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Teledyne FLIR Defense has unveiled its Lightweight Vehicle Surveillance System (LVSS) with advanced counter-unmanned aerial system capabilities. Mounted on a Ford F-250 standard truck chassis, it deploys in under a minute to counter drone swarms.Contin… Continue reading Teledyne LVSS anti-drone system tracks up to 500 targets at once
A team of engineers led by Alon Gorodetsky at the University of California, Irvine, has come up with a new infrared-reflecting, metalized polymer film inspired by the color-changing skin of the squid. The tunable insulating properties of the composite … Continue reading Squid skin inspires versatile new “tunable” insulating material
With the invasion of Ukraine severing its cooperations with Russia’s Roscosmos, the European Space Agency (ESA) is now considering alternatives to get its ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover to Mars without Russian support hardware.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading ESA looks for new ride to Mars for its Rosalind Franklin rover
Italian luxury brand Bulgari has released what it says is the world’s thinnest mechanical watch. Called the Octo Finissimo Ultra, it is the latest in the company’s Octo collection of watches and has a thickness of a mere 1.8 mm (0.07 in).Continue Readi… Continue reading The $440K Octo Finissimo Ultra is the world’s thinnest mechanical watch
Thanks to research at the University of California, Davis, future astronauts could eat salads containing genetically engineered lettuce to get their dose of a drug designed to ward off the effects of weightlessness on bone loss.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading How eating lettuce could help deep-space astronauts fight bone loss
Researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory have developed a handheld robot that can help minimally trained responders to control severe internal bleeding in victims of traumatic injury, by helping them insert a needle and catheter into a major blood vesse… Continue reading Handheld robot uses AI to help first responders stem bleeding
Boeing’s Loyal Wingman is now officially the “MQ-28A Ghost Bat.” The new military designator and name that will be used by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) for the autonomous combat drone was announced during a ceremony at the Amberley Royal Austr… Continue reading Boeing’s Loyal Wingman drone is now officially the MQ-28A Ghost Bat
MIT’s mini cheetah robot has broken its own personal best (PB) speed, hitting 8.72 mph (14.04 km/h) thanks to a new model-free reinforcement learning system that allows the robot to figure out on its own the best way to run and allows it to adapt to di… Continue reading MIT’s mini cheetah sets new speed PB by learning from experience
With less than an hour’s worth of data, NASA managed to predict that a two-meter (6.5 ft) asteroid would impact in the Earth’s atmosphere on March 11 at 5:23 pm EST, over the Norwegian Sea 300 miles (470 km) off the east coast of Greenland.Continue Rea… Continue reading NASA predicts time and place of small asteroid’s impact with Earth
Britain’s supercarrier HMS Prince of Wales has become the first surface ship to be equipped with a state-of-the-art atomic clock as it departs for the Exercise Cold Response 2022 NATO joint exercises off the north coast of Norway.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading HMS Prince of Wales becomes first surface ship to carry an atomic clock