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Drone facts for kids
Drone can mean:
In nature:
In vehicles:
- A unmanned aerial vehicle, often used for target practice or surveillance
- A remotely operated vehicle (ROV), used for mine clearing or underwater exploration
- An unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), a robotic land vehicle often used to replace humans in hazardous situations
In fiction:
- A member of the Drones Club in P. G. Wodehouse's novels
- A humanoid that has been assimilated by the Borg in the fictional Star Trek universe
- "Drone" (Voyager episode), an episode of Star Trek: Voyager
- Drone Weapon, similar to a guided missile, in the Stargate universe
- Three robotic helpers in the movie Silent Running, named Huey, Dewey and Louie
- In the novel The Traveller, the term drones describes a class of citizens that have become exhausted
- Detective Drone, the hero of Victorian crime stories
- A Zerg worker unit in Starcraft
In music:
- Drone (music), a continuous note or chord
- The part of various musical instruments (such as the bagpipe) that produce the drone sound
- A bumbass, a folk instrument sometimes called a drone
- Drone music, a music style or genre related to background music and ambient music
- Drone Records, a record label
- "Drones," a song by Rise Against
- The Drones, a rock group from Melbourne, Australia