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The UK drone sector is projected to over the coming years, with increasingly capable technology, spawn a new range of potential applications and business models.

"The military drone market share is driven by factors such as battle damage management, combat operations, and delivery and transportation services across the globe," the report reads.

The report suggests that digital transformation, remote monitoring and the need to optimise operational costs will drive the significant growth.

Growth will be driven by technological advancements such as artificial intelligence (AI), as well as drones capable of long endurance flights and indoor inspection.

Hardware purchases still identified as primary market driver, with analysts predicting some price rises in 2020

The report by Nesta Challenges’ Flying High programme says emergency services would be helped most by drones

The University of Southampton's Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Team developed the world’s first 3D printed UAV in 2011

This is due to growing pressure on the global food supply and need for water consumption, as well as increased drone funding.

New data shows that 58% of the American public think drones are a good idea, while 42% do not.

Scientists have been deploying drones to help with what is usually the challenging task of weighing whales. Usually, scientists have to weight stranded or dead animals which can lead less accuracy. Now, according to a report in CNET, a team of researchers led by the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts published a study on how drones can be used. The method this week in the British Ecological Society journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution. The CNET report detailed how the scientists used drones to take aerial photographs of southern right