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: Autonomous Trucks Drive Across Europe
A fleet of trucks drove across Europe at the beginning of April. This wouldn’t be frontpage news if it weren’t for the fact that...
C-Dome Nears Operational Status
By ARIE EGOZI
The C-Dome Naval defense system developed by Rafael is based on the Iron Dome and designed to effectively protect combat vessels against...
There’s More Than GPS: A New Type Of Locationing
GPS is king, but it can still be unreliable. A busy street surrounded by skyscrapers won’t be getting great signal, nor will the inside...
US, Russia, China Entering Hypersonic Arms Race
A new arms race is at hand, and it could break everything we think we know of the speed of sound. Hypersonic weapons capable...
DuPont unveils next generation firefighter protection
DuPont Protection Solutions has unveiled a new game-changing technology to help better protect firefighters – DuPont Nomex Nano for thermal liners in turnout gear...
DARPA’s Grand Challenge Hopes To Automate Software Patching
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is trying to take cyber defence to the next level with the help of some friendly...
Can Israel Keep Its Place In The UAV Market?
For many years Israel has been one of the top UAV exporters in the world.
Unmanned air vehicles (UAV) have become a very important item...
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...
Your Face Is Big Data
Russian photography student, Yegor Tsvetkov, has created a demonstration that shows quite how easy it is for computers to identify individuals - complete strangers,...
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...
Europe Wants to Keep Track of Migrant Route Surveillance With UAS
EU border patrol agency Frontex announced recently that it intends to use remotely piloted aircraft for maritime surveillance, adding drones to its existing portfolio...
Are We Overdependent On GPS
Satellite expert Roger McKinley warns that “we've become overdependent” on GPS, in an interview with Vox. The former president of the Royal Institute of...
Chinese Self-Driving Car Triumph In 2000km Test
China’s self-driving car testing is kicking into high-gear. Two autonomous vehicles built by Changan Automobile have completed a 2000 km journey in six days...
US Navy’s Futuristic Destroyer Is Too Stealthy
The US Navy’s brand new futuristic destroyer has one little problem: it’s too quiet. The Navy’s new Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer is so quiet...
IAF UAVs Require Advance Data Systems
The Israeli air force (IAF) is now better equipped to use the intelligence products of its UAV's.
That is a step that was expected and...
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...
Who Is The CIA Investing In?
We’ve written recently about Skincential Sciences, a skincare manufacturer with a curious financial backer: the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This is not the...
A UAV carrier – evolution or revolution?
By Arie Egozi
Unmanned air vehicles (UAV) systems carrier? Well, not in the near future but while until some years ago, the idea would have...
Chinese Leaker Sentenced To Death
A Chinese computer engineer has been sentenced to death for leaking more than 150,000 classified documents. Huang Yu, 48, was sentenced for leaking the...
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,...
Weapon Systems in Packages – An Advantage?
The armed forces want more and more "packages" of weapon systems to enhance their combat capabilities, and that demand makes it possible for Israeli...
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These AI Agents Were Supposed to Follow the Rules—Then They Took...
AI agents are increasingly being allowed to browse websites, write code and interact with external systems with limited human supervision. That autonomy creates a...
