Americans know their government uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, on military and intelligence missions from surveillance to assassination. But drones are no longer the sole domain of ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to revamp America’s military must confront a key question about the future of warfare: as drones continue becoming cheaper and smarter, should the U.S. abandon large ...

Drones are already reshaping our lives — in surveillance, in photography and especially in war. One Times reporter recently ...

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When it comes to drone technology, specialization seems to be one of the most common approaches for development. For example, some drones are designed to go extremely fast, others to have a very long ...

Inspired by the way birds and bats navigate complex environments, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts are developing sound-based navigation for small aerial robots.

Flying a drone over a private home in Ohio is generally legal if it follows Federal Aviation Administration rules. Federal law allows drones to fly below 400 feet, but state privacy and harassment ...

The FAA refers to drones as "small unmanned aircraft systems," or UAS. Shooting down a hovering drone is illegal in Connecticut and nationwide, the FAA says. Connecticut legislators have passed a few ...