7 subtle ways design will change how you travel this year

Traffic drones, AI-powered airports, grocery-delivering robots: Design and technology are quietly reshaping how people and goods move around the world.

Your drone is out to get you (in this horror movie trailer; probably not in real life)

Shutting down London’s Gatwick Airport with drones turned out to be alarmingly easy

Inspecting bridges is hard and dangerous. Send in the drones

A new project from Intel used drones to map every inch of a bridge–without having to shut down traffic or send workers rappelling off the sides.

What American inequality looks like from above

Homeless encampments, glassy offices, RVs, and tech buses.

Bird-herding drones could make air travel even safer for people and birds

Asimov’s 3 laws of robotics, updated for the drone age

Drones are coming. Here are three principles for incorporating drones into public life ethically.

Report: Hacker sold sensitive MQ-9 Reaper drone documents on the Dark Web

This dragon drone is the stuff of techno nightmares

The U.S. is opening prime urban sky to commercial drones

An online system called LAANC is cutting FAA permitting time for commercial drone missions from months to seconds.

In a first, NASA’s Predator drone flew solo in US commercial airspace

Indigenous people in the Amazon are using drones to save their land

As logging and palm oil industries continue to decimate the Amazonian rainforest, the people who live in it are taking tech into their own hands to fight back.

Watch this drone use AI to spot violence in crowds from the sky

Researchers say the technology can spot stabbings, shootings, and brawls but civil libertarians have warned that software like it is error-prone and could lead to mass surveillance.

Finally a good use for drones—hands-free umbrellas

This drone can shoot video of your car on the go

Flying drones legally gets easier in much of the U.S. today

Don’t be afraid of these hallucinating MIT drones

MIT is using simulated environments that can train drones to deal with real-world obstacles without having to put lives or property at risk.

Google employees resign over controversial Pentagon drone AI project

Microsoft and DJI are teaming up to let Windows 10 machines control drones