China wants to be a step ahead from the US in the military UAV sphere. According to the reports, 'China's military drone programme is lifting up and moving to the next level,' says Chinese drone engineers. The innovative developments would include fleets of UAV's, boosting up the Chinese naval capabilities and swarm-intelligence systems that coordinates or integrates the operation between drones and other military aircraft. CH-5, also known as Rainbow-5, is one of the most advanced drone specimen that was first tested in 2015. This craft can fly up to 60 hours and has a 4000-mile range and the future enhancement of this UAV is expected to extend the range to 6000 miles.

Artificial intelligence technologies aren't just being used to help computers more quickly recognize dogs in photos. Several businesses like Mastercard and fast-growing drone companies are exploring ways that AI technologies like machine learning can better verify people's identities and process insurance claims. Executives from companies like ride-hailing company Lyft and German energy company Innogy, a subsidiary of energy giant RWE, explained different ways they are exploring AI technologies on Thursday at the Bootstrap Labs Applied AI Conference in San Francisco. Here's some interesting ways these businesses are using the technology. During the past few years, insurance companies like Allstate have been using drones to inspect homes for storm damage.

Anti-drone technology isn't just being used at airports or sensitive political and military locations. Law enforcement just relied on DroneShield's systems, including its anti-drone gun, to protect against UAVs during a NASCAR race series at the Texas Motor Speedway between April 5th and April 8th. The tech helped police watch out for drones, disable them and (if all else failed) knock them out of the air. There weren't any known incidents, but it's notable that the technology was involved in the first place -- it was the first time American law enforcers used all three of DroneShield's products. The company is also keen to tout that it's the "sole provider" of counter-drone hardware for NASCAR.

Robots make fantastic remote-sensing systems, ideal for sending in to disaster areas or for search-and-rescue. Drones in particular can move rapidly over large areas or through structures, identifying damage or looking for survivors by sending a video feed from their on-board cameras to a remote operator. While the data that drones provide can be invaluable, managing them can be quite difficult, especially once they get beyond line-of-sight. Researchers from Graz University of Technology, in Styria, Austria, led by Okan Erat, want to change the way we interface with drones, using augmented reality to turn them from complicated flying robots into remote cameras that an untrained user can easily control. Through a HoloLens--Microsoft's mixed reality head-mounted display--a drone can enable a sort of X-ray vision, allowing you to see straight through walls and making controlling the drone as easy as grabbing a virtual drone and putting it exactly where you want it to be.

The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is getting serious about using group of drones as a way to complement traditional ground forces. Be it in the area of sensors, control or propulsion, the military is looking forward to creative ideas to innovate the drone technology. The ultimate aim of the drone units will vary from each mission and revolve around the concept of objectives within urban environment. "As operations in urban environments continue to evolve, our warfighters need advanced capabilities to keep up with the ever-changing complexity of the urban scenario, and focus on enhancing autonomy in operational contexts will further advance future swarming capabilities to defeat the opponents in complex urban environments," said DARPA's Timothy Chung. Drones have seen a lot of expansion in commercial areas and major of the companies are making use of drones to work efficiently and smartly.

Taylor Mitcham, the drone-lover, flies drone as a full-time business and encourage others know about this technology. Mitcham recalled how she entered in the drone business, the inspection of the construction site was all that got drones into the use. Mitcham mentioned that the experiment with drones monitoring construction activity was a resounding success. "She focuses on the benefits that drones deliver, including the capability to gather information that can increase operation efficiency." She started an online community of drone pilots that serves as platform for discussion, exchange of ideas and information.

Zipline, a California-based startup, states that their new fixed-wing drone is capable to fly 100 miles a time, can hit 80 mph, and carry 3.8 pounds. This innovated drone have shown improvements in technology, earlier it was only capable of 68mph and now can travel much quicker and get urgent supplies to where they need to go faster. The motive behind this innovation was that drones will aid people in remote areas to have access to essential medical supplies in a couple of minutes. Moreover, all this occurs within 30 minutes and it can be operated in all weather conditions.

SenseFly collaborated with Trimble to integrate the drone solutions and make the work easier and efficient. SenseFly is a producer of professional drone solution and recently launched eMotion 3.5 software. "Making work easier and more efficient for geospatial professionals is the goal that drives every solution we develop," says Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Co-founder and CEO of SenseFly. They also stated that they are excited for the collaboration with Trimble for the solution integration. "Enhancements such as new eMotion-to-Trimble Business Centre workflow do exactly that, ensuring that the transition from data collection to acting upon this data is as seamless as possible," stated SenseFly.

"The air force announced the execution of air strikes with the Qasif 1 aircraft on Aramco in Jizan (province)," the channel said on its official Twitter account, referring to a drone the Houthis had previously unveiled.

Drones have a very important job in inspection and surveying in high-risk environments like mines and construction sites. In such works, danger is everywhere and UAV's are helping a lot to gather data and images without stepping foot in areas full of natural and manmade hazards. Talking about the mining industry, employees use drones to improve workflows and reduce injuries and deaths. With the emerging UAV industry, the operators need to be well educated of its usage, and help the employees see drones as useful addition to their daily workflow. Deployment of drone has taken business to a new height.