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IBM and a non-profit company, ProMare, failed to send their 49-foot Mayflower autonomous ship across the Atlantic back in June. Now they are almost ready to try again. The Mayflower …read more Continue reading IBM Attempts an Uncrewed Atlantic Crossing (Again)
Researchers at Northwestern University is moving the goalposts on how small you can make a tiny flying object down to 0.5 mm, effectively creating flying microchips. Although “falling with style” …read more Continue reading Tiny Winged Circuits Fall With Style
Most of us have printed a few benchies to test our 3D printers. The intrepid little boat has a variety of features that tax different parts of the printing process. …read more Continue reading When Benchies Fly
We appear to have a new entry atop the “Robots That Creep Us Out” leader board: meet LEONARDO, the combination quadcopter/bipedal robot. LEONARDO, a somewhat tortured name derived from “LEgs …read more Continue reading LEONARDO: The Hopping, Flying Bipedal Robot
It is unlikely that as a young lad [Richard Jenkins] would had have visions of sailing into the eye of a Category-4 hurricane. Yet that’s exactly what he’s done with …read more Continue reading How Does A Sail Drone Bring Home Hurricane Footage In Record Time?
For a long time fixed wing VTOL drones were tricky to work with, but with the availability of open source flight control and autopilot software this has changed. To make …read more Continue reading 3D Printed VTOL Craft Can Land And Recharge Itself, And Team Up With Other Drones
For a long time radial aircraft engines, with their distinctive cylinder housings arranged in a circle, were a common sight on aircraft. As an experiment, [KendinYap], wanted to see if …read more Continue reading Electric “Radial” RC Aircraft Motor
[rctestflight] has built several autonomous boats, and with missions becoming longer and more challenging, he bought an inflatable kayak to serve as a dedicated rescue vessel. Instead of relying on …read more Continue reading Solar Powered Autonomous Tugboat For Rescuing Autonomous Vessels
One of the major perks of all the affordable flight controllers and motors available from the hobby market is that you can really experiment with some crazy aircraft designs. [amazingdiyprojects] …read more Continue reading Coaxcopter to Carry Man
Over the years we’ve brought you many stories that follow the world of aviation as it struggles with the arrival of multirotors. We’ve seen phantom drone encounters cause panics and …read more Continue reading Drone Hits Plane — And This Time It’s A Real (Police) One!