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When Jeff Bezos unveiled his vision of drones delivering packages to Amazon customers during a60 Minutessegment in late 2013, it caught many people as science fiction. Scarcely two years later, drones are poised to become a technology for not just delivering packages, but monitoring agriculture, gathering news in urban environments and even conducting search and rescue missions.

Over the last few years there has been a marked increase in the uses for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones. Far from being the domain of the high-tech military application, UAVs are now being employed to fulfil a weird and wonderful array of functions, from the planned delivery services for Amazon and Google, to assisting withindustrial scale reforestation in Latin Americaandshark detecting in New South Wales, Australia.

Sixteen student teams from around the UK and one Egyptian team are to design and build an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), also known as a drone, as part of an annual competition run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

Vehicles are electrifying at a breakneck speed and they are being completely reinvented with developments in many components and systems. Disruptive change and significant technological innovation is now being seen across all forms of electric vehicles for land, water and air. The fruits of all this are spectacular – from the vehicles themselves to over $500bn market opportunity that will be created by 2026. IDTechEx Research analyses and f...

The Raspberry Pi product family has a new baby. element14 has launched the Raspberry Pi Zero, the smallest form factor Raspberry Pi on the market. The ultra-slim board is only 65mm long by 30mm wide and 5mm deep.To save space and reduce cost there is one Micro USB data port and a Mini HDMI port which supports full HD 1080P output.

The TV and movie buffs out there will be all-too-familiar with the threat (if an albeit exaggerated one), of dipping your toe in the water in certain parts of the world. However, beach goers in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, can rest easier in their flip-flops after an innovative new project was announced to monitor the state’s coastline against shark attack using state of the art technology.

An exciting new joint venture has been announced between drone training solutions provider, UAV-Air, and Rigg-Access, to introduce drone training solutions to the survey industry.

Autonomous driving continues to be one of the most widespread research and development activities within the global automotive industry, as automakers and technology companies alike strive to put advancements into production and implement them for on-road testing and approvals.

A recent study from Juniper Research has found that reduced component cost, increased competition and a greater number of use cases will together push the number of consumer drones shipped globally to more than 20m per annum, up from less than 4m this year.

Near collisions with commercial aircraft and numerous other incidents involving Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS), commonly known as drones, have become major problems for regulators and the emerging drone industry. Recent examples include drones disrupting the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, drones interfering with fire fighters in California and drones being used to smuggle contraband into U.S. prisons. All received widespread n...