Animal Inspired Technology

In an article published in the July issue of the journal Acta Materialia, engineers at the University of California, San Diego describe how the...

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...

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...

Being far smaller, and with the added benefit of having quiet electric motors, modern drones are a lot less conspicuous than their manned predecessors....

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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)...

UC Berkeley scientists have found inspiration in the most disgusting of source - the common cockroach. The itty bitty icky critters can squish themselves...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

Robotic assistance in natural disaster scenarios is one of the leading goals of current research and development in the field. The hefty price tag...

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