DRONE

'Drone' may refer to:
In 'nature':

★ Drone (bee), a male bee

★ A male wasp

★ A male ant
In 'vehicles':

★ A pilotless airplane (drone), 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, 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

★ Drone, a self-conscious intelligent machine in the Culture series of novels by Iain M. Banks

★ In the film ''The Black Hole''

★ Detective Drone, the hero of Victorian crime stories

★ Drones, a breed of Zerg used for construction and mining in the ''StarCraft'' science-fiction series.

★ Drones, called Yanme'e in their own language, are one of the antagonistic races of the Covenant in the ''Halo'' series of video games.
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