With rotors whirring and airframes hurling through the air, drones can be very dangerous when flights don't go as planned. There's been much teeth gnashing over the FAA's measured approach to ...

In the early days of the consumer drone industry, drones were far less reliable than they are today. Many of the drones I flew around 2015 felt like they were fighting your commands every step of the ...

AUSTIN, Texas—Because GPS can be spoofed or jammed in combat, one geospatial intelligence company developed a drone-navigation system based on 3D maps. Peter Wilczynski, Maxar’s chief product officer, ...

Maxar Intelligence developed software that enables an autonomous system to navigate with precision even without GPS. The green line represents the drone’s true location in the real world on a specific ...

Which hand-controlled drones are best? There’s a small space between drone toys and fully remote-controlled drones. This is where hand-controlled drones come in. Most hand-controlled drones respond to ...

A recent academic paper out of China proposes a new method for controlling drones and steering them to targets in environments where GPS is under attack, a new sign of the growing importance of drones ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Sample image of an Axon drone. The New Haven Police Department is planning to acquire two drones ...

Drones can now fly and hit targets without GPS or operator input, The Economist reported. Russia and Ukraine are in a drone and electronic warfare arms race. Ukraine's special forces have developed ...