Scientists have created an'ultra-precise' drone that can deliver packages directly to a person, rather than a location. The DelivAir drone uses GPS to navigate to a user's smartphone, updating its destination throughout its flight until it arrives within visual range. While it is currently still a concept, its designers believe that the drone could be used to deliver life-saving medical supplies in the future. Scientists have created an'ultra-precise' drone that can deliver packages directly to a person, rather than a location. The DelivAir drone uses GPS to navigate to a user's smartphone, updating its destination throughout its flight until it arrives within visual range The drone delivery system uses a two-stage routing process.

Perching is turning out to be a very desirable skill for aerial robots. The ability to land on walls or ceilings, rather than having to go to the ground, gives a drone the advantage of being high up in the air (probably why you're using a drone in the first place) without the disadvantage of having to spend a lot of energy not falling. We've seen lots of different perching techniques, most of them bio-inspired, including many different flavors of claws, spines, grippers, and adhesives. One of the best perchers in the animal kingdom (although it rarely gets credited as such) is the spider. And spiders don't just perch: They build infrastructure.

Drone deliveries are expected to revolutionize supply chain and logistics, by providing last mile coverage along with faster deliveries. Now a new app showcases it can even overhaul the current delivery mechanism -- which consists of delivering packages to physical addresses -- by transporting the package right into your hands, wherever you are at the moment. DelivAir app made by product developers and technology consultants, Cambridge Consultants, will use GPS and smartphone signals to navigate drones carrying the package to a person's real-time location; it will also ask the person for navigational directions once it is in the person's line of sight. It will authenticate the source of the order by syncing with a blinking pattern initiated by the app on the user's smartphone. The drone will deliver the packages from a safe height, avoiding direct contact.

Recipients need to be present at an address, for example. Now, though, Cambridge Consultants -- the team that brought us intelligent bins and Renaissance doodling -- has developed a drone delivery system that'll get you your stuff anytime, anywhere, in a matter of minutes. Let's imagine you're out having a nice walk in the middle of the countryside when you start feeling peckish. Using Cambridge Consultants' DelivAir app, you'd place an order for a snack, and the delivering drone would use GPS and your smartphone signal to navigate to your location, periodically asking for location updates during its flight, until it's within visual range. Once it arrives, you point your mobile phone flash LED to the sky, where it'll blink a coded pattern to let the drone know it's delivering to the right person.

When the milk had to sit quiet for about an hour to allow the culture to work, Shari served a couple of bowls of cereal, one with Honey's milk and the other with Honey's yogurt. Dane Lambson walked to an adjacent room where the couple keeps a large refrigerator full of cheese. He talked about the different types of cheese he has made over the years. While his mother made cheese when he was growing up, he did not learn until 10 years after he and Shari got married. They got a milk cow and fed their five children homemade dairy produce.

Hot-air balloon pilot Richard Varney typically spends his weekends transporting tourists around central Massachusetts in a huge, multicolored balloon. But on a recent Sunday, Varney drove to a local community college and learned to fly a different type of aerial vehicle. "I want to try something new," he said as he watched an instructor demonstrate how to steer a $2,000 drone equipped with a camera. "This could help me launch a side business taking aerial photos of local towns." At least 15 community colleges across the country now have courses that teach people how to pilot drones, according to research conducted by MIT Technology Review.

The Los Angeles Police Department released formal guidelines on its proposal to fly drones during a one-year pilot program, spurring questions and concerns among members of a civilian oversight panel and the public at a contentious meeting Tuesday. "Our challenge is to create a policy that strikes a balance, that promotes public safety, the safety of our officers and does not infringe on individual privacy rights," Assistant Chief Beatrice Girmala told the Los Angeles Police Commission at the packed meeting. Before outlining the guidelines, Girmala reviewed initial feedback from the community on the proposed drone initiative. Of 1,675 emails, only about 6% were positive and encouraged the LAPD to incorporate the new technology. The Police Commission must approve the pilot program before any of the unmanned aircraft are flown.

Incredible images and video footage have captured the first manned flight of an autonomous drone that could revolutionise the daily commute. Passenger Drone took to the skies with a pilot aboard to test out the aerial craft's capabilities. The aptly named red vehicle can fly at a top speed of around 45 mph with a flight range of up to 25 minutes. Passenger Drone can be piloted manually or passengers can simply select their destination, sit back and relax, as the drone takes control. Flight testing of the vertical take off and landing (VTOL) craft began in early May and for the last few months it has undergone intensive assessments.

BEIRUT – Two suicide bombers stormed a police station in the Syrian capital on Monday, killing at least 17 civilians and police, state TV reported, while a drone strike in eastern Syria killed 10 Hezbollah fighters who were helping Syrian troops battle the Islamic State group. The Syrian government is at war with the IS group as well as a local al-Qaida affiliate and an array of rebel groups, none of which immediately claimed the attack. It was also unclear who struck the Hezbollah fighters. Lt. Gen. Mohammad al-Shaar, Syria's interior minister, told reporters that two "terrorists" attacked the police station in the al-Midan neighborhood of Damascus with a number of bombs on Monday, before one of them blew himself up. He said the other bomber made it inside the compound, where police killed him, causing his bomb to explode.

Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz said video surveillance shows that inmates at Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility received two packages dropped by a drone May 29. Prison officials suspect the packages contained cellphones that were found inside the prison in July. The report, which was obtained by the Detroit News through a Freedom of Information Act request, said a third package containing phones, tobacco and marijuana was delivered that day, but prison officials recovered it. "A source inside the prison informed MDOC staff that it was the result of an unsuccessful drone delivery," according to the report by State Police Detective Sgt. "It was later learned that two packages were successfully delivered (confirmed through video) to prisoners via drone. After the successful drone delivery, two phones were found inside the facility on prisoners."