A Martian drone is a sub-classification of Martians. They appeared in the 1986 science fiction remake of Invaders from Mars. They were non-humanoid creatures whose bodies consisted of a central mass with a face, two gangly arms and two short legs. The creatures were designed by Stan Winston. The costume consisted of two performers per drone. A little purpose was used to pilot the head-piece and articular the arms by way of two ski poles, while another performer supported the weight of the body mass and legs. The performer was fitted into the costume backwards and made to walk backwards to give the creature an inhuman perception of movement. Stan Winston insisted that his Martian drones not look like a man shoved inside of a rubber costume.
Martian Drones were the foot soldiers of the Supreme Martial Intelligence, which led a secret invasion of Los Angeles in order to deplete its copper reserves for unknown purposes. They would abduct random citizens and bring them back to their mother ship, which was hidden beneath Copper Hill where they would be injected with brain probes that would allow the Supreme Martial Intelligence to take control of their minds.