Two legal experts debate who has the right to decide when and where drones can fly
India joined the United States and Japan by stepping in to regulate unmanned aerial vehicles as nations around the world scramble to tackle safety concerns drones pose along with the numerous benefits they bring.
Amazon is suggesting it has created a workable solution, but one that also puts the onus on customers.
Amazon has unveiled what its unmanned drones for package delivery would look like with a video launched on Sunday on the prototype of technology it announced two years ago.
American IT legend Steven Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer (Apple Inc.) together with the late Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne in the late 1970s, said Tuesday in Dubai that while drones for private use is positive technological development, but the usage should be government-regulated to avoid accidents.
South Korea on Tuesday spurned the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s call for a joint probe into spy drones after Seoul's investigation team tentatively concluded that those were flown by Pyongyang for the reconnaissance purpose.
The once military dedicated unmanned aircraft industry now attracts large quantities of civilian investment in China, as the market capacity of civilian drones in China, though still at an early stage, has already absorbed tens of millions of U.S. dollars.