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The use of drones for precision cropdusting was pioneered by Yamaha in Japan back in the 1980s. These drones (small helicopters about half the size of a golf cart) have been commercially available since the early 1990s and there are approximately 2,400 operating throughout Japan...

In his 06Oct2014 article in New York Magazine: “Drones and Everything After,” Benjamin Wallace-Wells richly describes the incredible power that drones provide to their human operators. The ability to see the world from a few hundred or a few thousand feet up in the...