Animal Inspired Technology

Diving in icy water is extremely dangerous to humans. As more Arctic sea lanes open up and the US Navy increases its readiness to...

Seawater is often turbid, clouded with organic matter and reducing visibility to mere feet. A new concept in underwater detection takes its inspiration from...

Stopping smuggler’s boats or enemy vessels can sometimes be a complex challenge. Currently, the US Navy stops boats particularly suspected smugglers by using a...

In recent years, robotics experts have taken a page from the traditional Japanese practice of origami and come up with light and flexible –...

Shark skin offers a near-perfect design for gliding effortlessly through water. Researchers are working to translate that evolutionary advantage onto metal surfaces. Eventually, the...

A new study by a group of researchers at ETH Zurich has modeled the swarm behavior of fish in order to apply the conclusions...

iHLS is delighted to announce the Conference and Exhibition on Unmanned Systems and Robotics - AUS&R 2018, the leading event held for the sixth...

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...

Drones have their limitations. A drone can be seen and heard which is counterproductive to the purpose of surveillance drones. People on the ground...

An insect-sized flying robot could help with time-consuming tasks like surveying crop growth on large farms or sniffing out gas leaks. These robots soar...

As it turns out, squids can make quite the contribution to military innovation. A research published recently by Northeastern University professor Leila Deravi demonstrates...

New research from the University of Washington suggests that the Egyptian fruit bat is using similar techniques to those preferred by modern-day military and...

Next-generation drones, built to track and hunt other drones, might be designed using hunting principles used by one of nature's most capable predators. Researchers...

A “quantum material” that mimics a shark’s ability to detect the minute electric fields of small prey has been tested. with potential applications from...

One of the challenges drone developers face is the flight time: the ability to stay in the air for long enough to be useful,...

Search and rescue operations in disaster-stricken areas often lack information about the terrain and the actual situation. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic...

The Syrian civil war has brought chemical weapons back to the center stage in terms of international arsenals and defense methods. The U.S. military...

A new type of robot can grow across long distances without moving its whole body. Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of...

The US military is relentlessly working on new drone technology developments. These efforts include new types of drones like autonomous boats and small swarming...

Robotics company Sarcos has developed the Guardian S - a rugged, waterproof snakebot that’s capable of shimmying across virtually any type of terrain, through...

A new method of creating flexible, printable electronics that combine sensors and processing circuitry was developed by MIT researchers. The work was supported by...

Systems designers have developed a new bio-inspired strategy for making quadcopters and other drones resilient to collisions. Current crash-protection designs for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...