Drones

A courier company has carried out New Zealand's first delivery by drone, flying a package across Auckland in a quarter of the time it would have taken by road. Audio

A global insurer's trial using drones to assess property damage in New Zealand, is helping it to roll out the technology to the rest of the world. Audio

The Government is considering relaxing the rules on the use of drones, which a report says could result in a multi-million dollar boost to the farming, forestry and energy sectors. The Callaghan… Audio

Ursula Cheers discusses the legal implications for media using drones for news gathering. Audio

Drones have appeared over landmarks in central Paris for the second night running and police are no closer to knowing who is operating them. Audio

Drones have been seen flying over several sensitive landmarks in Paris in a night-time mystery that French police say is being taken seriously. Audio

Peter Griffin on Sky's streaming video-on-demand service, Neon. Also, proposed laws governing drones in the US could rule out Amazon's new delivery service. Audio

A Canterbury University researcher says a drone could have helped to prevent the spread of the Flockton Hill fire. Audio

Airline pilots are warning of the risks drones pose to the country's airspace. Audio

Peter Griffin on the news that Dunedin's become NZ's first 'gigatown'. Also with more drones buzzing around our skies, the CAA is tightening up the rules governing how they operate in New Zealand. Audio

The Civil Aviation Authority is beefing up rules for drone use, but it says it still can't protect your privacy. Audio

Prof. Mark Apperley from University of Waikato tweezers out the silicon chips to expose how computers switch us on - artificial intelligence, drones and driverless cars. Audio

In Australia, drones are stopping water-bombing helicopters from fighting out-of-control bushfires. Audio

The increasing use of drones is being fingered as a problem for one of the country's largest helicopter companies which has called in the receivers. Audio

For the next couple of months, drones are taking pictures and video of visitors holidaying in South Island tourism hotspots. Audio

27 year old Christoper Harvard was the Australian citizen killed in the same drone strike as the New Zealander known as Muslim bin John. His family have been trying to get his body back from Yemen to… Audio

Professor Richard Jackson is Deputy Director at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at Otago University. Audio

A small UAV or unmanned aerial vehicle and video camera may be a new way to aerially monitor toxic algae in rivers. Audio

UAVs or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones as they’re commonly known, are suddenly everywhere. Conservationists and academics are using them to map our rivers; engineers surveyed the interior of the… Audio

This week we hear from professor Noel Sharkey about the development of fully autonomous drones, blogger Yousef Aljamal about life under the drones in the Gaza strip, and defence analyst Paul Buchanan… Audio