Animal Inspired Technology

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)...

  The US agency DARPA (the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) has recently announced the completion of phase 1 in its Gremlins program, which envisions...

France’s Air Force has found an original method to cope with the risk of drones designed for surveillance or terrorist attack. A group of...

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...

A new project aims to reduce the confidence score of facial detection and recognition by providing false faces that distract computer vision algorithms. A Berlin-based...

Deep reinforcement learning (an aspect of machine learning) was used to generate new development enabling the landing of a fixed wing UAV in urban...

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...

A drone has been equipped with “feathers” to increase its precision during flight. The bio-inspired device can spread or close its wings while flying,...

In a recent US Navy autonomous swarm boat demonstration, waterborne robots collaborated to identify, surround, and harass an enemy vessel. The boats can identify a...

By mimicking how dogs use their smelling abilities, a team of government and university researchers have demonstrated “active sniffing” as a means to improve...

A bendable titanium alloy suspension system inspired by the hard shells and flexible legs of ironclad beetles could hold the key to protecting future...

Most robots are wheeled or tracked, because of the difficulties and expenses entailed in getting robot legs to animate properly. However, a new medium-sized...

Drones will soon be able to manage their work without human input, radar or even GPS satellite navigation, according to a team of researchers...