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Drones (non-military)

June 2024

  • A screen shot of drone vision taken off Bondi beach where a whale swims close to a person

    Low-flying drones could disrupt whale migration off Australia’s east coast, experts warn

    In high-density places such as Sydney many drones may hover over an animal at once, amplifying disturbance pressure

April 2024

  • A drone flying near an airport runway. Photograph: Alexandre Rotenberg/Alamy

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: The mystery of the Gatwick drone – podcast

    This week, from 2020: A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the Sussex sky? By Samira Shackle

March 2024

  • A Sea Shepherd thermal drone monitors the Vaquita Refuge in the Sea of Cortez, in an ongoing operation to defend the world’s most endangered marine mammal from illegal fishing. Photo Credit: Eli Hausman, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society If you need more context, you could add that the drone was launched from one of our sentry ships, The Seahorse, which is present in the Vaquita Refuge nearly 24/7 with the cooperation of the Mexican Government.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Eyes in the sky: why drones are ‘beyond effective’ for animal rights campaigners around the world

  • Officers from Devon & Cornwall police fly a drone.

    Hunt announces funds for police to use drones as ‘first responders’

February 2024

  • Polar bear on sea ice, Repulse Bay, Nunavut, Canada

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    Pumped up: will a Dutch startup’s plan to restore Arctic sea-ice work?

    As the Arctic warms, devastating the climate and ecosystems, an old idea used to create skating rinks could be deployed to restore melting ice caps, despite scepticism from some experts
  • A drone delivers medical supplies to a hospital in Tokyo

    Drones could deliver medical supplies under UK travel watchdog plans

    CAA proposes allowing operators to fly drones at low heights beyond the line of sight
  • Windracer Ultra UAV at Rothera Research Station

    Pilotless drones being tested in Antarctica for use in scientific research

    If tests are successful, Windracers Ultra UAV will be used for research such as surveying marine ecosystems and studying glaciers

October 2023

  • Miniature drone equipped with camera in flight

    Drones to be banned from flying near prisons in England and Wales

    Change means drone operators could face fines up to £2,500 for flying within 400 metres of prisons or young offender institutions
  • drone carrying package illustration

    Sky’s not the limit: is the drone delivery age finally taking off?

    As Amazon announces it is expanding its drone delivery service to the UK and Italy, other companies are jostling to gain altitude with ultra-fast shipping
  • Amazon MK30 Drone portraits - BFI1 - Sumner WA - 11 Oct 2023<br>The new MK30 Prime Air drone at the BFI1 Amazon Fulfillment Center in Sumner, Washington, USA, on Wed., Oct. 11, 2023.

    Amazon unveils plan to deliver packages by drone in UK and Italy

    US tech giant reveals new generation of drones at Seattle HQ but declines to comment on where in each country they will launch first

September 2023

  • The drone built by Mohamad Al Bared.

    Birmingham PhD student guilty of using 3D printer to build ‘kamikaze’ drone

    Mohamad al-Bared used technology at Coventry home to make drone designed to deliver a warhead or chemical weapon for IS

August 2023

  • Time-lapse photograph of two drones racing around a race course

    AI-powered drone beats human champion pilots

    Swift AI used technique called deep reinforcement learning to win 15 out of 25 races against world champions

July 2023

  • Brisbane’s Story Bridge

    Brisbane Olympics drone show cancelled after hundreds fall into Melbourne river during Matildas display

    Event marking nine years until Olympics and Paralympics stopped after 350 drones fell into Yarra River on Friday

June 2023

  • A person operating a large drone beside rows of tea plants

    Africa will be transformed by the potential of AI and data – if we can get investment

    Mahamudu Bawumia
    As tech changes the world, Ghana has the young experts to unlock the next industrial revolution, says the vice-president

May 2023

  • A key challenge was to distinguish between birds and drones, said one expert.

    Drone flights banned in central London for King Charles coronation

    Among sweeping security measures, police expected to use radar to detect rogue objects in the air

April 2023

  • John Naughton

    The networker
    Thank the Lords someone is worried about AI-controlled weapons systems

    John Naughton
    While politics as usual dominates the Commons, thankfully a few people from the upper chamber are thinking about the big picture

February 2023

  • Droning on … Red Bluff, Montana

    Getting high: a drone’s-eye view of the United States – in pictures

    During the long periods of pandemic isolation, Stephen Shore rose to the challenge – and shot the arresting US landscape from way up above

December 2022

  • A Wing drone delivery for Guardian Australia arrives in the Canberra suburb of Mitchell

    After years of fanfare the future of drone delivery in Australia remains up in the air

  • Will drone deliveries be widely available in Australia soon? – video

November 2022

  • An intentionally lit controlled fire burns intensely near Tomerong, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020, in an effort to contain a larger fire nearby. Around 2,300 firefighters in New South Wales state were making the most of relatively benign conditions by frantically consolidating containment lines around more than 110 blazes and patrolling for lightning strikes, state Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

    Send in the drones: how to transform Australia’s fight against bushfires and floods

    The cutting-edge technology is a faster, cheaper and more accurate way to raise the alarm on lightning strikes or flash floods, experts say
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