Bird strikes are a very real danger to planes in flight, and consequently aircraft are required to undergo bird strike testing — but what about drones? With UAV interference at airports on the rise, drone strike […]
Team studies drone strikes on airplanes by firing them into a wall at 500 MPH Continue »
We’ve seen Harvard’s Robobee flying robot evolve for years: After first learning to fly, it learned to swim in 2015, then to jump out of the water again in 2017 — and now it has another
NASA has just announced its next big interplanetary mission: Dragonfly, which will deliver a Mars Rover-sized flying vehicle to the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn with tantalizing life-supporting qualities. The craft will fly from
NASA’s Dragonfly will fly across the surface of Titan, Saturn’s ocean moon Continue »
Wind turbines are a great source of clean power, but their apparent simplicity — just a big thing that spins — belie complex systems that wear down like any other, and can fail with disastrous consequences.
This robot crawls along wind turbine blades looking for invisible flaws Continue »
Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday’s Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 may be the most interesting. If all goes well, a week from launch it will be moving
Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight Continue »
Prosthetic limbs are getting better, but not as quickly as you’d think. They’re not as smart as our real limbs, which (directed by the brain) do things like automatically stretch out to catch ourselves when we
Tripping grad students over and over for science (and better prosthetic limbs) Continue »
NASA’s X-59 QueSST experimental quiet supersonic aircraft will have a cockpit like no other — featuring a big 4K screen where you’d normally have a front window. Why? Because this is one weird-looking plane.
NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet will have a 4K TV instead of a forward window Continue »
There’s a whole lot of ocean on this planet, and we don’t have much of an idea what’s at the bottom of most of it. That could change with the craft and techniques created during the
Teams autonomously mapping the depths take home millions in Ocean Discovery Xprize Continue »
It’s not really clear just yet exactly what all these powerful, agile quadrupedal robots people are working on are going to do, exactly, but even so it never gets old watching them do their thing. The
You can do it, robot! Watch the beefy, 4-legged HyQReal pull a plane Continue »
Got a few thousand bucks and a good deal of engineering expertise? You’re in luck: Stanford students have created a quadrupedal robot platform called Doggo that you can build with off-the-shelf parts and a considerable amount
Stanford’s Doggo is a petite robotic quadruped you can (maybe) build yourself Continue »
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