These aerial vehicles have a radio-controlled driving component, but they aren’t restricted to the instructions they receive. Drones can perform activities and tasks autonomously, thanks to the level and height sensors, the gyroscope and the GPS built into their electronics.
Basically, a drone can be defined as an unmanned vehicle that’s capable of autonomously maintaining a controlled and sustained level of flight.
Drones have great potential in a wide range of areas, as they can move quickly over uneven and rough terrain and overcome any type of obstacle, providing images and capturing other kinds of data with a bird’s-eye view, thanks to the devices they can carry (cameras, sensors, etc.) and their applications, without any risk to people, according to Ferrovial.
Military origins
Their origins, like many other devices in human history, had a military purpose, and we have to go back to the second half of the 19th century to find antecedents of bomb-laden hot-air balloons such as those used by the Austro-Hungarian Empire and during the American Civil War and perfected shortly afterwards with steam-powered airships.
But it wasn’t until 1970 that the first drone of the modern era known as UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle, under both remote control and autopilot) was created, and its inventor was Abraham Karen, born in Baghdad to a Jewish family in 1937, who built it for the Israeli air force and later emigrated to the United States.
While their military purpose remains substantial, as control technologies have improved and costs have come down their use has spread to numerous other applications in aerial photography, product deliveries, agriculture, meteorology, surveillance, rescues, disaster relief, infrastructure inspections, science, the fight against crime and even a sporting facet, with drone racing and acrobatics.
Continue reading: https://www.telefonica.com/en/communication-room/blog/what-drones-are-and-their-valuable-service-to-society/
Basically, a drone can be defined as an unmanned vehicle that’s capable of autonomously maintaining a controlled and sustained level of flight.
Drones have great potential in a wide range of areas, as they can move quickly over uneven and rough terrain and overcome any type of obstacle, providing images and capturing other kinds of data with a bird’s-eye view, thanks to the devices they can carry (cameras, sensors, etc.) and their applications, without any risk to people, according to Ferrovial.
Military origins
Their origins, like many other devices in human history, had a military purpose, and we have to go back to the second half of the 19th century to find antecedents of bomb-laden hot-air balloons such as those used by the Austro-Hungarian Empire and during the American Civil War and perfected shortly afterwards with steam-powered airships.
But it wasn’t until 1970 that the first drone of the modern era known as UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle, under both remote control and autopilot) was created, and its inventor was Abraham Karen, born in Baghdad to a Jewish family in 1937, who built it for the Israeli air force and later emigrated to the United States.
While their military purpose remains substantial, as control technologies have improved and costs have come down their use has spread to numerous other applications in aerial photography, product deliveries, agriculture, meteorology, surveillance, rescues, disaster relief, infrastructure inspections, science, the fight against crime and even a sporting facet, with drone racing and acrobatics.
Continue reading: https://www.telefonica.com/en/communication-room/blog/what-drones-are-and-their-valuable-service-to-society/
