Drone’s Airbag to Solve Collision Problem
Drones are becoming a more ubiquitous part of our everyday lives, taking on tasks from inspecting bridges for cracks to delivering packages to your...
Perfect Candidate to Airdrop Sensors in Dangerous Sites
The way military forces drop food and essential supplies from helicopters in disaster zones has inspired scientists, who sought a solution for reaching and...
Bio-Inspired Technology to Help Drones Navigate in the Dark
A new sensor technology with potential for application in drones has been inspired by mosquitoes. Some mosquitoes are night owls of the insect world,...
Robotic Swarm Developed for Challenging Missions
Many technological developments have been inspired by Nature. Swarming insect-like robots developed for space as well as for use in mining, industrial and search...
Bomb-Sniffing Dogs to Be Replaced by Technology
An innovative solution for aircraft and airport security operations might replace bomb-sniffing dogs. The “electronic nose” device that uses biological cells to sniff dangerous...
Camouflage of Stealth Aircraft Inspired by Nature
A new research with a wide range of applications has been inspired by ultra-black butterflies. The findings could help engineers design thinner ultra-black coatings...
Are Tentacles the Future of Robotic Grippers?
A team of scientists and researchers from Beihang University in China and Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have been working together to...
Robots Capable of Sweating to Cool Down
We as humans sweat pretty often. It helps us regulate our body temperature whenever we’re overheated, cooling us off and lowering the risk of...
Squid Inspired Camouflage Fabric
Engineers have been experimenting with octopus-inspired robotic tentacles for some time. Now, they are looking at the octopus’ camouflage ability for inspiration towards developing...
Robotic Dog Lands First Civilian Job
Spot the robotic dog has just landed its first civilian job. Developed by Boston Dynamics, the robotic dog has just landed a full-time job...
Pigeon Inspired Flying Robot Developed
Humans have always been jealous of birds’ ability to fly. It wasn’t until the early 20th century, when the Wright brothers managed to become...
The Marines Are Looking For Robotic Crabs
The United States Marine Corps have recently submitted a proposal to the Office of Naval Research to begin researching to develop small, crawling unmanned...
Hagfish Slime and Spider Webs to Combat Enemy Ships
The Panama City Division of the United States Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC PCD) is working to develop a non-lethal tool used to significantly...
Police Force Begin Operating Robotic Dog
The Massachusetts State Police force has recently become the first law enforcement agency in the United States to operate a robotic dog during an...
Insect-Inspired Navigation Method Developed
Many technological innovations are inspired by Nature. Flying insects were the inspiration to the development of a miniaturized gyroscope, a special sensor used in...
Fish Inspired Armor
The United States Air Force has recently been at work studying how a species of fish living in the Amazon River is capable of...
How Dragonflies Can Change and Improve Missile Defense
Researchers from the Sandia National Laboratories have been researching the common dragonfly for inspiration to help develop more efficient and effective missile defense systems....
Robotic Solution for Tunnel Sensing
A new robot snake is designed for use in urban rescue missions, as well as military applications. This mechanical sensor platform can slither into...
This Drone Can Swim and Glide in the Air
Hybrid drones, capable of both swimming underwater and flying in the air, are becoming a thing of the near future. Researchers at the Imperial...
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...
Tiny Robots Developed to Communicate Like Ants
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) have managed to develop ant inspired robots that can communicate with each other, assign...
Swarm of Robotic Insects in Development
A tiny battery-less drone is being developed by the Harvard Microrobotics Lab and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. RoboBee is a tiny...
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This 3D-Printed Interceptor Could Become a New Layer of Air Defense
The rapid spread of inexpensive drones has created a growing challenge for air-defense systems. Traditional surface-to-air missiles can be effective against unmanned aircraft, but...
