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...
New Anti-Surveillance Development Will Thwart Facial Recognition
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...
Innovative Technology for UAVs Landing in Urban Environments
Deep reinforcement learning (an aspect of machine learning) was used to generate new development enabling the landing of a fixed wing UAV in urban...
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...
Bio-Inspired Drone Uses “Feathers” for Maneuverability
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,...
Swarm Technology Applied to Autonomous Naval Battlefield
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...
New Technology Mimicks Dogs’ Abilities to Detect Explosives
By mimicking how dogs use their smelling abilities, a team of government and university researchers have demonstrated “active sniffing” as a means to improve...
Protecting Future Tanks from Explosive Impact
A bendable titanium alloy suspension system inspired by the hard shells and flexible legs of ironclad beetles could hold the key to protecting future...
Quadrupt Robot will Climb Over Fences and Detect Mines
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 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...
WATCH: Sepios, The Robotic Cuttlefish
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich are hard at work on a new, cool robo-fish. They call it Sepios, and...
Meet MIT’s Mini Cheetah
MIT’s Super Mini Cheetah is small, cute, inexpensive, and somewhat comical with its stuffed animal head. It’s capable of walking, jumping, running, and turning,...
Watch: This Robot That Swallows Stuff
For those in the know, Festo is a name means something. They’re a German industrial control and automation company for the most part that...
WATCH: SCAMP, The Robot That Flies, Climbs Walls Like An Insect
Meet SCAMP, the Stanford Climbing and Aerial Maneuvering Platform, a robot that can fly, land on vertical walls, and then scamper up them. SCAMP...
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....
Revolutionary New Drone Wings Design
A new as yet British Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Micro-UAV) could herald the future of drones. The innovation behind it stems from what its...
Why Would Anyone Want A Roach Robot? Watch
UC Berkeley scientists have found inspiration in the most disgusting of source - the common cockroach. The itty bitty icky critters can squish themselves...
Watch The Great Leap: An Israeli, Locust Robot
Robotic assistance in natural disaster scenarios is one of the leading goals of current research and development in the field. The hefty price tag...
All Natural: New “Pheromone” Based Robotic Communication
Swarm robotics, an emerging field in robotics, deals with the coordination of multi-robot systems. In a feat of mechanical bio-mimicry, scientists in the field...
Small, Eats Pollution And Walks On Water: The Green Robot
Last month, researchers from Bristol presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Hamburg, Germany a robot that could have...
Active Camouflage To Make Drones (Almost) Invisible
Being far smaller, and with the added benefit of having quiet electric motors, modern drones are a lot less conspicuous than their manned predecessors....
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...
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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...
