drones

Amazon made news by being the first to publicly contemplate delivering packages via drone, but based on Monday's announcement by Google, Amazon may not be the first to implement the idea. Google is hoping to be "up and running" with commercial delivery by 2017...

Previously in this space, I've posted different types of drone footage. Video of cities, sporting events, fireworks, and other things. I love that drones can record footage that, in some cases, was impossible to get before. Jaimen Hudson feels the same way...

I've gotta say, bionic butterflies are much cooler than drones. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty enthralled with the technological progressions we keep seeing in the world of drones, but this, the latest from The Bionic Learning Network, is nothing short of amazing...

As a kid, I loved Warner Brothers cartoons. In particular, I enjoyed the two shift-working sheep dogs ("Mornin' Ralph, Mornin' Sam...") who tag-team defeated the attempts at sheep theft by Wile E. Coyote. Well, if "Shep the Drone" takes off (in a marketing sense), those two dogs, and many others who share a similar vocation, may find themselves out of work...

Jim Anderson -- Illinois Radio Network State Farm is planning to use unmanned aircraft to examine insurance claims. State Farm says it's the first insurance company to receive an FAA permit to use drones. "Whenever there's a big catastrophe, or a big storm is another way to put it, we'll be able to use these devices to go up and inspect roofs...

Our digital director, Rob Carroll, steered me to a piece on the Curbed Chicago site, knowing about my interest in drone technology. The story talks a bit about a Chicago and St. Louis based contractor who recently received approval from the FAA to use drones to study potential construction sites in the Chicagoland area...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a piece called "Mother Nature Just Doesn't Like Drones." In that piece, I included a video of a guy's quadcopter drone being attacked and knocked out of the sky by an angry hawk. Someone who read that piece then sent me a video of an angry ram head-butting another drone to the ground...

Christopher Schmidt has a quadcopter UAV, or drone, equipped with a GoPro camera. A few days ago, he was flying it over a beach when...well, I'll let him explain:   On Oct 8th, I was flying my quadcopter at Magazine Beach Park in Cambridge, when a hawk decided he wasn't too happy with my invasion of his airspace... As ...

Okay. It's official. I want a drone. Take a look at this outstanding footage taken by Jos Stiglingh in West Palm Beach, Florida. Not content with ground based shots, Jos sent his camera-equipped drone into the skies to grab some amazing fireworks video that's been looked at millions of times....