drones
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US Police Deploy ‘Pandemic Drone’ To Detect Fevers And Enforce Social Distancing
U.S. police in Westport, Connecticut, announced this week that they’re testing a so-called “pandemic drone” that can detect when people on the ground have fevers. The new drone platform will also be used to determine when people are closer than 1.8 metres to each other. Police will be able to deliver a verbal warning through…
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WA Police Is Using Drones To Enforce Social Distancing
Western Australia has begun utilising police drones to enforce the government’s strict new social distancing rules. The drones will monitor the streets and deliver loud warnings to people not abiding by the restrictions.
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This Egg Is Actually One Of The Most Powerful Drones You Can Buy For $2,699
You don’t have the chance to review an egg-shaped drone every day. The PowerVision PowerEgg X is exactly that: a powerful quadcopter that resembles an ostrich egg when folded. Although at first, I suffered the natural consequences associated with roughly underdeveloped software, things have changed quite a bit. With each new firmware update, the PowerEgg X…
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China Using Drones In Increasingly Dystopian Ways To Combat Coronavirus Outbreak
Authorities in China have deployed drones to combat the spread of coronavirus in a variety of ways since the outbreak began, including disinfectant drones and drones that fly around with a loudspeaker to tell people they should keep their masks on. But there’s another way that police in China have started to use drones, and…