Drains were probably best known for death on the battlefield
but their use has been changing.
Unmanned air power tracks hurricanes, creates 3D maps
finds survivors using heat-seeking technology
tackles poaching, the list goes on.
So here are a few ways can which they could be used in the future.
Drones have the distinct advantage of not being human so if they can go where we could...
but we would probably not want to see because of the conditions.
Where an area has been affected by a highly contagious disease the use of drones to deliver medicines
Or maybe even spray an airborne antidote could work.
Whether that be in a volatile area affected by legally contentious chemical attacks.
Or a place where a prevalent disease was taking hold.
it would need a concerted combined approach from government
and the medical industry and cost would be a factor
but if diseases can be spotted early enough it could arguably make a difference.
Researchers in Malaysia and the Philippines have been using drones to
track environmental changes
that allow malaria to flourish like deforestation.
Thereby allowing the spread of the disease to be monitored
and then create early warning systems.
Drones are already used in emergency situations
they've been helping firefighters in North America and Australia tackle huge wildfires.
Now will probably be seeing ones that carry defibrillators
unsurprisingly called ambulance drones.
The Drones for Good project has come up with the idea
The makers say it could reach 200 kilometres per hour
and tracks emergency mobile calls using GPS to navigate.
It's also claimed that it could get to a patient within a 12 kilometre square area within a minute.
and so increased chance of survival from 20 percent
to eighty percent.
We don't think they've got sirens on board but that would be pretty cool too.
So there's no place like home and there could be no place like a drone home.
There's nothing stopping you and I from buying one of these
maybe around the house using your imagination it will come in extra handy.
How many drones does it take to change a lightbulb?
One potentially and how about bringing you your cuppa tea or beer,
unblocking the gutters checking the roof it damage after a bad storm.
The sky's the limit
or maybe if you're more on the lazy side perhaps.
The thing I say the limit but it's kinda not really as there are laws
So don't go flying them around Virginia in North America looking at everything
because you're probably get fined for spying.
There also laws in Texas and Wisconsin.
The Federal Aviation Administration says there are rules like the 400-foot flight ceiling.
and not flying them near an airport which has already happened twenty five times.
Administrator Michael Huerta has said that the FAA is working on a 'staged intergration'
to possibly allow commercial use which is basically
they want to regulate it properly.
In the UK the number of permits for drones or UAVs has risen dramatically by
eighty percent since the beginning of 2014.
A report by the University of Birmingham Policy Commission
has said that they could be used by terrorists he want disperse chemical or
biological agents
or lookouts for burglars and robbers which is why the report
led by a former head of the Intelligence Center GCHQ
that there needs to be urgent measures to safeguard British
airspace and privacy.
And privacy is a massive thing here. Drones can fall into the wrong hands
and they can record and capture our daily lives out and about
or at home.
So you may like the idea of a pizza being delivered to your door or the council's drone coming to pick up some rubbish on your road.
But then you may not like the idea of being caught sunning yourself in the garden.
Or even when you go and pick up that present you don't want anyone to know about.
So where will the boundaries be if it's being used by say the police,
and how long would they and companies hold that data.
So interesting times ahead just as long as you know what's circling above your head
And if it has got you in its sights.