Drones

Drones can fly like birds, but that’s pretty much where comparisons with our feathered friends end. Well, unless you build an experimental drone like PigeonBot, the unusual biomimetic creation developed by researchers at Stanford University. Boasting a pair of “biohybrid morphing wings,” it uses real feathers to test out a…

The U.S. Air Force soon could deploy a radar-evading target drone. One that easily could evolve into a front-line warplane. California-based Sierra Technical revealed its prototype drone in photos the company released in mid-January 2020. The Fifth-Generati…

As the total cost of cybercrime reaches into trillions of dollars and continues to rise, an Israeli firm called Intezer — which has built a way to analyse, identify and eradicate malware by way of an ordering system similar to what’s used when mapping out DNA — has raised $15 million to…

Try as they might, even the most advanced roboticists on Earth struggle to recreate the effortless elegance and efficiency with which birds fly through the air. The “PigeonBot” from Stanford researchers takes a step towards changing that by investigating and …

Technology 16 January 2020 By David Hambling Andy Dean Photography/Alamy Stock PhotoMysterious drone swarms have been seen flying in Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming at night since December, sometimes over locations believed to house nuclear missile silos. A federal task force has been formed to investigate the drones’ origin and purpose.…

Before your kids even think about the possibilities of drones with cameras to create viral video content, they should master the basics of flight. This affordable four-propeller drone (or quadcopter) is an excellent starting point. With a diameter of only 4.5…

The U.K.s Heathrow airport has installed an advanced drone detection system to help it pinpoint unauthorized remotely-controlled aircraft flying into its airspace. The move follows repeated incursions into the airports airspace in recent years, including eff…

The U.S. Department of Interior (DoI) is set to permanently ground its fleet of around 1,000 drones because of fears over security, the Financial Times (FT) reported. The remotely controlled quadcopters were taken out of service in October 2019 pending a thorough review of the civilian drone program amid concerns…

Boeing is preparing to test prototype wingman drones, apparently at a secretive site in the Australian Outback. The Australian subsidiary of the Chicago-based plane-maker is developing the so-called Airpower Teaming System using company funds as well as $27 …

Image copyrightSPRI University of CambridgeImage caption Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Edgar Evans (all pictured) and Lawrence Oates reached the South Pole. They died attempting to return A scientific institution founded in the wake of …