No Need for Fuel – This Spacecraft Uses Air to Propel...
This satellite system has no fuel but rather sucks in the air to propel itself forward, providing unlimited propulsion for longer-duration orbital operations. While...
WATCH: This Armour Disintegrates Bullets
Since bullets appeared on the scene a few hundred years ago, nothing has been the same. If once some chainmail or plate armour was...
Smarter Mapping for Search-and-Rescue Robots
Researchers have developed a new approach to robotic mapping that could help autonomous systems operate in unstable or cluttered environments, such as collapsed buildings...
Indoor Solar to Power the Internet of Things
In today’s age of smart technology, our houses are full of smart devices- from smart Wi-Fi-connected home security systems to smart toilets, the Internet...
New Revolutionary ‘Lab-on-a-Drone’ System for Air Pollution
Researchers made a breakthrough towards better understanding and combating air pollution, unveiling an innovative "lab-on-a-drone" system for real-time air pollution detection. This invention is designed...
NASA Drone Test is Good News for Air Taxis
Researchers at a NASA Research Center conducted a successful test in which they released several drones and let them fly unobserved to see if...
4 More Cool New Gadgets For 2016
Pocket VR by Speck: While Oculus Rift certainly has most of the world talking, other virtual reality products are making their way to the...
Back to the Future? Special Operations’ New Vehicle
French special forces will begin testing Flyboard Air - an individual air-mobility platform. France’s Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly said the decision...
Forget Tilting: A New Way for Drones to Fly
Traditional drones rely on a simple principle: to move forward, they must tilt. This dependence on body orientation limits maneuverability, slows response time, and...
AI Builds Winning Strategy For Humans
Future AI tools could help human commanders break opponents in real battles. Gamebreaker program by US security research agency DARPA wants to turn the design...
DARPA’s Spaceplane Could Soon Launch
The space race is heating up again in recent years, but this time it’s not major world powers that are competing against each other,...
Meet DARPA’s Flying Gremlins
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a project that aims to launch volley of small drones from military aircraft...
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...
Soon You Could “Upload” Knowledge To Your Brain
In The Matrix, Neo learns kung fu in mere seconds, if learn is even the right words for it. The information is simply “uploaded”...
The Future of Secure QR Codes?
The future of more secure QR codes is coming from a very unexpected direction- beetle shells. In a new study published in Advanced Optical...
3 Cool Technologies For The Future Soldier
Futuristic designs for new military uniforms were recently unveiled by the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) as part of plans to modernise UK troops'...
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...
Fog Computing – The Future of IoT
IoT (Internet of Things) networks connect user devices with everyday household and professional devices, but the challenge is reaching a balance between functionality and...
DARPA’s Plan To Counter Radar With AI
China and Russia are hard at work to develop ever more capable radar systems, but the Pentagon has a plan to counter them with...
Watch: Russian Robot Makes A Dash For Freedom
A crafty robot was able to escape the clutches of scientific research and make a dash for freedom outside a research lab in Perm,...
Global Strategies to Accelerate AI in Science and Research
The International Science Council's Center for Science Futures published the report "Preparing National Research Ecosystems for AI: Strategies and Progress in 2024" to address...
Ford Working On Autonomous Driving In Snow Conditions
The recent collision between the Google Car and a Californian bus notwithstanding, autonomous vehicle generally manage to get around quite well. They “see” the...

















































