Airbus has kicked off a new drone delivery trial in which its Skyways drone will deposit packages onto ships anchored offshore. It's hoped the technology now being tested in Singapore will speed up delivery times, and offer a greener and safer way of doing business in busy ports.
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We've already heard how batteries that are built into the structure of items – such as cars or satellites – could help extend run times without increasing bulk. Now, the flight time of a drone has been almost doubled, thanks to such "structural batteries."
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Because fixed-wing drones are more energy-efficient than multicopters, they're often used for tasks such as mapping the ocean. Many of them require landing strips, however, which there isn't always room for on ships. A new technique gets around that problem, using copters to catch them.
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Architects have long embedded geometrical patterns into their designs that lay hidden from the view of us ground-dwelling humans. In this gallery we feature some of the most spectacular secret symmetries uncovered through modern drone photography.
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How much better could drones be if you got rid of fiddly hand controllers and flew them with your mind? That's the question EEGSmart asks with this quad, which responds to brainwaves and head movements instead of thumbsticks. It's not perfect, but it gives a glimpse of a mind-controlled future.
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The Kratos XQ-58A Valkyrie combat drone demonstrator has completed its maiden flight at the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. In a statement released today, Kratos said that the unmanned Valkyrie met all of its test objectives during its 76-minute flight.
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Although drones have already been used to count animals such as seals, doing so isn't that difficult, as the creatures typically lie right out in the open. Now, however, scientists have used the aircraft to count koalas that are hidden in amongst the leaves and branches of eucalyptus trees.
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Kalashnikov is undoubtedly best known for its AK-47, but these days the Russian manufacturing giant has its fingers in all sorts of pies. The latest of its future-focused projects is a sacrificial military drone designed crash into the ground, taking targets down remotely on impact.
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NASA has been developing a solution to drone traffic over the past four years, and is now moving ahead with its final phase of testing where unmanned aircraft will put through their most complex demonstrations yet.
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According to Latvian entrepreneur Elviss Straupenieks, it costs about US$65,000 a year to pesticide-spray an average-size vineyard using a helicopter. His alternative? Well, he claims that his company's AirBoard Agro drone can do it for half as much – plus it offers a few other advantages.
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