FAA Approves First Fully Automated Drone Flights
             
            
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        U.S. aviation regulators have approved the first fully automated commercial drone flights, granting a small Massachusetts-based company permission to operate drones without hands-on piloting or direct observation by human controllers or observers.
 
      
      
    
      