Drone Explained

Drone most commonly refers to:

• A type of unmanned vehicle, a class of robot
  • Unmanned aerial vehicle or aerial drone
    • Unmanned combat aerial vehicle
  • Unmanned ground vehicle or ground drone
  • Unmanned surface vehicle or drone boat, drone ship, drone, vessel, surface drone, robot ship, robot boat
  • Unmanned underwater vehicle or underwater drone, drone sub, robot sub
    • Remotely operated vehicle (remotely operated underwater vessel)

Drone, or The Drones may also refer to:

Biology

• Drone (bee), a male bee
• Drone, fertile male ant

People and characters

• Drone (wrestler) (born 1991; Hombre Bala Jr.), ringname of a Mexican professional luchador
• Luke Drone (born 1984), U.S. American football player

Characters

• Drone, a member of the Drones Club in P. G. Wodehouse's novels
• Drones, intelligent machines in the utopian society The Culture of Iain M. Banks
• Drone, a humanoid assimilated by the Borg in Star Trek
• Drones, service robots in Silent Running (1972)
• Drones or yanme'e, fictional species in the Covenant in Halo

Places

• Drone, Georgia, an unincorporated community in the US
• Dronne, also spelled Drône, a river in south-western France
• Pointe de Drône, a mountain in the Pennine Alps, Italy-Switzerland
• River Drone, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK

Film

• Drones (2010 film), an American office comedy
• Drones (2013 film), an American war thriller directed by Rick Rosenthal
• Drone (2014 film), a Norwegian documentary film
• Drone (2017 film), a Canadian thriller film

Television

• "Drones" (Beavis and Butt-Head), 2011 episode
• "Drone" (Star Trek: Voyager), 1998 episode

Music

• Drone (music), a continuous note or chord
• Drones World Tour, 2015, by Muse; supporting the eponymous 2015 album

Genres

• Drone metal, a musical style
• Drone music, a musical style

Instruments

• Drone (bagpipes)
• Drone box
• Drone zither
• Bladder fiddle or drone

Artists

• The Drones (Australian band)
• The Drones (English band)

Albums

• The Drones (EP), a 2001 EP by the Australian band Drones
• Drones (Muse album) (2015)
• Drones (Robert Rich album) (1983)

Songs

• "Drone", 2018, by Alice in Chains from Rainier Fog
• "Drone", 2015, by Chastity Belt from Time to Go Home
• "Drones", 2004, by Fear Factory from Archetype
• "Drones", 2015, by Muse, the title track from the eponymous album Drones
• "Drones", 2015, by Oh Hiroshima from In Silence We Yearn
• "Drones", 2006, by Rise Against from The Sufferer & the Witness

Other uses

• Video game bot

See also

• Didgeridoo, sometimes called a dronepipe
  • • Droners
• Droned (disambiguation)
• Dronne (disambiguation)
• Robot (disambiguation)