Drone most commonly refers to: * Drone (bee), a male bee, from an unfertilized egg * A type of

uncrewed vehicle An uncrewed vehicle or unmanned vehicle is a vehicle without a person on board. Uncrewed vehicles can either be under telerobotics, telerobotic control—remote controlled or remote guided vehicles—or they can be Autonomous robot, autonomously ...

Unmanned aerial vehicle An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board. UAVs are a component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), which includes adding a ground-based controller ...

or aerial drone **

Unmanned ground vehicle An unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is a vehicle that operates while in contact with the ground and without an onboard human presence. UGVs can be used for many applications where it may be inconvenient, dangerous, or impossible to have a human op ...

or ground drone **

Unmanned surface vehicle Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), also known as unmanned surface vessels, autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) in some cases, uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), or colloquially drone ships, or robot boats, are boats or ships that operate on the ...

or drone boat, drone ship, surface drone **

Unmanned underwater vehicle Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV), sometimes known as underwater drones, are submersible vehicles that can operate underwater without a human occupant. These vehicles may be divided into two categories: remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROU ...

or underwater drone Drone, or The Drones may also refer to:

Film and television

* ''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 * "Drones" (''Beavis and Butt-Head''), 2011 episode * "Drone" (''Star Trek: Voyager''), 1998 episode * Drone, a humanoid assimilated by the Borg in Star Trek * Drones, service robots in ''

Silent Running ''Silent Running'' is a 1972 American environmental-themed apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic science fiction film. It is the directorial debut of Douglas Trumbull, and stars Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, and Jesse ...

'' (1972)

Literature

* Drone, a member of the

Drones Club The Drones Club is a recurring fictional location in the stories of British humorist P. G. Wodehouse. It is a gentlemen's club in London. Many of Wodehouse's Jeeves and Blandings Castle stories feature the club or its members. Various members ...

in P. G. Wodehouse's novels * Drones, intelligent machines in the utopian society

The Culture The Culture is a fictional interstellar post-scarcity civilisation or society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks and features in a number of his space opera novels and works of short fiction, collectively called the Culture series. ...

of Iain M. Banks

Music

Drone (music) In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece. A drone may also be any part of a musical instrument used to produce this effect; an archai ...

, a continuous note or chord

Genres

* Drone metal, a musical style * Drone music, a musical style

Instruments

Drone (bagpipes) Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. The Great Highland bagpipes are well known, but people have played bagpipes for centuries throughout large parts of Europe, No ...

* Drone zither *

Bladder fiddle The bladder fiddle was a folk instrument used throughout Europe and in the Americas. The instrument was originally a simple large stringed fiddle (a musical bow) made with a long stick, one or more thick gut strings, and a pig's-bladder resonato ...

or drone

Artists

* The Drones (Australian band) *

The Drones (English band) The Drones are an English punk rock band from Manchester, England. For a period of time, the band were in their early days produced and managed by Paul Morley. One critic wrote: "Bonafide DIY three-chord wonders, the Drones were there at punk' ...

Albums

* ''The Drones'' (EP), a 2001 EP by the Australian band Drones * ''Drones'' (Muse album) (2015) **

Drones World Tour The Drones World Tour was a worldwide concert tour by the English Rock music, rock band Muse (band), Muse. Staged in support of the band's 2015 album ''Drones (Muse album), Drones'', the tour visited arenas and festivals throughout 2015 and is ...

* ''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 ''Time to Go Home'' is the second studio album by American indie rock band, Chastity Belt. It was released on March 23, 2015 by Hardly Art. Music and lyrics The album opens with the track "Drone". A line from Sheila Heti's ''How Should a Person ...

'' * "Droned", 2004, by Cave In from '' Perfect Pitch Black'' * "Drones", 2004, by Fear Factory from ''

Archetype The concept of an archetype (; ) appears in areas relating to behavior, historical psychology, and literary analysis. An archetype can be any of the following: # a statement, pattern of behavior, prototype, "first" form, or a main model that ot ...

'' * "Drones", 2015, by Oh Hiroshima from ''

In Silence We Yearn ''In Silence We Yearn'' is the second studio album by the Swedish post-rock band Oh Hiroshima, self-released digitally in November 2015. The album was re-released on CD on 1 July 2016 by Fluttery Records and on vinyl on 2 December by Napalm Rec ...

'' * "Drones", 2006, by Rise Against from '' The Sufferer & the Witness''

Other uses

* Drone (wrestler), Mexican *

Drone, Georgia Drone is an unincorporated community in Burke County, Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States Georgia may also ref ...

, a place in the US * Drone, a fertile male ant * Drones or yanme'e, a fictional species in the Covenant in ''Halo''