Drones

Some City Council members say they’d like to see more community input before police finalize their policy on using drones, after two meetings were held and 10 people attended one while none went to the other.

Santa Clara County, Calif., is turning to drones to spray larvicide in non-residential areas. Recent wet weather has created the ideal conditions for a booming year for mosquitos and vector-borne diseases.

State lawmakers are assigning $25 million to help police departments replace their drone fleets after Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration forced local governments to stop using drone technology made in China.

In what sounds like the start of a bad sci-fi movie, one company has added new processing capabilities to Spot that will make the robot dog easier to manage with a natural voice interface.

Emergency service providers in Pennsylvania have pooled their resources in order to provide drone and unmanned services to other agencies upon request. The task force is dispatched as if they are responding with a firetruck.

Privacy and due-process concerns will always be a potential concern, but when used properly, drones give law enforcement a nimble, low-cost way to serve and protect law-abiding citizens.

Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD announced the new technological upgrades that will be coming to the police department, including a GPS tag system that tracks a vehicle's location remotely, and a robot K-9 that can be used in high-risk situations.

Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using drones to drop loads of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, tobacco and cellphones into the yards of seven prisons across California.

Portland police plan to start using drones in a yearlong pilot to document crash scenes, watch traffic, respond to bomb threats, help in searches and respond to disasters like building collapses.

Millions of dollars in government aerial drones will be shelved under a rule that prevents agencies in the state from using drones manufactured by China-based Da Jiang Innovations.

One day in December, Karen Hsu took her family’s Shiba Inu on a walk around her neighborhood, during which the dog ran off. For the next 24 hours, they searched and searched with no luck.

Officers with the Chico Police Department used a drone to make an arrest Friday when a man allegedly ran away from officers and into the brush near Little Chico Creek.

So-called “TASER drones” have been proposed as one way to secure schools. An interview with the CEO of public safety tech vendor Axon illustrates how the situation is more complicated than deploying armed robots.

The San Antonio-based startup company Darkhive last year won $1 million in pre-seed funding as it shopped around small, 3D-printed drones.

The Chula Vista Police Department has been leveraging a fleet of 29 unmanned aerial systems — also known as drones — to patrol the city 10 hours a day, seven days a week from four launch sites.

The advanced drones used by the team in James City County can provide officers with a bird’s-eye view of everything from crime scenes and traffic pursuits to help searches for missing persons.

While the vast majority of the transportation $3.7B budget covers roads and bridges, it also includes smaller pots of funding for public transit, electric vehicle infrastructure and drone development, among others.

Drones are playing an integral part in keeping birds away from dangerous power lines by placing robotic bird diverters on the lines. Some 1,500 new bird diverters have been launched to protect Atlantic City Electric infrastructure.