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This can be a very useful tool against mosquito-spread diseases like malaria.
Naval warfare is on the brink of a paradigm shift.
It's was inspired by some animals' diverse mobility skills
The amphibious drone was inspired by the kingfisher and the suckerfish.
The future sounds cloudy with a chance of drone swarms.
Scientists have developed minute artificial muscles to power Lilliputian drones.
Every minute matters, and a drone can really speed things up.
The aircraft was being used for a drug trafficking network.
It's not ready for commercial applications, but the potential is there.
Joy, sadness, fear, anger, and surprise were the easiest to recognize.
After the first return flights, now it's time to start exploring Mars!
Researchers believe a controversial conquistador visited the Wichita site.
In Chile, protesters are using lasers en masse to bring down hapless police drones. Videos of Chilean protesters bringing down police drones using nothing but green laser pointers have been hitting social media since Wednesday, attracting quite a large helping of attention. Still, how is it possible for what are essentially toy lasers to bring […]
A milestone in e-commerce... and the imminent age of robot overlords.
Titan is of interest because it is the only body in our solar system (besides Earth) that has liquid rivers, lakes, and seas on its surface.
It's always good to take a breather!
BEEEE cause we can, that's why.
A simple but elegant solution.
The solid-state propulsion system works by ionizing the air.
This microdrone packs a lot of muscle.
That's... surprisingly damaging!
Talk about a great use of technology!
The future is finally here.
Marsbees could cover a lot more ground on the Red Planet than sluggish rovers.
Their job will be to take pictures of fat seals and I'm so, so envious.
Humans had the upper hand for now. In the long run, though, drones prove more reliable.
The final selection for New Horizons is expected in mid-2019.
They reduced response times by over 75% during trials.
In Norway, a research project regularly uses drones to investigate dietary habits and predation behaviours of killer whale groups.
When you need medical supplies, you need them immediately and one startup promises to do it faster than anybody.
The drone will have to be light but solid enough to survive in the moon's harsh atmosphere.
A little ship braving the ocean on its own.
Harvard roboticists made an insect-like flying robot that perches on ceilings to save energy, like bats, birds or butterflies.
Between 2,500 and 4,000 so-called 'extremists' have been killed by drone strikes and kill squads in Pakistan since 2004. Maybe as early as 2007, the NSA has targeted terrorists based on metadata supplied by machine learning program named Skynet. I have no idea who would find naming Skynet a machine designed to list people for assassination a bright idea, but that's besides the point. The real point is that the inner workings of this software, as revealed in part by Edward Snowden from his leaks, suggest that the program might be targeting innocent people.
hinese drone making company Ehang recently showed off one of the most impressive contraptions at the CES convention in Las Vegas: a manned drone. It can fly as high as 11,500 feet, top speed of 63mph and a range of 20 minutes worth of powered flight. It can fit one person and a small backpack. It looks and sounds impressive, but is the world ready for it? For sure no, but the prospects for the future already sound appealing. Finally, the age The Jetsons foretold might finally be nigh.
Take a little break and enjoy the festivities all over again, all thanks to Jeff Cremer and his trusty drone.
A couple of quadrotors wove a bridge out of polyethylene fiber rope in an intricate dance. Some 120 meters of rope were used by the quadrotors to bridge the 7.4-meter gap, neatly tying knots, links, and braiding. Ultimately, the final test was passed after an ETH Zurich’s Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control student crossed the robot-manufactured bridge.
Drones are often feared as instruments of destruction, and as John Oliver pointed out, in some parts of the world, people fear blue skies because that’s when the drones strike. But this technology isn’t only used to destroy – it can also be used to create, as demonstrated by these very efficient quadrocopters building a rope […]
NASA is preparing to send a drone to Mars by 2024 - they've already developed a small, lightweight craft that could conduct aerial surveys and identify potential landing areas and zones of interest.
A mini-drone that fits in the palm of your hand could give the military an upper hand on the battlefield by providing key intelligence readings. Hundreds of these small, plastic drones could be dropped off a flight and left to scatter across the battlezone. Though they don't have any engines, these "Cicada" drones are equipped with sensors that help adjust the gliding pattern, directing the drone towards a dropzone with an accuracy within a couple of feet. These are hard to spot since they easily disguise as a bird from afar and once behind the lines can use their sensors and microphones to spy on enemy positions. These can also prove very useful for civilian missions, most notably for gathering meteorological data.
Climate models and environmental monitoring missions are ever more reliant on autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to scour the ocean depths and bring back valuable data like temperature, salinity, carbon levels and so on. Researchers at MIT have now upgraded the way AUVs perform their missions by adding an extra dimension to their autonomy. They demonstrate how a pack of AUVs, directed by a "captain" drone, is able to navigate obstacles and retrieve data with minimal intervention. This dramatically enhances performance and might revolutionize the way scientists study the oceans.
