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Electrical substation

Drone used in attack on US electrical grid last year, report reveals

5 November 2021

A US intelligence report has revealed that a drone was used in an attempt to disable an electrical substation in Pennsylvania last year, in the first known attack of its kind


drone flying over a coastline

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


Laser weapon

US Army will test its most powerful laser weapon ever next year

29 October 2021

Lasers are currently used to shoot down small drones, but a more powerful weapon could take on larger targets


quadruped robot with a rifle

US military may get a dog-like robot armed with a sniper rifle

14 October 2021

A four-legged robot made by Ghost Robotics and outfitted with a sniper rifle and night-vision cameras was displayed at a meeting of the Association of the United States Army


Robotic dog

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


Safer oil tanker seen from above

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


Robot team

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


camcopter-S-100

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


Military drone

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


Fibre optic cables

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


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