Can a sea ship be called a drone? I thought drones where air based. I thought that 'drone' came from the sound a robotic air vehicle makes.
A stern googling will get you the Wall Street Journal article this comes from. If I link it, they won't let you read it.
A relatively recent example of this is the word 'literally' which used to, and still does, mean 'in the literally sense; exactly' but has also come to mean 'not literally true' when used for emphasis, as in: I have received literally thousands of emails).
Words!
Bees are both airborne (not seaborne) and make a notable (droning) sound in flight.
Old English-->Male Bee
from the German --> Droning sound
Although bees aren't remote control via a computer chip, they are generally seen as being commanded by the queen :)