Airspace drone 'captures' intruding UAVs
Drone manufacturer Airspace is launching a bounty hunter drone to capture unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that are infringing on airspace. The drone is being marketed for protection to individuals, corporations and utility companies looking for privacy or asset guarding. The as-yet-unnamed product utilises a sticky web to render the target immobile, using machine vision and deep learning to detect and bring it down, and can be controlled through a smartphone app.

The Airspace Drone Takes Down Other Unwanted Drones

Drones have developed faster than the technology in place to monitor them, making sure that they don't fly over locations they shouldn't, so the Airspace drone is a way to take control of unwanted or illegal drone flights with a more aggressive approach. Rather than implementing software to override the drone in question -- or some other similar behind-the-scenes system -- the Airspace drone is a powerful machine that ensnares smaller drones in a net and carries them away.



The Airspace drone can be controlled via a smartphone app that lets its user control which drones it targets, but it can also be sent out as a sentinel to target any drones in a given area. By catching those targets in a net and carrying them to safety, the Airspace drone removes the dangers of drones falling from the sky.