Four China Coast Guard vessels entered Japanese waters around the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea on Thursday morning, the Japan Coast Guard said, adding that what appeared to be a drone was seen flying above them. A high-ranking Foreign Ministry official lodged a ...
Japanese archaeologists use lasers and drones to map out pyramids
Japanese researchers have gone high-tech in an effort to unravel the mysteries behind the construction of Egypt's pyramids, mapping out the gigantic structures using advanced laser scanners and a drone. In March, in Abusir in the suburbs of Cairo, the group led by archaeologist Yukinori ...
Group will use drone to help prevent suicide at remote Fukui Prefecture site
A suicide prevention group will dispatch a drone to monitor remote areas around Tojinbo in Sakai, Fukui Prefecture — whose lonely cliffs remain romanticized in popular imagination as a destination where people go to end their lives — in the hopes that the effort ...
Surveillance tech using AI tapped for Tokyo 2020 security detail
When the Tokyo Marathon was held on Feb. 26, major security firm Secom Co. lifted a balloon equipped with cameras from a building near the finish line in front of JR Tokyo Station and deployed vehicles equipped with a radar system that can detect ...
J. League to use drone for first time to capture images during Frontale-Ventforet match
A drone will be employed to capture images of a top-flight Japanese soccer game for the first time, the J. League announced Friday. The unmanned aerial vehicle will be tested out above the pitch on Saturday, when Kawasaki Frontale host Ventforet Kofu at Todoroki Stadium. ...
U.S. to deploy attack drones to South Korea amid surging tensions with Pyongyang
The U.S. has announced that it will permanently deploy attack drones to South Korea to help counter the growing threats posed by North Korea's nuclear and missile programs — including to U.S. military bases in Japan. "The U.S. Army, after coordination with the Republic of ...
Japan turns to drones to help elderly hunters combat crop-damaging pests
In another downside to rapidly graying Japan, the nation's active hunters — in decline and aging — are having a hard time keeping up with their hunting dogs that dash after their prey. That's a big headache for prefectural governments nationwide that need hunters to ...
Trump gives CIA authority to conduct drone strikes, report says
U.S. President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency new authority to conduct drone attacks against suspected militants, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, citing U.S. officials. The move would be a change from the policy of former President Barack Obama's administration of limiting ...
Kitakyushu police make nation's first arrest for unauthorized drone flight in prohibited area
A man was arrested Friday for allegedly flying a drone in a prohibited area without permission in the first such incident since Japan began regulating the unmanned aircraft in 2015. Koji Shiokawa, 58, was arrested on suspicion of violating the revised Civil Aeronautics Law by ...
In world first, drone delivers soup to surfers off Fukushima Prefecture
In a world first, a drone successfully delivered a flask of hot soup to surfers on Thursday during a test of an unmanned flying vehicle traveling a preset route of more than 10 km. The industry ministry and the Fukushima Prefectural Government were among those ...
Don't fear robots; they won't render us jobless
"Rogue One," the latest in the Star Wars franchise, has had mixed reviews but features one undisputed star: K-2SO, a gangly robot with the best lines. Movies of the distant future always tap into current anxieties, and the latest alarm is that the robots ...
Israel's 'flying car' passenger drone moves closer to delivery
After 15 years of development, an Israeli tech firm is optimistic it will finally get its 1,500 kg (1.5 ton) passenger-carrying drone off the ground and into the market by 2020. The Cormorant, billed as a flying car, is capable of transporting 500 kg (around ...
