A Chinese drone company breaks the Guinness World Record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles simultaneously airborne. Rough cut (no reporter narration). A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. A Chinese drone company breaks the Guinness World Record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles simultaneously airborne.

The Police Department are using the UAV's for a lot many reasons. Lately, the Fremont, Calif., Police Department deployed drones and K9 unit to track down the suspect who escaped a multiple times. As per the post on Facebook, the Fremont Police Department searched for the men, armed with a firearm. The residents observed him running through yards and jumping fences while still armed with gun. After running around for an hour, the members of the Street Crimes Unit discovered the location of the suspect at another address.

A white-bodied, red-winged, battery-powered glider with a 10-foot wingspan drone designed to deliver medical supplies had its successful test flight. The drone shoots along an inclined metal track, slingshotting the aircraft forward and into the air. Zipline, a drone-delivery start-up hopes that the Federal Aviation Administration gives them permission to start flying in number of different locations, including Nevada and North Carolina. "Our drones save Lives" this is the ultimate mission of Zipline. The team uses blood packs (filled with water) to test-drive their delivery drones.

The Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas said Thursday it will be leading a $7.5 million U.S. Department of Defense project to create artificial intelligence technology for military drones. UT researchers will try to develop AI that can help drones to more thoroughly learn information as they fly and to possibly maneuver themselves during emergency situations. Such technology, the school said, could help the defense department lower the number of drones lost due to system failures or damage while flying. Ufuk Topcu, an assistant professor at UT's Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, said developing the AI technology will be a challenge. "Our approach to this unprecedented challenge embraces the fact that developing truly autonomous systems -- in particular, control-oriented learning on the fly -- is beyond the reach of any single (scientific fields)," Topcu said in a written statement. It's not clear what the timeline is for the UT-led project.

Intel is becoming quite popular for its awesome drone light shows. The company doesn't make consumer drones but had made the events like Super Bowl and Olympics amazing with synchronized aerial drone shows. Lately, the Olympic drone shows flew 1218 drones in the air at one time. It also won a new Guinness World Records for the most drones flown simultaneously. Recently, it did another show, having a team of drones flying over headliner Odesza as the electronic music duo performed at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, Calif. "It's all with software," said Anil Nanduri, VP & GM of Intel's drone team.

If you look at the ground from above, you won't see the contour lines of a map from the U.S. Geological Service. You will see the trees, ground, dirt and other plant life. If you use a camera while looking down, things are different. The more sensitive the camera, the more you'll see. Sensitive cameras that catch images from above can begin to see patterns.

Visual intelligence firm Geospatial Insight, has raised £3.5 million from private equity company Foresight Williams and VenturesOne investments. The money will be used to improve its machine learning capabilities, boost its additional product streams and develop visual intelligence customer solutions. Geospatial, founded in 2012, aim to give corporations and governments accurate real time data to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems, such as crop shortages, deforestation and tracking greenhouse gas emissions by using satellites and drones. Their programme also aims to spot trends and gain insight into global events by bringing together data from satellites, drones and aircraft. Machine learning gives computers the ability to learn from repeated data patterns without being programmed.

So far, Agility Robotics has sold three Cassie robots (University of Michigan is a customer, for example) and has sales for another three in progress. The goal is to sell another six Cassie robots, "so optimistically 12 customers total for the entire production run of Cassie," Shelton tells CNBC Make It. "That is obviously, though, a relatively compact market, and is not why we're doing the company," says Shelton, in an interview with CNBC Make It. Indeed, the next generation of the company's legged robots will also have arms, says Shelton. And one target use for the more humanoid robot will be carrying packages from delivery trucks to your door. Shelton says his house is a perfect example of how a legged robot would assist in delivery.

On-demand robotic flying taxis and drone deliveries are years away from reality, but the U.S. Department of Transportation has removed at least one barrier to their operation. Responding to work by companies including Boeing Co., Intel Corp. and Uber Technologies Inc., the department on Friday said it would use the same process to consider approval of drone taxis that would carry passengers and cargo for hire as it does for approving traditional commercial air carriers. Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google unit are both developing drones to deliver products. Under U.S. law, the agency must certify that any business carrying people or cargo for hire is economically "fit, willing and able" to perform. Certifying an airline under those regulations can take years, but the DOT can exempt operators that are using smaller or mid-sized aircraft, it said in a notice set to be posted Monday in the Federal Register.

The French Government has designed a new law making it compulsory for the drones to be fitted with signalling lights. The proposal would mandate the installation of beacons on all unmanned aircraft. The proposed beacon would run on unlicensed spectrum allocation and the signalling message takes place in the payload part of Wi-fi frame including- the code for drone's manufacturer, drone's serial number, its latitude, longitude and altitude, its speed and timestamp. The light to be used must not contain the colours used for manned aviation, i.e. red, white, or green. The proposal especially signifies that a single beacon will be acceptable for a swarm of drones.