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...
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...
Flexible Armor Inspired by Marine Biology
In an article published in the July issue of the journal Acta Materialia, engineers at the University of California, San Diego describe how the...
“Bat Radar” To Help Prevent Drone Accidents
Much has been said of the concern about aerial accidents due to drones crashing into other aerial vehicles and it may be that Panoptes System Crop...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Ever Wanted To Be A Fly On The Wall?
Evolution keeps providing humanity with an infinite amount of inspiration, as human technology keeps developing products based on the final results of an improvement...
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...
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...
Original Weapon to Counter Terrorist Threat from Drones
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...
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...
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...
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...
DARPA Developing Unique Use of UASs in Swarm
The US agency DARPA (the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) has recently announced the completion of phase 1 in its Gremlins program, which envisions...
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 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...
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...
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...
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Google’s New CAPTCHA Wants You to Wave at Your Camera
Traditional CAPTCHA systems are facing a growing challenge. As AI models become increasingly capable of recognizing images, solving visual puzzles, and mimicking human behavior,...
