{"id":33119,"date":"2017-01-03T06:47:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T14:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/dog-fight-start-ups-take-aim-at-errant-drones"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:54:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:54:28","slug":"dog-fight-start-ups-take-aim-at-errant-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/dog-fight-start-ups-take-aim-at-errant-drones","title":{"rendered":"Dog fight: Start-ups take aim at errant drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dog-fight-start-ups-take-aim-at-errant-drones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>N\u201d A boom in consumer drone sales has spawned a counter-industry of start-ups aiming to stop drones flying where they shouldn\u2019t, by disabling them or knocking them out of the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of start-up firms are developing techniques \u2014 from deploying birds of prey to firing gas through a bazooka \u2014 to take on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that are being used to smuggle drugs, drop bombs, spy on enemy lines or buzz public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>The arms race is fed in part by the slow pace of government regulation for drones.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/us-tech-drones-idUKKBN14M180?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=586b310004d30165a3c5e4c1&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook\">http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/us-tech-drones-idUKKBN14M180?u...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N\u201d A boom in consumer drone sales has spawned a counter-industry of start-ups aiming to stop drones flying where they shouldn\u2019t, by disabling them or knocking them out of the sky. Dozens of start-up firms are developing techniques \u2014 from deploying birds of prey to firing gas through a bazooka \u2014 to take on unmanned [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1490,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-government","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65448,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119\/revisions\/65448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}