Drone

Drone, drones or The Drones may refer to:

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Animals

• Drone (bee), a male bee, from an unfertilized egg
• Drone, a fertile male ant

Science and technology

• Autonomous spaceport drone ship, for recovery of space rocket first-stages
• Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an aircraft without a human aboard
  • Agricultural drone
  • Delivery drone
  • Micro air vehicle
  • Miniature UAV
  • Multirotor
  • Fixed-wing
  • Passenger drone
  • Quadcopter
  • Unmanned combat aerial vehicle, an armed UAV

Arts and media

Fictional entities

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

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), a 2011 episode of Beavis and Butt-head
• "Drone" (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1998 episode of Star Trek: Voyager

Music

Genres and groups

• Drone metal, a style of heavy metal
• Drone music, a minimalist musical style
• The Drones (Australian band)
• The Drones (English band)

Albums

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

Songs

• "Drone", by Alice in Chains from the 2018 album Rainier Fog
• "Drone", by Chastity Belt from the 2015 album Time to Go Home
• "Drones", by Fear Factory from the 2004 album Archetype
• "Drones", by Oh Hiroshima from the 2015 album In Silence We Yearn

Other uses in music

• Drone, or bladder fiddle
• Drone zither
• Drone (music), a continuous note or chord in a piece of music
• Drone (bagpipes), a pipe which produces a constant note
• Didgeridoo, sometimes called a dronepipe

Other uses

• Drone (wrestler), a Mexican professional wrestler
• Drone, Georgia, a place in the United States