Google, Amazon and Wal-Mart have joined the government's task force charged with figuring out a registration and identification system for drones.

The proposed Consumer Drone Safety Act calls for more guidelines about when and where drones can fly in the U.S.

Thanks to advancing capabilities and greater accessibility, the use of drones is continuing to increase. In fact, global drone sales reached $4.3m in 2015, a 167-percent jump from two years ago. This surge should come as no surprise as people find more and more useful ways to put drones to work.

Tsuneishi Holdings Corporation is exploring the commercial applications of drones at its Hiroshima shipbuilding facility in an effort to increase both safety and productivity in daily operations.

Amazon.com Inc. wants a chance to prove that a drone delivery service would be safer than the U.S. government thinks.

The Federal Aviation Administration is so slow to approve drone permits that the aircraft become obsolete while waiting, an Amazon executive told a Senate panel last week.