SF News City Agencies About To Get OK To Start Flying Their Own Drones The rush to start flying drones through the skies of San Francisco has thus far consumed for-profit companies like Amazon, Google and Chipotle, all of which seek to to eventually test-fly various drone
SF News Intoxicated Mountain View Man Attacks 300-Pound Security Robot, Is Arrested It's an only-in-Silicon Valley story that has NBC Bay Area making "Rage Against the Machine" dad jokes: Knightscope, the maker of a line of rolling security robots, apparently trusts its own product enough
SF News It's Mating Season For Harbor Seals, But Drones Could Be Killing The Mood From February through June, hundreds of harbor seals sleep, mate, sleep, give birth, and then sleep some more on beaches like one at the center of the Monterey Bay national marine sanctuary, Hopkins
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DoorDash Delivery Robots Now Crawling Bay Area Sidewalks Spotted in Redwood City- testing Doordash delivery vehicle pic.twitter.com/uF3mBpMT7O— Lou Hong (@louhong) March 10, 2017 They may not be the Star Wars-style droids we were looking for, but they say
SF News Amazon Files Patent For Parachute-Drop Delivery, Perfect For End Times via GIPHY Amazon's plans for widespread, mainstream drone delivery are — please forgive me — up in the air. Still, the company continues to tantalize news media with demonstrations — here's the Verge on their first
SF News Pacifica Drone Enthusiast Arrested For Interfering With Helicopter Rescue Pacifica police investigators tell CBS 5 that 55-year-old Gerald Destremps was arrested after allegedly piloting his personal drone near a helicopter, causing an interruption to a rescue attempt on Friday morning. Destremps's drone,
SF News Amazon Patents Floating Blimp Warehouse For Drone Deliveries Say you're tailgating at a 49ers game and, what do you know, you managed to forget the mustard. What to do? In today's stone-age reality, you're probably forced to borrow the condiment from
SF News Amazon Completes Drone Delivery Of Package In England In 13 Minutes First-ever #AmazonPrimeAir customer delivery is in the books. 13 min—click to delivery. Check out the video: https://t.co/Xl8HiQMA1S pic.twitter.com/5HGsmHvPlE— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) December 14, 2016 From a
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Drone Film Festival At The Roxie For the second year in a row, the Flying Robot international Film Festival will alight in San Francisco, chock full of shorts shot from up above. "The world's premier open competitive film festival
SF News Dream Of Drone-Delivered Lattes Comes Crashing Down As Alphabet's Project Wing Ends Starbucks Partnership Did you know that Alphabet's drone division, Project Wing, had teamed up with Starbucks with the goal of delivering the chain's products to customers by drone? Well, it seems the nascent partnership just
SF News Fly Above The Mission With This 3D Drone-Made Map Have you ever dreamt you're a bird, flying over a familiar city now foreign with new perspective? Operators of first-person-view drones often talk of experiencing a similar feeling — being "out of body" as
SF News Naked, Shotgun-Wielding 'Dirty Jobs' Star Mike Rowe Chases Off Drone Perhaps in an effort to catch the reality-TV star mid-dirty job, an unknown drone operator stands accused of piloting the device outside the bedroom window of San Francisco resident Mike Rowe and taking
SF News Autonomous Delivery Bot Hits San Francisco Sidewalks Starship just completed its first official and completely autonomous delivery to a wonderful lady in Richmond district of San Francisco A photo posted by Starship Technologies (@starshiprobots) on Sep 20, 2016 at 2:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alphabet Is Now Delivering Chipotle Burritos By Drone In news that is sure to cause college students around the country to choke on their bong water, Google parent company Alphabet today announced that its Project Wing drone division has teamed up
SF News We May Be Getting Google Drone Delivery As Soon As Next Year Google parent company Alphabet is one step closer to realizing its promise of having drones deliver all the dumb stuff you order online right to your doorstep. CNet reports that the company was
Arts & Entertainment Nerd Alert: Drone Racing And Combat Facility Coming to Palace Of Fine Arts For all the droning on about how the ubiquitous little flying robots can pose a deadly threat to aircraft, knock out power stations, and enable jerkish behavior, it’s easy to forget that
Arts & Entertainment Electromagnetic Wave Gun Zaps Drones, Provides Hope To SF An electromagnetic wave gun that disables drones by disrupting their controls, causing them to safely land in place or return to whence they came, could provide drone-riddled San Francisco with a solution to
SF News R2D2 Robot Things Want To Deliver You Stuff While human delivery people may someday face competition from flying Amazon and Google drones, those drones themselves may have a worthy competitor in robots, the likes of which the Chronicle now profiles. “It
SF News Which Are More Dangerous: Scofflaw Cyclists, Or Bad-Mannered Drone Flyers? Yesterday's post about the drone crashing into the Clement Street farmers' market which thankfully didn't hurt anyone but easily could have has got me thinking about one of our city's other hot-button arguments,
SF News Man Crashes Drone Into Farmers' Market, Then Gets Mad About Being Photographed Only in SF? Here's an alternate headline: Man Surreptitiously Photographing People At Farmers' Market Suddenly Has Privacy Concerns About Being Photographed. You've got tech, farmers' markets, inconsiderate drone behavior, and privacy paranoia all
SF News Twitter Patents Crowdsourced Tweet-Controlled Drone, FAA (Presumably) Cries Like its fluttery mascot, Twitter dreams of flight. The social media titan was granted a patent last week for a tweet-controlled drone, with user actions on the platform (think retweets) somehow determining the
SF News Officials Forced To Erect Anti-Drone Signs After Pilots Ignore Golden Gate Bridge Ban We told you back in April to stop flying your drones around the Golden Gate Bridge, but you just couldn't listen, could you? Well, maybe you could, but enough folks couldn't, and now
SF News FAA Would Like You To Narc On Irresponsible Drone Fliers Near SFO When someone almost crashed their drone into a California Highway Patrol helicopter last weekend, we hoped this prominent case of boneheadedness might serve as ample warning to other drone pilots to keep their
SF News Someone Almost Crashed A Drone Into A CHP Helicopter On Saturday A California Highway Patrol helicopter pilot had an unexpected encounter with a drone over the weekend, and was forced to take evasive maneuvers in order to avoid collision. It seems that a person
SF News Amazon Debuts New Delivery Drone Prototype, Still Has No Idea When They Will Be Deployed Remember when we all scoffed at Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 2013 claim that his company was developing a drone delivery system? Well, according to a company announcement, their plan to unleash hoards of
