From drones wielding handguns to making personal deliveries, it seems that these nifty copters are unstoppable in their mission to take over the world. Now you can watch some impressive drone's-eye-views of old buildings being reduced to rubble in these demolitions.
Here are a few of WIRED.co.uk's favourites.
Park Avenue Hotel, Detroit
Another landmark of Motor City fallen into abandonment, the Park Avenue Hotel was built in 1924, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. After being used by the Salvation Army as a homeless shelter, the Renaissance-style building -- complete with distinctive "Zombieland" graffiti daubed across the roof -- was sold to developers to make way for the New Detroit Arena. It was demolished on 11 July, 2015.
Clarion Hotel, Toledo
After sitting empty for five years, this faded hotel was turned over to the state of Ohio after the original company that owned it walked away. The demolition took 12 weeks in total -- including removing asbestos from the site -- before it was torn down in a $400,000 implosion.
Christchurch Police Station, New Zealand
The controlled demolition of this old police station is only the second to take place in New Zealand, drawing huge crowds as a result. It took 55kg of explosives to bring the earthquake-damaged thirteen-storey building down, and was live streamed online.
Didcot Power Station cooling towers
Didcot Power Station dominates the Oxfordshire countryside, with a chimney that's one of the tallest structures in the UK. Three of its hyperbolic cooling towers were razed in July 2014, and this drone footage captured the moment they disappear into plumes of smoke.
Leicester's New Walk Centre
These two crumbling former council offices were built back in the 1970s, but were declared unsafe in 2010. They were demolished in an explosion known as a "double blow-down", taking just a few seconds for the tower blocks to be reduced to dust.
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