Robot Living

Merseyside police in England used a helicopter drone to track down a teenager who had run away from a stolen car.  The robot used thermal imaging cameras and the police did finally catch the suspect.
The problem is that the police were not allowed to use the drone and themselves committed a crime in the process.
The [...]

A RQ-4 Global Hawk UAV (Unmanned Ariel Vehicle) was on the way to Afghanistan and has been re-routed to Haiti.  The Global Hawk is a surveillance aircraft capable of covering up to 40,000 miles a day.
This drone will provide overhead views of the situation in Haiti and the photos will be freely available online. To [...]

I’m not sure how old this video is.  One commenter states it is 2 years old.
That being said, it seems like the Houston police are using an Insitu ScanEagle to spy on it’s residents.
The news team from KPR2 in Houston followed the drone in a helicopter and was told by the police they were in [...]

Well, it doesn’t look anything like a parrot, but is a  damn cool drone controlled by your iPhone!
Recently unveiled at the CES being currently held in Las Vegas, this drone is designed to fly inside or outside, seems easy to control and comes with 2 augmented reality games.
This drone is really a WiFi enabled helicopter [...]

The most recent UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) from Theiss Aviation is the TIC or Tactical Information Craft.
This company has been awarded several contracts already, including a contract from NASA and one from the Air Force Research Laboratories.
The new model TIC costs around $6,000 and can potentially be launched from the trunk of a car.  It [...]