Despite millions of dollars spent on the search, with sophisticated underwater equipment including drone submersibles used to sweep a vast area of the Indian Ocean, nothing has been found.
More equipment, including drones, was brought in.
The cameras and the telephone-tracking equipment on drones would also allow the C.I.A. to identify and follow targets.
Stunned by the Iraqi army's recent setbacks, Iran has rushed military supplies to its friends in Baghdad, reportedly including signals equipment and drones.
That is an important suggestion when the term "robot" covers such a diversity of devices, from medical equipment to drones and vacuum cleaners.Stringent product-safety rules, for example, might discourage development of advanced prostheses and exoskeletons, a set of technologies that the European Union is keen to support.
As U.S. soldiers march over the mountains of Afghanistan, they lug in backpacks contraptions that look more like model planes than military equipment: flying drones that can buzz over ridges and mountains, looking for Taliban and terrorists.
"So more helicopters, perhaps some with night vision, river capacities and then this question of aerial surveillance equipment -- drones," Ladsous said, according to AFP. "I explained to the Security Council how necessary we think this is," he added.
The anti-drone equipment can detect and jam communications between a drone and its operator and was deployed on a roof at Gatwick.
Wilson was also forced to forfeit his drone equipment and handed two crime prevention orders banning him from purchasing, borrowing or using for any purpose a drone or encouraging anyone else to do so.
Carmean said he had received some 50 requests from producers of movies, TV shows and commercials to use his drone equipment on film shoots.
