Drones

Key point: Beijing used its parade to show off a lot of weaponry. On October 1, 2019 the Peoples Republic of Chinas celebrated the seventieth anniversary of its official founding after Mao Zedong consolidated the Chinese Communist Partys control over mainlan…

The world is being mapped in 3D one brick, one bench, one building at a time. For things like hyper-accurate augmented reality, autonomous robots and self-driving cars, 2D maps and GPS only get you so far. Apple is building its map with lasers strapped to th…

(Washington, D.C.) Armed Army robot vehicles conducted reconnaissance, called for indirect fire and then, when directed by human decision-makers, attacked and destroyed enemy targets in a recent experiment designed to assess the technical maturity and readine…

DUBAI (Reuters) - President Hassan Rouhani said on Monday Iran would regain access to the international arms market later next year if it stuck to its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and this would prove “a huge political success”. However, while a Unit…

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In a sinister corporate nightmare where your bladder is a redundancy, its not surprising that warehouses would collect workers aggregate corporeal data, and a new company is testing the limits of what well put up with. Bloomberg reports that major manufacturi…

(Washington, D.C.) The Army is preparing to incinerate enemy weapons targets in an upcoming in a laser-off firing of its emerging Stryker-armed 50-kilowatt laser weapon designed to destroy drones, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and incoming enemy missiles. …

Demonstration at the NASA Haughton-Mars Project field research site on Devon Island, High Arctic, of how an Astronaut Smart Glove might allow future astronauts on the Moon, Mars, or beyond to single-handedly teleoperate even complex robotic assets such as dro…

Unless you're Grizzly Adams, there are actually three constant hassles in life: Death, taxes and trash. Dealing with it is a constant grind, and if you're anything like us, it's rarely as easy as taking a bag out the door. Liquid seeps into the bin, odors per…

Key point: Why risk expensive, high-tech carriers, when you could launch drones from any ship? The U.S. Navy is seeking to transform every ship into mini aircraft carriers. Last month the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced the start…