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Smart jacket and VR headset let you pilot a drone with your body

12 June 2017

By converting body movements into commands, a pimped-up jacket could give people a more intuitive and fun way to pilot aerial drones

Underwater drones use sound to send snaps of the ocean floor

31 May 2017

Underwater unmanned vehicles that scour the ocean floor for submerged mines can now beam back their images to human operators in close to real-time

Drones won't work very well underground

24 May 2017

Robot inspector helps check bridges for dangerous defects

5 May 2017

Performing safety checks on bridges is slow and expensive work. A new autonomous robot can do the job quickly and cheaply

The Easter egg puzzles that are hiding inside video games

1 May 2017

Online communities are spending years picking over new releases, chasing up obscure references and cracking codes in the quest to find hidden messages

Eyes on the skies: ensuring drones enhance city life

26 April 2017

We need a wider public conversation about the drones that will soon be widespread in urban areas, says innovation charity Nesta

UK does more to protect marine areas overseas than at home

24 April 2017

The government is failing to designate marine protected areas off its coast as promised, says a parliamentary report

Drones listen in on bats to reveal their in-flight secrets

21 April 2017

Using ultrasonic detectors, drones in the air and on the water are detecting bat calls, in the hope of finding out what the mammals get up to when flying

Drone maps mines to explore unsafe caverns and seek out minerals

11 April 2017

Australian government researchers are equipping drones with cameras and sonar so they can explore parts of old mines that are unsafe for people to visit

War by any means: The story of DARPA

22 March 2017

With the nature of war changing fast, what goes on in the Pentagon’s most secretive research agency, asks the first insider to lift the lid in The Imagineers of War