mashable.com — Pliant Energy Systems has spent the last two years developing a drone named Velox. The robot, which was initially meant to be a generator that could harness the flow of water, is now more of a sleek-looking surveillance drone with potential to one day even help deliver medical supplies and ammo in c…

row2k.com — When Jane Erbacher posts her video of erging on a perch at the top of Flagstaff Mountain in Boulder, Colorado, to her Instagram, one of the first, and most asked, viewer questions she gets is - "How did you get the erg up there."

i-hls.com — During a recent demo, an autonomous drone was deployed to map tunnels as small as 3×3 meters, yielding accurate 3D renderings without sending miners into a potentially unsafe environment.

news.abs-cbn.com — The collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs will use a network of LTE-connected drones equipped with cameras and sensors that can be deployed to disaster areas along with a portable LTE network.

katu.com — The company, eWind Solutions just received $600,000 in federal grant money to develop an "energy harvesting tethered drone.” The principle is similar to that of a kite. A drone connected to a tether collects energy in the air where the wind speeds are higher. The goal is to generate 45,000 kilowatts…