{"259271":{"#nid":"259271","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Amazon Prime Air, Sushi-Delivery and More Ways Drones Might Be Used","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ESunday evening was a night of drones. On Showtime\u0027s \u0022Homeland,\u0022 the CIA debated using drones to take out some of its own men to divert attention on the border of Iran. But in real life, just as the show was coming on the air, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/amazon.com\/\u0022\u003EAmazon.com\u003C\/a\u003E announced its bold plans to use similar flying vehicles to deliver packages\u2026 But not all the drones you see in the future might be coming right to you. They might instead be watching you. Drones equipped with cameras might soon help monitor roads and gather traffic information. Fairfax County Police Chief David Roher has said that he envisions the flying devices gathering detailed aerial views. \u0022Just as a standpoint as an alternative for spotting traffic and sending information back to our VDOT Smart Traffic centers, and being able to observe backups,\u0022 he said. Georgia Tech has also done research on traffic drones and how they will provide more precise traffic information than stationary traffic cameras.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2013-12-06 07:09:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:51","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"automation in the workplace","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/amazon-prime-air-ways-drones-future\/story?id=21070635","dateline":{"date":"2013-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2013-12-02T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"34141","name":"Drones"},{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}