According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), around 1 million drones have been registered in US. With the growing interest in the UAV industry people are turning drone hobby into a business. Here's a guide on how to pursue a business in this sector - The very first step is to participate in an aeronautical training program and prepare for the Remote Pilot Certificate. All the legal formalities are crucial for the success of the business. "The first consideration is whether to organize into an LLC or a corporation," said Dr. Sarah Nilsson, Assistant Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

Drones, providing a bird's eye view, keep on innovating and offering something new. The sensor-carrying drones are a hot buzz these days. The new hardware and software that can coordinate sensor carrying drones would help in evaluating local atmospheric conditions, measuring electronic signals, and mapping the areas. "The system is designed to be application-agnostic in the sense that you can use our APIs and libraries to build any kind of autonomous solution that you want," says Kevin Lin, an engineering student of Rice University. The team with the engineers developed a platform that can carry out a wide range of sensing tasks on its own.

The US Army recently announced that it is developing the first drones that can spot and target vehicles and people using artificial intelligence (AI). This is a big step forward. Whereas current military drones are still controlled by people, this new technology will decide who to kill with almost no human involvement. Once complete, these drones will represent the ultimate militarization of AI and trigger vast legal and ethical implications for wider society. There is a chance that warfare will move from fighting to extermination, losing any semblance of humanity in the process.

Starship Technologies, a delivery robot startup founded in 2015 by two Skype co-founders, is launching its autonomous delivery service at corporate and academic campuses in Europe and the US. For the last three months, Starship's six-wheeled robots have been delivering food and office supplies around software company Intuit's 4.3-acre campus in Mountain View, California. Ahti Heinla, Starship CEO, CTO and co-founder, tells The Robot Report that Starship expects to scale this service to "hundreds of campuses" and about 1,000 robots by the end of 2018. There are 10 delivery robots that Compass pays for by the month. Heinla said Intuit's employees don't pay extra when they order food or supplies via the Starship app.

Drones have been used in various fields and provided with a total different view of the world. Two of the Morton County Sheriff's Deputies have been licensed to fly a drone. After months of studies and training, these two deputies were granted permission to deploy the UAV. "It's a lot easier to see things from the sky, you if somebody's out in the woods here, seeing them from here would be really difficult," said Corporal Josh Selle. "Even walking the shoreline sometimes becomes dangerous, and in a situation like this we can check lot bigger areas, a lot quicker," said Morton County Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier.

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's) can move over large areas, identifying damages, and also helps in surveying and rescuing. Researchers from Graz University of Technology, in Syria, Austria have something innovative to do with the drones. They want to change the way we interface with drones. HoloLens, a Microsoft's mixed reality head-mounted display, when combined with drones can create a X-ray vision, enabling us to see straight through walls, and placing the drone where one want it to be. To test the system, the researchers set up a study where participants were asked to perform the remote tasks like reading text on a monitor through the drone's camera.

Self-driving delivery vehicles that are polite to pedestrians? JD.com, the largest challenger to Alibaba's e-commerce empire in China, is investing in technology to speed up warehouse operations and delivery to shoppers who want service quickly. In China, it's testing drone delivery, has opened an automated warehouse that's improved on manual sorting, and it's testing deliveries using unmanned vehicles at universities in Beijing. It also uses these self-driving vehicles that look like rolling ice cream carts to move goods inside its warehouses. Though it does not sell in the United States, the Beijing-based online retailer is also leaning on its 2-year-old research and development lab in Silicon Valley to recruit top talent and get access to tech startups.

Many of the world's leading aircraft makers are in Germany for the ILA Berlin Air Show, with the focus this year on drone technology. Its development is helping spark a revolution in sustainable flight.

Sharks and a saltwater crocodile went on a feeding frenzy about a mile off the coast of Western Australia. Sharks and a saltwater crocodile went on a feeding frenzy about a mile off the coast of Western Australia -- and the "rare" event was caught on tape. A drone captured the predators feasting side-by-side on a 16-foot hump-back whale carcass floating near a sandbar off Montgomery Reef. It was the first time sharks and a croc had been documented foraging together. Dr. Austin Gallagher, chief scientist and CEO of Beneath the Waves, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization working to protect the world's oceans, says he's been studying sharks for more than a decade but he'd never seen anything quite like this.

Google leads the pack in applying for AI patents, and Microsoft is the most prolific in filing for patents, but the race is on in AR/VR, cybersecurity, autonomous vehicles, and more. It's no exaggeration to say these five companies are racing to own the future. Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft are not just the most valuable companies in technology. They're also driving innovation that will have massive impacts on business and society. Trends like autonomous vehicles and AI are still in their infancy and have the potential transform our lives. But how deeply is each company involved in pushing the boundaries in these areas? Where can we go to learn what tech they're prioritizing and where the next bleeding-edge innovations will come from?