WATCH: Tiny Robo-Bee
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You won’t be gifting it during this holiday season, but in a couple of years you’ll be able to buy a device that lets...
Robots Can Now Look Inside Your Luggage
Luggage lying around unattended at an airport are an obvious cause for concern. The hazardous task of getting up close to inspect what could...
NASA Begins Work On Next-Gen Supersonic “Quiet” Jet
Supersonic passenger jet travel could be making a comeback, now that NASA received the go-ahead for preliminary work on a “low-boom” supersonic plane that...
China To Set Up Its Own “DARPA”
China is no small fish in the weapons exports pool, but its military technology is still lagging behind its competitors. To overcome this, China...
MIT’s New Robot Can Walk Out Of 3D Printer
In a world-first, MIT has 3D printed robots: solids, liquids, hydraulics, and all. This impressive success could hasten the age of affordable robotics, as...
All The Gadgets Coming To Your Next Car
The latest and greatest in new automotive gadgets usually arrive at the top end of the market, but here are some innovations that could...
Soon Drones Could 3D Print Buildings
Swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) will soon be printing emergency shelter for survivors of natural disasters, or buildings, or any large structure. This...
Flying Robot Taxis Coming To Vegas (video inside)
Chinese manufacturer EHang has been granted permission to conduct testing for its people-carrying autonomous drone in Las Vegas.
The EHang 184 was unveiled at...
WATCH: This Tiny Robot Could Save Hostages
The Picobug, as its name implies, is small. It weighs just 30 grammes, but it can do a whole lot: fly, walk, and (very...
Researchers Create Nanobots That Can Fix Electronics
The next big thing in science may be very small indeed. A new study in the journal Nano Letters presents revolutionary tiny robots that...
Xiaomi Mi Drone Undercuts DJI
Xiaomi is known for its smartphones. One of its latest, the Mi 5, is a direct competitor to Samsung’s Galaxy S7. The Mi 5...
The Next Five Years In The World Of Drones
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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...
Brain-Machine Interfaces Come One Step Closer
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is looking to develop a working mind-computer interface, as we’ve written here before. But what uses...
Watch: A Hologram You Can Touch
Star Trek predicted and inspired many technologies we often take for granted these days. From automatic sliding doors to portable, handheld communication devices -...
You Won’t Believe What This Robotic Hand Can Do!
Not too long ago, when people thought of prosthetic limbs, the image they likely had was of a pirate sporting a wooden leg (and...
The Rook: Remote-Controlled Drone For Indoors
Ever been away from home and just had to check that everything is a-ok back at the fortress? What about that one corner that...
Airbus Launches Cargo Drone Challenge
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New Software Predicts Who’s A Terrorist
A good poker face used to mean that no one could tell what you’re thinking. An Israeli startup is shattering this reality with a...
Aquila: Facebook’s Internet In The Sky
Facebook has a major ambition: connecting everyone on the planet. To achieve this goal, the company is working on new approaches to ground-based communications...
Watch: DARPA’s Cool New Tech
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