The US drone start-up Modovolo has developed the "Modovolo Lift" drone, which uses various technical features such as high motor speed with slow-running large rotor blades, low weight and a ...

it is one of the largest drones we’ve ever seen. Able to lift 400 pounds (a Phantom 3 weighs 2.8 pounds) and can fly for eight hours, the SKYF drone is a nice piece of aeronautical engineering.

Hobby drones can’t reliably lift, well, pretty much anything, so we’re talking about an incredibly powerful drone here. It’s safe to say nothing like this has ever been attempted before ...

The initiative is a groundbreaking effort to design an autonomous, heavy-lift drone capable of carrying up to 31.75 tons of ...

And these automated drones are now doing the jobs humans - on foot, or operating fork-lift trucks and mechanical lifts - used to do: and they're doing them more cheaply and more accurately.

Marines tested stealthy reconnaissance drones, heavy-lift resupply models and a self-driving boat. Officers said "autonomous-advance-force" tests, of how humans and machines could work together ...