For residents of Kosuge, an idyllic village nestled in a valley deep in the mountains of Yamanashi Prefecture, fast food is a luxury. There aren't any convenience stores or supermarkets in the tiny community, let alone a McDonald's. So when Aeronext Inc. celebrated its 100th on-demand drone delivery in Kosuge in July, the startup treated villagers to fast food chain Yoshinoya Co.'s signature gyūdon beef bowls -- steamed rice topped with thinly sliced beef and simmered onions. Amid a small crowd of curious onlookers, hot meals prepared in a Yoshinoya kitchen car were hauled onto spider-like drones that took off in regular intervals to several drop-off stations dotted around the village. For those who got to savor the dish, it was a taste of the city delivered by air, and a glimpse of a future in which these flying devices could become an essential part of rural life.

If you follow autonomous drone racing, you likely remember the crashes as much as the wins. In drone racing, teams compete to see which vehicle is better trained to fly fastest through an obstacle course. But the faster drones fly, the more unstable they become, and at high speeds their aerodynamics can be too complicated to predict. Crashes, therefore, are a common and often spectacular occurrence. But if they can be pushed to be faster and more nimble, drones could be put to use in time-critical operations beyond the race course, for instance to search for survivors in a natural disaster.

New York (CNN Business)Amazon's vision for the future of home security includes drones flying over your roof, outdoor cameras that monitor for possible trespassers and cute robots patrolling indoors. During an invite-only press conference on Tuesday, the company showed off an autonomous, 20-pound dog-like robot named Astro with large, cartoon-y eyes on its tablet face and a cup holder. The robot -- not unlike an Alexa on wheels -- uses voice-recognition software, cameras, artificial intelligence, mapping technology and voice- and face-recognition sensors as it zooms from room to room, capturing live video and learning your habits. Amazon also announced a subscription service called Virtual Security Guard for Ring cameras. Ring, the smart doorbell and camera company it acquired in 2018 for $1 billion, will work with third-party professional monitoring companies, such as Rapid Response, to analyze a live feed from its outdoor cameras.

Aerospace firm Airbus has completed two 18-day stratospheric flights of its solar-powered aircraft, called Zephyr, 76,100 feet above the Earth. Zephyr's solar powered test flights in the stratosphere – the second layer of the Earth's atmosphere – set a new world record for altitude this summer, Airbus says. The firm now wants to deploy the'high altitude pseudo-satellite' (HAPS) for surveillance and beaming broadband down to remote areas that don't have internet. Zephyr, an UAV with two small propellers, is powered exclusively by the Sun, thanks to solar panels lining its whole 82-foot wingspan. It's typically hand-launched by four to five ground crew, fast-walking or jogging into a light wind, but it features on-board software for remote navigation.

ABSTRACT Assessing collision risk is a critical challenge to effective traffic safety management. The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to address this issue has shown much promise, given their wide visual field and movement flexibility. This research demonstrates the application of UAVs and V2X connectivity to track the movement of road users and assess potential collisions at intersections. The study uses videos captured by UAVs. The proposed method combines deeplearning based tracking algorithms and time-to-collision tasks. The results not only provide beneficial information for vehicle's recognition of potential crashes and motion planning but also provided a valuable tool for urban road agencies and safety management engineers. INTRODUCTION It has been prognosticated that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will play a vital role in various application or context areas of transportation systems management. This is motivated by the success of UAVs in other domains including photography, photogrammetry, agriculture, terrain mapping, monitoring, disaster relief and rescue operations, and recreational purposes (1). Due to these applications, the emerging global market for drone-enabled services has been valued by the 2016 Middle East and North Africa Business Report at over $127B (2).

Paul Dabill captured stunning drone footage of a school of fish swimming in a heart-shaped formation in Palm Beach, Florida. These Palm Beach fish deserve a gold medal in artistic swimming. Take a look at this school of Crevalle jack fish that were spotted swimming in a heart-shaped formation right off the shores of Juno Beach, according to South West News Service (SWNS). FLORIDA FISHERMEN CATCH A WARSAW GROUPER THAT WAS BIGGER THAN A MAN: 'IT WAS A MONSTER' The stunning footage was captured by Paul Dabill, who reportedly took his DJI Mavic Air 2 drone out for a spin Tuesday morning. Restaurant owner Paul Dabill captured stunning aerial drone footage of a school of fish swimming in a heart-shaped formation on Oct. 5, 2021.

The world's first recorded case of an autonomous drone attacking humans took place in March 2020, according to a United Nations (UN) security report detailing the ongoing Second Libyan Civil War. Libyan forces used the Turkish-made drones to "hunt down" and jam retreating enemy forces, preventing them from using their own drones. The field report (via New Scientist) describes how the Haftar Affiliated Forces (HAF), loyal to Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, came under attack by drones from the rival Government of National Accord (GNA) forces. After a successful drive against HAF forces, the GNA launched drone attacks to press its advantage. The report says Turkey supplied the drones to Libyan forces, which is a violation of a UN arms embargo slapped on combatants in the conflict.

If you're ever lost in the woods (or on the lam), watch out for high-speed quadcopters following you through the trees. The drones can now fly through complex and unknown environments at up to 40kmph, thanks to a new AI approach developed at the University of Zurich. The quadcopter's flight lessons took place in a simulation. An algorithm first piloted a computer-generated drone through a simulated environment that contained complex obstacles. This data was used to train the drone's neural network to predict a flight path based on information from onboard sensors.

At least 10 people have been reported injured in an attack on an airport in Saudi Arabia's city of Jazan, near the border with Yemen. The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said the attack on Friday evening targeted the King Abdullah Airport. Citing a Saudi-led coalition spokesman, SPA said that the projectile was fired from a drone, shattering the airport's facade windows and causing injuries. Six Saudis, three Bangladeshi nationals and one Sudanese were among those who were injured, according to the Reuters news agency. At least five of the victims suffered only minor injuries, while the conditions of the five others were not immediately known.

Ukraine said it will build a factory to produce Turkish armed drones that Kyiv previously bought to use against pro-Russian separatists in the east, a deal that might upset Kyiv's adversary Moscow. "A land plot on which the factory will be built has already been chosen," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said at a news conference on Thursday with Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. "There were a number of obstacles to the implementation [of this project] but all of them have been removed," he added, without providing further details. Pleased to welcome my Turkish colleague and friend @MevlutCavusoglu in Lviv and expand our diplomatic geography. Cavusoglu did not speak specifically about the subject but stressed that Kyiv and Ankara were "in the process of strengthening their relations in many sectors", including defence.