Airbus To Release Anti-UAV System
Many defence experts are worried about the increasing prevalence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and their potential to be used for spying or terrorist...
UAS Market to Reach $2.3 Billion by 2017
Homeland security and commercial unmanned aircraft system (UAS) are used by countries to protect their borders and get aerial views of commercial projects. Complex...
China’s Baidu Releases AI Code
Google and Facebook are not only some of the most sought out companies to work for, they also release just enough code and core...
Pentagon Seeks Next Phase In Laser Weapon Technology
The Pentagon has played around with aircraft armed with lasers in the past, with the most famous recent example being the Air Force’s missile-zapping...
US Government pledges nearly $4 billion to kickstart self-driving cars
US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx revealed plans for a six month initiative to prepare for a world of autonomous vehicles, as well as...
Russia’s War Robots Aren’t All They’re Cracked Up To Be
In the future, robots might do most of the fighting on the battlefield, but war robots aren’t all they’re cracked up to be, for...
WATCH: Underwater Robot That Will Clean Fukushima
After an earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastated Japan’s coastal areas and badly damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, plans were...
5 Trends in Robotics To Watch For In 2016
2016 could well become the year of the robot. Writing for the MIT Technology Review, Will Knight identifies five trends to watch for in...
FAROS – The Wall Climbing, Flying, Firefighting Drone
Fires in skyscrapers are considered some of the most dangerous, as was depicted in the 1974 American disaster film “Towering Inferno.” To help firefighters,...
Nadine, The World’s Most Human-like Robot Unveiled
Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have unleashed their latest creation on the university’s campus: the world’s most human-like robot. Nadine, as the...
WATCH: Autonomous UAV Landing On Top Of Moving Car
A group of German engineers have managed to get an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to autonomously land on a car travelling at 75 km/h....
DARPA Developing Ocean-floor Dormant Pods
Imagine robot pods lying soundlessly at the bottom of the ocean, awaiting instructions to surface and launch long dormant drones. It may sound like...
Intel Acquires Ascending To Break Into Drone Game
Semiconductor giant Intel has recently announced that it has entered an agreement to acquire Ascending Technologies, A German unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) software manufacturer....
Humans Still Most Important Factor In UAV Incidents
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is using special training to improve the way Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) crews operate the system.
Crew Resource management...
Watch: How to Trap And Capture A Drone
The more popular unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) become, the more of a nuisance can they be to some. Sometimes, they can even pose a...
Man Charged With Smuggling US UAV Parts to Pakistan
The United States is trying to prosecute a man accused of trying to smuggle parts for military-grade drones to the Pakistani military.
Syed Vaqar...
Computers Can Be Fooled By Optical Illusions, Raising Security Concerns
Computer vision has made great strides over recent years. Machines can now recognise objects nearly as well as humans. However, the similarity does not...
New Technique To Increase UAV Manoeuverability
Researchers at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics in China have developed a new technology that enables Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to safely maneuver in...
Watch The Robot With A Worm’s Mind
As the name implies, work on Artificial Intelligence is essentially an attempt to create a synthetic mind. While there are many ways of achieving...
Think You Could Lie To Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is getting increasingly better year by year. It can answer questions, find patterns in data, and even drive cars. Now, researchers...
UAV Strategy Could Help Malta With Borders
Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for border control, surveillance, and humanitarian operations could provide the Armed Force of Malta (AFM) with capabilities beyond those...
AI Can Now Learn As Fast As Humans
According to a recent article published in the journal Science, researchers have developed a computational model that allows Artificial Intelligence (AI) to learn in...
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This New App Lets Soldiers Control Mortars From a Smartphone
Mortar teams depend on fire-control systems to calculate firing solutions, manage targeting data, and coordinate indirect fire missions. Traditionally, many of these functions have...
