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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter photographed by the Perseverance rover on April 5

NASA is about to fly a helicopter on another planet for the first time

8 April 2021

The Ingenuity helicopter, which hitched a ride to Mars aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, is getting ready to perform its first test flight on 12 April

Here's hoping for robo-swarms very soon

10 March 2021

What’s next for the Mars Perseverance rover? Your questions answered

19 February 2021

Now that NASA’s Perseverance rover has landed safely on Mars, it will start taking samples and release the Ingenuity helicopter to test flying drones on other planets

Perfect encryption may not be worth having (3)

17 February 2021

Insect brains will teach us how to make truly intelligent robots

16 February 2021

We need a revolution in artificial intelligence and learning from insects will help us achieve it, says James Marshall

Dragonflies do a backwards roll to fly upright – even when unconscious

10 February 2021

To get out of an upside-down position, dragonflies do a backwards roll to stabilise their flight – even when they’re unconscious, and if their wings are propped open, they do it when they’re dead

Bats soar to heights of 1600 metres by riding late night winds

4 February 2021

By fitting bats with GPS collars we have discovered that the nocturnal fliers seek out slopes where late night winds are swept upwards, carrying them high into the air

Remote Control review: Fusing Ghanaian stories with a sci-fi thriller

20 January 2021

Nnedi Okorafor's Remote Control mixes West African folk tales with a sci-fi mystery in a futuristic version of Ghana, as a young girl finds a meteor and gains a deadly power