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A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies
just now (834+ words) Mechanical engineer Raphael Zufferey's lab at MIT contains a giant tank filled with bright turquoise water, an array of fans that can whip up a powerful wind, and small flying robots perched everywhere you look. It's the robots that are…...
Oak Forest Robotics CEO, Gabriel Dean Roberts Publishes 'The Physics of Privacy,' Introducing 'Estate
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A 20-pound Swiss drone measures how much steel is left in a ship's hull from inside a tank still full of water, blinking its data back through blue light, and a classification society signed off on it, which is what turns a clever machine into a billable job
3+ hour, 2+ min ago (1543+ words) Radio does not work underwater. Most people know that much. What gets skipped is why: salt water conducts electricity, and a conductor absorbs radio waves instead of passing them along. The higher the frequency, the faster the signal dies. Navies…...
From Retired to Ready: Alex Machuca Rebuilds Drones for the Future of Swarm Flight
7+ hour, 4+ min ago (567+ words) What began as a set of aging, do-it-yourself quadcopter kits is now becoming a platform for advanced autonomous research, thanks to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University'Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS)'student Alex Machuca. "Outside the UAS world, I describe it as taking retired…...
Custom drone flies for 261 minutes as You Tuber smashes Guinness endurance record
57+ min ago (387+ words) Custom-built drone stayed airborne for over four hours A Cape Town You Tuber and drone pilot has secured a new Guinness World Record after keeping a custom-built multirotor drone airborne for 4 hours, 21 minutes, and 39 seconds. Rather than relying on a…...
A brain-controlled haptic "coach" for safer and smarter rehabilitation
5+ hour, 42+ min ago (452+ words) Researchers have proposed a new rehabilitation design that uses brain signals not to control movement directly, but to decide when and how strongly simple haptic cues should be delivered. Combined with wearable devices based on Mc Kibben artificial muscles, this…...
Stampede's Robot Rodeo features battle of bale-busting bots
1+ hour, 16+ min ago (503+ words) When Lyla Boychuk first heard about the 2026 Calgary Stampede Robot Rodeo's Agtech challenge, she thought she might be building tractors. Instead, the young roboticist found herself duking it out, gladiator-style, on one of Western Canada's biggest stages. "We want [youth]…...
Humanoid robots controlled by surgeons did world-first operation on live pigs
1+ hour, 50+ min ago (501+ words) Preclinical trial is testing the feasibility of humanoid robots in surgery. Humanoid robots have surgically removed the gallbladders from living animals in an unprecedented medical experiment'but not as autonomous machines capable of replacing human doctors. Instead, skilled human surgeons remotely…...
Flying wheelie bins hit the spot for RAAF Hercules precision drone drops
1+ hour, 36+ min ago (213+ words) Get unlimited access. Save 50% with our mid-year sale. Defence & Veterans" Affairs Shoving a pallet of vital supplies, attached to a parachute, out the back of a Lockheed Hercules to people in need is a practice at least 70 years old. But…...
Powered by Hivemind: Autonomous Teaming and Strike at the Edge
2+ hour, 32+ min ago (373+ words) Explore the latest news and developments from Shield AI. At Shield AI, we're not just building software; we're revolutionizing defense technology. Shield AI's Hivemind autonomy software has been integrated on over 30 platforms to date, from Group 1 drones to Group 5 collaborative…...