Drones have unfortunately been pigeonholed by the media as useful in delivering our packages or acting as aerial “suicide” bombers. It’s quite sad, considering there are so many other beneficial use cases. Seriously, CB Insights generated a list of 38 ways drones will impact society, with some of the more intriguing being:

• Identifying natural conservation needs
• Tracking and controlling the spread of disease
• Improving urban infrastructure plans
• Delivering medicine to remote areas

There are many moonshot ways of bringing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) into our lives. However, the one that is gaining very interesting traction is their ability to provide an aerial perspective during emergency situations such as fires, floods, earthquakes, highway collisions, search-and-rescue missions, etc…