Next-gen drones will fly and dive into the sea like pelicans
5 July 2017
Underwater "glider" drones can travel far on little power, but they're slow. The US navy wants to give them a speed boost by letting them take flight
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Italy’s drying lakes imperil rare shrimp species found only here
22 June 2017
The survival of ancient and unique species thriving in mountain lakes in central Italy have been threatened by a double whammy of a quake and climate change
Smart doll fitted with AI chip can read your child's emotions
20 June 2017
A battery-powered chip inside a doll can run AI algorithms without needing to pass information to the cloud and so will help keep data private
Defibrillator drones could save lives before ambulance arrives
13 June 2017
A trial in Sweden has found that drones carrying defibrillators can shave minutes off emergency response time, which could save hundreds of lives a year
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
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
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
Morphing drone takes off like a helicopter, flies like a plane
24 February 2017
A drone for surveying farmers’ fields takes off vertically and then shape-shifts into a plane, making it easier to launch and allowing it to fly for longer
Tiny 3D-printed camera lens could give drones vision like ours
15 February 2017
The camera, measuring less than the width of a few human hairs, combines four lenses to mimic the natural vision of predators with precise detail only in the centre of an image
