Drone History and Applications
Unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAV), also known as drones, are aircrafts without an onboard human pilot. On December 1st of 2013 Amazon.com introduced delivery civilian drones. Driven by low-cost sensors, UAVs had military uses, but since 2013 civil applications were reported, namely, industrial surveillance, business parcel delivery, and imaging. Recently, health applications have included search and rescue, drug and vaccine delivery, the provision of care technology in emergencies, and organ transport. Transportation of clinical laboratory specimens is an attractive potential UAS application.
