Drone most commonly refers to: *

Drone (bee) A drone is a male honey bee. Unlike the female worker bee, drones do not have stingers. They gather neither nectar nor pollen and are unable to feed without assistance from worker bees. A drone's only role is to mate with a maiden queen in nuptia ...

, a male bee, from an unfertilized egg *

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 ...

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 ...

, watercraft *

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, drones 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 The Borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the ''Star Trek'' fictional universe. The Borg are Cyborg, cybernetic organisms (cyborgs) linked in a Group mind (science fiction), hive mind called "the Collective". 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 Drone metal or drone doom is a style of heavy metal that melds the slow tempos and heaviness of doom metal with the long-duration tones of drone music. Drone metal is sometimes associated with post-metal or experimental metal. Characteristics Ty ...

, a musical style *

Drone music Drone music, drone-based music, or simply drone, is a minimalist genre that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tone clusters – called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy audio programs with relatively slight harmon ...

, 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 Drone zithers or droned zithers are stringed instruments of the zither family that have few (sometimes only one) melodic strings and a greater number of drone strings. The oldest known form of drone zither is the Scheitholt. The Scheitholt deve ...

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 were an Australian rock band, formed in Perth by mainstay lead vocalist and guitarist Gareth Liddiard in 1997. Fiona Kitschin, his domestic partner, joined on bass guitar and vocals in 2002. Other long-term members include Rui Pereir ...

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 ''Rainier Fog'' (pronounced: ) is the sixth studio album by American rock band Alice in Chains, released on August 24, 2018, through BMG, the band's first release on the label. The title was inspired by Mount Rainier, a volcano that overlooks the ...

'' * "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 ...

'' * "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 ''The Sufferer & the Witness'' is the fourth studio album by American punk rock band Rise Against, released on July 4, 2006. A melodic hardcore album, it comprises thirteen tracks that focus on melody, catchy hooks, and rapid-paced tempo. Socia ...

Other uses

Drone (wrestler) Drone (born August 8, 1991 in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, Mexico State, Mexico) is the current ring name of a Mexican '' luchador enmascarado'', or masked professional wrestler who works for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundia ...

, 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 Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera. Ants evolved from vespoid wasp ancestors in the Cretaceous period. More than 13,800 of an estimated total of 22 ...

* Drones or yanme'e, a fictional species in the Covenant in ''Halo''