Drones

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