Most of the time drone pilots steer using video game-style controllers, or just virtual thumbpads and buttons on a phone screen. But helicopters and planes are steered by joystick-like controllers, so ...

Spinning off from the action-camera company Insta360, Antigravity now has its debut drone on sale. With 360-degree cameras ...

Fans of Parrot's AR.Drone quadcopter have been anticipating the arrival of the AR.Drone 3.0 for the past couple of years, but it now looks like the next major addition to the French company's fleet is ...

French UAV maker Parrot on Monday unveiled two new additions to its consumer lineup, taking the wraps off of the Bebop drone — featuring a 14 megapixel camera and 12 minutes of flight time — alongside ...

The former trauma doctor-turned-tech CEO has flown five space shuttle missions. Even a veteran NASA astronaut who has made repairs on the International Space Station can have trouble controlling a ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean start-up company has developed a thumb joystick that allows users to fly a drone with one hand, replacing the traditional two-handed joystick. The "Shift" controller, ...

Robotics expert on the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, EPFL team, Matteo Macchini, right, displays the fly controls in a virtual reality scenario as he controls the flight of a drone in ...

Today, drones are typically flown with a controler, but Swiss researchers at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) now claim they have a better way: using the human body. The EPFL scientists ...

Joysticks, on the other hand, are of simple design but mastering their use to precisely control distant objects can be challenging." The scientists wanted to observe how people use their bodies to ...