Robotic Falcon takes down rogue drones with one shot

Although U.S. authorities have made headway in terms of regulating drone use, there's still no real standard way of stopping a drone once you find out one is illegally hovering over your home or business. That may be about to change

A team from the Michigan Technological University has created what they call a Robotic Falcon that acts as a kind of drone catcher

The Robotic Falcon doesn't look like a bird, it's really just another drone, capable of the same kind of flight patterns and speeds available to most high-end drones. The difference here is that the Robotic Falcon is also equipped with a highly accurate net that it shoots at other rogue drones Read more...