After breaking out of a second South Carolina prison, Jimmy Causey was captured Friday morning near Austin, Texas. Authorities suspect he also used a cellphone to beat maximum-security measures.
AED-carrying drones beat ambulance times to the sites of previous cardiac arrest cases in a rural area of Sweden, a study finds. But this has yet to be tried in real emergencies.
INDIAN SPRINGS, Nev. (AP) — Seven protesters were arrested outside a U.S. Air Force base in Nevada during a protest against military use of drones in attacks overseas.
Drone pilots and intelligence analysts who work with them may not be in physical danger themselves but "no doubt are war fighters" who experience psychological stress, says the Air Force.
DARPA, the Pentagon's R&D agency, is working with partners to develop low-cost gliders that travel about 100 miles and disappear within hours. The vehicles could have humanitarian and military uses.
Sure they might be chubby — to put it charitably — but they're still tigers. And when Chinese zookeepers mobilized a drone to get them some exercise, the big cats had little trouble bringing it down.
You may have heard of drone racing, but people keep coming up with new ways to enjoy these flying machines. A Latvian firm has developed a drone to pull snowboarders in a sport called "droneboarding."
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Nevada officials are taking another step to boost a fledgling unmanned aerial vehicle testing industry, with the development of a drone testing facility adjacent to a state college campus in Henderson.
"You can't protect what you can't map," says Patrick Meier. He pioneered the field of crisis mapping during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and now focuses on the use of robotics for humanitarian purposes.
Doctors, hospitals and entrepreneurs say drones could become a faster, cheaper way to deliver medical tests. But there are a lot of details to be worked out before your blood test hits the runway.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the drone has become America's go-to weapon when it comes to tracking and killing extremists. But drones have raised many legal, moral and ethical issues.
The soaring number of drones for hire is forecast in response to new federal rules that simplify and streamline the process of getting government approval and certification.
The University of Nebraska is developing a fire-starting drone, adapting a flaming ping pong ball technique already used in wildfire management. They hope to help teams conduct safer prescribed burns.
Utah's governor has signed into law a measure that makes the state the first to let authorities jam drone signals and crash the devices specifically for flying too close to wildfires.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials in Nevada say they see broad horizons for the unmanned aerial systems industry following the recent posting of federal aviation rules designed for small drone aircraft.
Utah's governor is calling for harsher penalties for anyone caught flying a drone over a wildfire after one unmanned aircraft forced firefighters to ground their aircraft last week.
