Toyota is working with Japan's space agency on a vehicle to explore the lunar surface, with ambitions to help people live on the moon by 2040 and then go live on Mars, company officials said Friday.
Much as we may like pigeons, they can make quite a mess of buildings and other structures, potentially posing a health hazard. According to new research, autonomous drones may be ideal for harmlessly chasing the birds away.
DARPA has awarded Phase 2 contracts in its Manta Ray program, which aims to build a series of underwater drones capable of taking on long-range, long-endurance, autonomous ocean missions without any human support for charging, maintenance or logistic
A DARPA drone swarm program for squads of infantry had successful tests. DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program at the Cassidy Combined Arms Collective Training Facility (CACTF) in Fort Campbell, Tennessee. Since 2017, OFFSET has
Two years ago we first heard about the AB5 JetQuad, a jet-powered VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) drone. Well, it's time to meet its new-and-improved successor, the AB6. Among other things, it has an estimated top speed of 250 mph.
The Department of Defense said on July 23 that DJI systems "pose potential threats to national security." The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a 2017 bulletin (pdf) that it was moderately confident that DJI was "providing U.S. crit
A drone ship operated by Saildrone Inc. and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has gone "where no research vessel has ever ventured" ...
A drone ship operated by Saildrone Inc. and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has gone "where no research vessel has ever ventured" to capture footage from the eye of Hurricane Sam.
In the early days of the virus pandemic, we covered multiple stories involving drones equipped with thermal optic sensors and artificial intelligence to detect if a person was feverish.
Drone delivery technology is ready to rock, says Alphabet's Wing spinoff, ushering in a wild new era in which small deliveries can touch down within minutes of being ordered, traveling across town at highway speeds.
Whistleblower Daniel Hale has been sentenced to jail for revealing, amongst other things, that 90% of people killed by US drones are innocent bystanders, not intended targets. This includes US citizens.
Their elite research lab is working with designers from Airion Health LLC to prototype a remote-controlled mini air vehicle that can imitate either insect or bird flight
Could we expect facial recognition-equipped swarm drones to be used against political opponents? What if you read content that is not politically sanitized? Where does it end?
The latest idea that may or may not eventually see the light of day is a new patent for a system where delivery vans would carry items almost to their destination, then send out and direct ground drones to do the final drop-off.
TN has long tracked Technocrat efforts to create autonomous agents of destruction via killer robots and drones, and a new arms race is clearly underway. This is bad news for China's enemies who deploy nuclear submarines. ? TN Editor
NYC-based startup Kelekona is designing an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle that will transport dozens of passengers and make regional travel seamless.
In March 2020, as COVID-19 locked down the world, what may have been the first autonomous drone attacks in history were taking place on a largely unwatched battlefield in Libya.