A week before the start of the PGA Championship, there was a drone flyover, and it was streamed live on Facebook so fans could see the front nine holes at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C. The drone took off two days earlier than expected, but once raindrops could be seen on the camera, the […]
The Secret Service announced Wednesday it would conduct a test to evaluate a tethered drone during President Donald Trump’s scheduled visit later this month to his residence at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. The primary purpose of using a tethered drone is to provide sustained situational awareness and improve the Secret Service’s […]
A mischievous soccer fan in Argentina took aim at a drone flown by the soccer team Gimnasia de Mendoza during a match and successfully brought down the quadcopter with a roll of paper over the weekend. Team press officer Yamila Correa tweeted Monday that the drone belonged to the team. According to Mendoza-based newspaper Diario […]
Japanese telecommunications company NTT DOCOMO has created the first drone capable of displaying LED images on a spherical screen during flight. While drones are currently used in a variety of fields, the company hopes to use its new innovation at sporting events and concerts as well as during emergency situations. “We are thinking about using it, for […]
Aaron Gordon’s 2017 Slam Dunk Contest didn’t go exactly as planned — he didn’t progress past the first round of competition — but the engineers who helped create one of the night’s most memorable moments had a far better experience. Gordon and robotics engineering company L.A. Drones, in partnership with Intel, pulled off a first […]
