Drones Take Off in Silicon Valley

Drone Startups Are About To Take Off
BERLIN, GERMANY - MAY 06: A quadrocopter drone flown remotely by a participant and equipped with a video camera flies past other participants waiting in line for regsitration on the first day of the re:publica 2013 conferences on May 6, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Re:publica, a three-day-event, brings together bloggers and digitial media professionals for a series of conferences on affecting social, political and economic change through the Internet. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
BERLIN, GERMANY - MAY 06: A quadrocopter drone flown remotely by a participant and equipped with a video camera flies past other participants waiting in line for regsitration on the first day of the re:publica 2013 conferences on May 6, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. Re:publica, a three-day-event, brings together bloggers and digitial media professionals for a series of conferences on affecting social, political and economic change through the Internet. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

American skies aren't supposed to open for another couple of years to drones flown by commercial operators, but they're already getting liftoff with Silicon Valley investors.

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