Animal Inspired Technology

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...

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...

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...

The United States Marine Corps have recently submitted a proposal to the Office of Naval Research to begin researching to develop small, crawling unmanned...

An innovative solution for aircraft and airport security operations might replace bomb-sniffing dogs. The “electronic nose” device that uses biological cells to sniff dangerous...

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

There are more insects on earth than any other animal. Possibly because of this, Korea recently announced the development of new micro-robots inspired by...

A new version of a bird-inspired flying robot has demonstrated the ability to take off without assistance and sustain flight at lower speeds—an advance...

There are two methods to detect submarines at sea: active and passive sonar. Active sonar broadcasts pulses of sound into the water. When 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...

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...

A new technology inspired by nature could help engineers improve the control of autonomous search and rescue robots designed to operate on sand, grass...

The Gaza strip tunnels are tuneels being dug by the Hamas and other terror organizations inside the strip as part of their fight against...

Researchers from Cambridge University have recently developed jelly-like stretchy batteries that could be used for wearable devices or soft robotics. Inspired by the muscle cells...

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...

When there is a gas leak in a large building or at an industrial site, human firefighters need to go in with gas sensing...

A team of scientists and researchers from Beihang University in China and Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have been working together to...

Autonomous flight at insect scale has long been a challenge in robotics. Existing microrobots can hover or move along controlled paths, but they typically...

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 novel technology based on machine learning could replace sniffer dogs in finding explosives. High-tech sensors made from genetically-modified living cells can detect odors...

The Evolution Eagle is a revolutionary covert drone that looks like a bird of prey. Guard From Above is a Dutch company known for its...

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