The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Propulsion made an historic first with its experiment in a gas turbine combustor using X-rays. The data will help advance gas turbine engine designs ...
Engineering
Apr 13, 2018
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Artificial intelligence and its impact on weapons of the future has made US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis doubt his own theories on warfare.
Other
Feb 18, 2018
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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed the first unmanned, fixed-wing aircraft that is capable of traveling both through the air and under the water – transitioning repeatedly between sky and sea. ...
Engineering
Feb 15, 2018
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The prevalence of multi-rotor drones has increased dramatically in recent years, but in headwinds, they pitch upwards unpredictably. Engineers from Tohoku University, Japan, have shown that angling the rotor blades of a quad-rotor ...
Engineering
Feb 9, 2018
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Last week's sea rescue of Australian swimmers by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is just the start of a robotics revolution.
Robotics
Jan 25, 2018
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Researchers from Aalto University and Tampere University of Technology in Finland have addressed new possibilities for efficient detection of drones by relying on future 5G communication systems. There, mmWave base stations ...
Engineering
Jan 23, 2018
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A Maine robotics company is one of four companies competing to build the Army's next generation of battlefield support vehicles.
Engineering
Dec 24, 2017
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Researchers have developed a new imaging system that is designed to monitor the health of crops in the field or greenhouse. The new technology could one day save farmers significant money and time by enabling intelligent ...
Optics & Photonics
Dec 7, 2017
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The next frontier for unmanned military drones may not be solely in the skies. It could be undersea.
Engineering
Nov 2, 2017
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The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has entered into a license agreement with MicroLink Devices, Inc. (Niles, IL) to commercialize NREL's patented inverted metamorphic (IMM) multijunction ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 31, 2017
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