A Robot That Lifts 100x Its Weight – Without Motors

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Robots are often limited by the very components that power them. Traditional electric motors provide strength and precision, but they also add weight, rigidity,...
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Meet the Palm-Sized Drone Built for Zero-Visibility Missions

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Small drones are increasingly used in environments where visibility is limited, such as collapsed buildings, smoke-filled structures, and dense vegetation, but most navigation systems...

Even Half-Blind, It Finds the Target: A New Kind of Sensing...

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Robots designed to detect and track chemical sources, such as gas leaks, explosives, or hazardous materials, typically rely on multiple sensors working in perfect...

These Off-Road Vehicles Now Drive Themselves Into Danger Zones

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Ground forces continue to face a familiar challenge: how to move supplies, gather intelligence, and evacuate casualties without exposing personnel to unnecessary risk. In...

Heartbeat Tracking: Innovation or Overreach?

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Locating a person in open terrain, especially in a hostile environment with no continuous communication, remains one of the most complex challenges in search...

The Drone Revolution is Upon Us

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As drones move from niche tools to everyday infrastructure, a core challenge is becoming increasingly clear: current systems struggle to meet the endurance, autonomy,...

How a Sea Creature Is Teaching Robots to “Just Keep Swimming”

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Autonomous robots still struggle with a basic problem that animals solve effortlessly: how to keep moving when conditions suddenly change. Uneven terrain, loss of...

Repairable Infrared Optics Could Cut Costs for Security Systems

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Thermal imaging cameras are increasingly used in security, industrial inspection, automotive safety and emergency response. Yet one component has remained a persistent cost driver:...

Bees Don’t Need GPS, So Is It Possible That Robots Might...

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One of the biggest obstacles to deploying very small autonomous robots is navigation. As machines shrink, the hardware required to determine position and direction...
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A New Kind of Drone Built for Waterborne Activities

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Filming on water has long posed a challenge for aerial cameras. Conventional drones struggle with spray, wind, and the simple problem of takeoff and...
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The AI That Lets Robots Navigate Using Just One Look

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Robots are getting better at sensing their surroundings, but moving safely through unfamiliar spaces remains a bottleneck. Most autonomous systems still depend on building...

Could Cyborg Pigeons Be the Next Surveillance Tool?

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Small drones have become a common tool for surveillance, inspection, and reconnaissance, but they come with limits. Battery life restricts endurance, electric motors generate...

The Quantum Trick That Lets Autonomous Systems Coordinate Without Sending Signals

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Modern autonomous systems depend heavily on continuous communication. Drone swarms, robotic teams, and distributed AI agents typically exchange data wirelessly to coordinate movement, share...

This Spray Seals Open Wounds Almost Instantly

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Severe bleeding remains one of the leading causes of preventable death in trauma situations. On the battlefield, at accident scenes, or during natural disasters,...
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The Rise of Robot Responders in Dangerous Disaster Zones

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Firefighting and disaster response increasingly place human crews in environments that are unstable, toxic, or simply unreachable. Collapsed structures, chemical leaks, tunnel fires, and...
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One Simple Physics Trick Powers These Shape-Shifting Robots

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Robots are often limited by how they move. Wheels struggle with obstacles, legs require complex joints and control, and propellers add weight and energy...

From Tight Spaces to Open Water: A New Kind of Humanoid

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Humanoid robots are often promoted as versatile helpers, but in real-world conditions they remain constrained by rigid frames and limited mobility. Tight spaces, uneven...
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Another Way Autonomous Swarms Are Learning to Think Together

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Coordinating large numbers of unmanned systems has become one of the central challenges of modern autonomy. Most drone operations still depend on centralized control,...
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Why Future Ground Robots Won’t Need Pre-Programmed Gaits

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Robots are often expected to operate where wheels fail: collapsed buildings, uneven ground, mud, ice, or debris-covered floors. Yet most legged robots still struggle...

This Autonomous Aircraft Delivers Supplies in Mountains and Bad Weather

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Supplying forces and communities in remote or high-altitude regions has always been a logistical challenge. Mountainous terrain, limited runways, harsh weather, and damaged infrastructure...
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This Machine Learning Trick Can Turn Infrared Into Clear Vision

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Robots are increasingly deployed in environments that are unsafe or inaccessible for humans, from collapsed buildings and underground tunnels to industrial sites and disaster...

Europe is Rethinking the Role of Light Attack Planes

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European air forces are facing a growing capability gap at the lower end of the combat aviation spectrum. Many light multirole and trainer-based attack...

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These Cyborg Cockroaches Are Controlled by AI — But Not in...

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Controlling insect-based robots has long been an area of interest for researchers looking to combine the mobility and efficiency of living organisms with the...