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Airborne robot swarms are making complex moves (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania this week released a video that shows their new look in GRASP Lab robotic flying devices. They are now showing flying devices with more complex ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (34) | comments 11 | with audio podcast report

RQ-170 drone's ambush facts spilled by Iranian engineer

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the aftermath of the Iran capture of a US military drone earlier this month now come arguments over how Iran managed to pull it off. An Iranian engineer’s exclusive interview with The Christian Science Monitor has been published, which details how the Iranians captured the drone through ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 17, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 214 | with audio podcast weblog

Asimov's robots live on twenty years after his death

Renowned author Isaac Asimov died 20 years ago today. Although he wrote more than 500 books, the robot stories he began writing at age 19 are possibly his greatest accomplishment. They have become the starting ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Surfboard-sized drones crossing pacific to monitor sea surface

Hundreds of miles off the California coast, four drones about the size of surfboards and are tossing across the Pacific toward Hawaii, controlled by pilots on shore.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Using a phone to fly a drone (w/ video)

Imagine controlling an airplane in flight just by holding your iPhone out in front of you: tilting it in the direction you want the plane to travel, or raising it to make the plane fly higher. Or tapping a point on a map ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Virus hits US drone fleet: report

A computer virus has hit the US Predator and Reaper drone fleet that Washington deploys to hunt down militants, logging the keystrokes of pilots remotely flying missions, Wired magazine reported.

Technology / Other

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 19

Military tests usefulness of smart devices

As a Cobra attack helicopter pilot, Marine Capt. Jim "Hottie" Carlson was running support missions above Afghanistan last summer when it occurred to him that it was taking far too long to find where U.S. troops were under ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 8

Group shows botnet threat in the future may come from the sky

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sven Dietrich, an assistant professor in computer science at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and two of his students have given a demonstration of an aerial drone, that they say could ...

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 13 | with audio podcast weblog

Hacker drone launches airborne cyber attacks

Computer security specialists showed off a homemade drone aircraft Friday capable of launching airborne cyber attacks, hijacking mobile phone calls, or even delivering a dirty bomb.

Technology / Telecom

created Aug 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Japanese inventor develops flying sphere drone

A Japanese defence researcher has invented a spherical observation drone that can fly down narrow alleys, hover on the spot, take off vertically and bounce along the ground.

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 05, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (16) | comments 13

Cesar Herada designs oil sucking drones to help clean the seas after a spill

(PhysOrg.com) -- Oil spills represent a significant danger to the oceans of the world. Many of us watched the DeepWater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico and wished that there was a simple way to clean ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast weblog

Review: iPhone-controlled drone fun but expensive

(AP) -- You can pretty much do anything with your iPhone these days - control your digital video recorder from afar, unlock your car, and now, fly a drone.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2

If only a robot could be more like a cockroach

Studies have indicated that insects rely on their brains to respond to what they feel and see. But for the first time, researchers have shown a direct link between neurons at the center of an insect brain ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unmanned U.S. frigates to stalk submarines (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the U.S. the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is planning to introduce unmanned frigates for long missions shadowing diesel-electric submarines.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (18) | comments 21 | with audio podcast report

Mini drone and iPhone take video games to real world

Drones have become synonymous with US military strikes in hotspots like Afghanistan. But now a French firm has built a mini version piloted by an iPhone that brings video games to the streets.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 17, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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