Most of the time drone pilots steer using video game-style controllers, or just virtual thumbpads and buttons on a phone screen. But helicopters and planes are steered by joystick-like controllers, so ...

Motion-controlled unmanned aerial vehicles aren’t entirely new, we’ve seen companies as renowned as DJI manufacturing drones that respond to hand-gesture commands, for example. However, four graduate ...

Fans of Parrot's AR.Drone quadcopter have been anticipating the arrival of the AR.Drone 3.0 for the past couple of years, but it now looks like the next major addition to the French company's fleet is ...

From quadcopters that use radar to map 3D environments to self-automated systems that launch themselves, drones are getting more and more sophisticated with every passing week. Sadly, controlling ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean start-up company has developed a thumb joystick that allows users to fly a drone with one hand, replacing the traditional two-handed joystick. The "Shift" controller, ...

It makes sense that a pilot would come up with a way to use an aircraft-style joystick to control drones. Fluidity Aviator aims to be a better way to fly your drone, eliminating the need to use the ...

The former trauma doctor-turned-tech CEO has flown five space shuttle missions. Even a veteran NASA astronaut who has made repairs on the International Space Station can have trouble controlling a ...

Robotics expert on the Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, EPFL team, Matteo Macchini, right, displays the fly controls in a virtual reality scenario as he controls the flight of a drone in ...

Drone pilots may be interested in a new haptic drone joystick developed by start-up MotionPilot, to enable drone pilots to fly drones using just one hand and feel the movement of their drone in a more ...

Today, drones are typically flown with a controler, but Swiss researchers at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) now claim they have a better way: using the human body. The EPFL scientists ...