The Insect-Sized Hopping Robot for Disaster Zones and Search Missions
A new insect-scale robot developed at MIT is reshaping how robotics can be used in challenging environments like disaster zones. Unlike traditional crawling or...
These Cyborg Cockroaches Are Controlled by AI — But Not in...
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...
Forget Drones—These Robot Snakes Inspect Power Lines From the Inside Track
Maintaining large electrical grids is a difficult and often dangerous task. Power lines stretch across vast distances, pass through hard-to-reach terrain, and require regular...
New Underwater Robot Moves Without Sound
A jellyfish like robot paves the way for the new generation of soft underwater robots. Developed by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for...
Unexpected Technique to Detect Chemical Warfare Agents
Offering an innovative, low-cost and rapid means of threat agent detection, a new sensing technique may offer significant advantages for deployed warfighters. Researchers from...
Swarm UAV Capabilities will Enhance Ground Units Effectiveness
Urban canyons limit military communications, mobility, and tactics. These challenges become even more daunting when US forces are in areas they do not control—where...
Meet the Robot Dog Built to Survive Arctic Ice and Freezing...
Collecting data in the Arctic is often as challenging as the research itself. Beneath seemingly solid snow can lie hidden pools of icy water,...
Wasps Can Improve UAV’s Flight Plans
As we all know, technology never rests. Every day we are witnessing progress and advancements and technologies like which we have never seen before....
Beyond Silicon: Scientists Build Living Computers from Engineered Bacteria
Researchers at Rice University are developing a new kind of computing system—one built not from silicon, but from living microbial cells. With $1.99 million...
Drones Could Soon Fly As Flocks
Drones will soon be able to manage their work without human input, radar or even GPS satellite navigation, according to a team of researchers...
AI-Powered Platform Turns Words into Working Robots
A new platform is pushing the boundaries of robotics design by transforming natural language into functional, 3D-printable robots, with no engineering expertise required. Developed...
The Future of Urban Warfare is Machine Gun-Wielding Robot Dogs
A Chinese team of researchers released a study that claims robot dogs equipped with machine guns can rival human accuracy and marksmanship, which could...
Reptilian Robots for Disaster Response Efforts
A pair of reptilian robots originally built for a documentary on the BBC in 2016 are to be used for disaster efforts and possibly...
Robot Squids: The Next Generation of Underwater Warfare
A novel type of an Underwater Unmanned Vehicle (UUV) has recently been showcased. The UUV is a squid shaped drone designed to swim underwater...
U.S. Army Will Demonstrate Drones That Behave Like a Wolf Pack
Later this year, U.S. forces will study UAV swarms within Project Convergence, which will be conducted with the Marine Corps and the Army.
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Optimal Robotic Locomotion is Inspired by Lizards
A robot mimicking a climbing lizard gives major insights into the evolution and advantages of different movements in humans and other animals, according to...
Insect-Like Microphone – The Perfect Spyware
UK based researchers from the University of Strathclyde have managed to create tiny microphones that can autonomously collect sound with little power consumption.
By utilizing...
No Longer Fictional – Robot Swarms
Robot swarms provide robots with capabilities that are not possible in individual robot activity, such as splitting work among themselves, responding to different risks,...
Drone’s New Role
A new technology may encourage us to think about drones as not just scouts or weapons platforms, but as useful tools. Small bodies that...
From Herding Sheep to Guiding Swarms: A New Playbook for Robotics
Coordinating large groups of autonomous systems, whether drones, vehicles, or software agents, remains a difficult problem. In real-world conditions, signals are often noisy, incomplete,...
Compact Spy: Russian Scientists Create Roach-Size Surveillance Robot
Russian scientists at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University recently revealed a cockroach-like robot that is capable of spying on foes in hard to...
Mini-Drones Swarm Launched from Aircraft in Impressive Demo
The Pentagon has tested a swarm of 103 micro-drones launched from planes in California. The information was released to the public only now by...
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How Do You Test a Missile Defense Radar? Fire a Missile...
Missile-defense systems cannot be validated using simulations alone. Radars and combat-management systems ultimately need to encounter physical targets moving through real airspace, allowing crews...
