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title: "what are drones?"  
description: "what are drones?"  
author: "Saddiya  Anwar"  
published: 2020-02-12  
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# what are drones?

what are [drones](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/82214/cricket-drones-eye-will-take-you-to-the-boundary-now)?

## Answers

### Answer by Saddiya  Anwar

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Drones are unnamed aerial vehicles that is remotely controlled or fly autonomously through software controlled flight plans in their embedded systems and on-board sensors and GPS.

These are now associated with the military for anti aircraft targets, intelligence gathering and more controversially as weapons. These are being used in a wide range of civilian roles ranging from search and rescue, surveillance, traffic monitoring, weather monitoring, firefighting, to personal drones and business drone based photography, agriculture and delivery services by e-commerce [companies](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/92693/what-do-you-know-about-virtual-reality). **Types of Drones** **Drone platforms have two main types :** (I) Rotor, including single rotor or multi rotor such as tricopters, quadcopters, hexacopters, and octocopetrs,(ii) Fixed wing, which include the hybrid VTOL ( vertical takeoff and landing) drones that don't require runways. Drones can be categorised as either Personal/hobbyist or commercial/enterprise. \
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