Team studies drone strikes on airplanes by firing them into a wall at 500 MPH
Bird strikes are a very real danger to planes in flight, and consequently aircraft are required to u ...
Tiny Robobee X-Wing powers its flight with light
We’ve seen Harvard’s Robobee flying robot evolve for years: After first learning to fly, ...
NASA’s Dragonfly will fly across the surface of Titan, Saturn’s ocean moon
NASA has just announced its next big interplanetary mission: Dragonfly, which will deliver a Mars R ...
This robot crawls along wind turbine blades looking for invisible flaws
Wind turbines are a great source of clean power, but their apparent simplicity — just a big thing th ...
Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight
Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday’s Falcon Heavy launch, the Pla ...
Tripping grad students over and over for science (and better prosthetic limbs)
Prosthetic limbs are getting better, but not as quickly as you’d think. They’re not as s ...
NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet will have a 4K TV instead of a forward window
NASA’s X-59 QueSST experimental quiet supersonic aircraft will have a cockpit like no other & ...
Teams autonomously mapping the depths take home millions in Ocean Discovery Xprize
There’s a whole lot of ocean on this planet, and we don’t have much of an idea what’s at the bottom ...
You can do it, robot! Watch the beefy, 4-legged HyQReal pull a plane
It’s not really clear just yet exactly what all these powerful, agile quadrupedal robots peopl ...
Stanford’s Doggo is a petite robotic quadruped you can (maybe) build yourself
Got a few thousand bucks and a good deal of engineering expertise? You’re in luck: Stanford st ...