EU drones could drop life rafts to migrants in the Mediterranean Sea
29 October 2021
The European Maritime Safety Agency has contracted drone company Tekever to use uncrewed aircraft for search-and-rescue missions
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Artificial insect-inspired ‘brain’ can guide robotic dog through maze
13 October 2021
UK start-up Opteran Technologies has demonstrated a system that can guide a robot through a maze using far less energy and weight than conventional approaches
Decaying oil tanker near Yemen could trigger humanitarian disaster
11 October 2021
Safer, an oil tanker in the Red Sea, has been abandoned and could unleash a catastrophic oil spill that would leave millions of people without food or clean water
Team of underground rescue robots wins $2 million DARPA prize
7 October 2021
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $2 million to a team of quadruped and flying robots capable of exploring underground caves
'Ionic wind' could power planes, save energy and fight wild weather
6 October 2021
Airflow induced by electric fields, known as ionic wind, has already propelled a small aircraft – now engineers think it could help to ease the clean-energy transition and protect infrastructure from natural winds
Drones are 'sniffing' ship exhaust for illegal fuel in European waters
29 September 2021
Maritime authorities in the EU are now using drones to “sniff” the exhaust fumes from ships and catch operators using illegal, sulphur-rich fuel
AI is helping US Air Force to decide which targets to strike
28 September 2021
The US Air Force has used an AI as part of its "kill chain" - the process of gathering intelligence and directing weapons to destroy a target - though details of the incident are limited
City-wide quantum data network in China is the largest ever built
17 September 2021
A quantum network linking 40 computers in Hefei, China, is the largest demonstration to date of how a future quantum internet might work
Dolphins spotted trapping fish in mud rings in the Caribbean
6 August 2021
Some dolphins churn up seafloor mud to form a ring that traps fish – and now we know the technique has been developed independently by dolphins near Belize and near Florida
US Navy is developing a solar-powered plane that can fly for 90 days
4 August 2021
Aerospace company Skydweller is working with the US Navy to develop a solar-powered aircraft that can stay aloft for 90 days and be used as a communications relay or to escort ships in the ocean
