Drone

Drone most commonly refers to:

• Drone (bee), a male bee
• A type of uncrewed vehicle
  • Unmanned aerial vehicle or aerial drone
  • Unmanned ground vehicle or ground drone
  • Unmanned surface vehicle or drone boat, drone ship, surface drone
  • Unmanned underwater vehicle or underwater drone

Drone, or The Drones may also refer to:

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), 2011 episode
• "Drone" (Star Trek: Voyager), 1998 episode
• Drone, a humanoid assimilated by the Borg in Star Trek
• Drones, service robots in Silent Running (1972)
• Drones or yanme'e, fictional species in the Covenant in Halo

Literature

• Drone, a member of the Drones Club in P. G. Wodehouse's novels
• Drones, intelligent machines in the utopian society The Culture of Iain M. Banks

Music

• Drone (music), a continuous note or chord

Genres

• Drone metal, a musical style
• Drone music, a musical style

Instruments

• Drone (bagpipes)
• Drone zither
• Bladder fiddle or drone

Artists

• The Drones (Australian band)
• The Drones (English band)

Albums

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

Songs

• "Drone", 2018, by Alice in Chains from Rainier Fog
• "Drone", 2015, by Chastity Belt from Time to Go Home
• "Droned", 2004, by Cave In from Perfect Pitch Black
• "Drones", 2004, by Fear Factory from Archetype
• "Drones", 2015, by Oh Hiroshima from In Silence We Yearn
• "Drones", 2006, by Rise Against from The Sufferer & the Witness

Other uses

• Drone (wrestler), Mexican
• Drone, Georgia, place in the US
• Drone, fertile male ant
• Video game bot

See also

• Didgeridoo, sometimes called a dronepipe