This photo taken March 26, 2013, shows flight test pilot Alex Gustafson carrying an InsituScanEagle unmanned aircraft in preparation for a flight in A...
AP
drones

Should FBI manhunts use drones? US lawmakers debate

MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicles sit in a clamshell at night at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, July 31, 2011.
U.S. Air Force
innovation

Drone pilot burnout triggers call for recruiting overhaul

130514-N-ZZ999-004 ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 14, 2013) An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator launches from the aircraft carrier USS George...
U.S. Navy
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Navy's X-47B drone completes first carrier takeoff 

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The first fly-in arrested landing by the X-47B unmanned demonstrator represents the first arrested landing by an unmanned aircraft. During an arrested landing, an aircraft extends its landing hook to catch a heavy cable extended across the landing area. The tension in the wire brings the aircraft to a rapid and controlled stop.
Northrop Grumman Corp.
drones

Navy's X-47B drone makes first carrier-style landing

Oerlikon Skyshield Air Defence System
Rheinmetall Air Defence AG
robots

Activists, UN put 'killer robots' in the crosshairs

A 9th Attack Squadron MQ-9 Reaper pilot, left, and 49th Operations Group MQ-9 sensor operator fly an MQ-9 Reaper training mission from a ground control station on Holloman Air Force Base, N.M.
U.S. Air Force
drones

In the virtual cockpit: What it takes to fly a drone

The DraganFlyer X6 is used by law enforcement in Mesa County, Colorado.
DraganFly Innovations
drones

Bloomberg to NYC: Domestic drones are inevitable

The SWAT team from sheriff’s department in Montgomery County, Texas, is sometimes accompanied by a 50-pound ShadowHawk helicopter drone.
Vanguard Defense via AP
drones

The drones are coming ... but our laws aren't ready

The remains of a Predator B, "Reaper" drone, sprinkled across the Arizona mountainside.
National Transportation Safety Board
drones

Drones crash (a lot) but the military's safety lessons may help civilians

Argus illo
Nova / YouTube
Photography

ARGUS drone spots you from 20,000 feet — with camera-phone sensors

Drone from University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
drones

Celebrities safe from roving paparazzi drones ... for now

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DARPA
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drones

Tests show military drones could refuel themselves mid-air

Eye-bot
Fraunhofer IMS
drones

Hovering drones flock together using 3-D vision