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A recent NATO exercise in the waters off the coast of Portugal saw naval drones reach a new level. As part of the exercise, a BAE Systems/Malloy Aeronautics T-600 heavy lift Uncrewed Air System (UAS) air launched an inert Sting Ray training torpedo.Con… Continue reading In a world-first, T-600 heavy lift drone launches anti-sub torpedo
DARPA and General Atomics are readying their fighter-launched LongShot missile-firing drone for flight testing. The aircraft is part of an effort to haul 4th-generation fighter planes into the 21st-century aerial battlefield.Continue ReadingCategory: M… Continue reading DARPA’s LongShot missile-firing drone is ready for flight testing
While it’s important to track and quantify airborne pollutants, most gas sensors are located at ground level, not up where the pollutants spread. A new lab-on-a-drone system is designed to address that limitation, by taking the tech to the sky.Continue… Continue reading Drone-mounted tech delivers real-time air pollution reports
At this week’s DSEI Defence exhibition in London, SpearUAV unveiled its Multi Canister Launcher (MCL) Viper system, which is bolted onto the outside of conventional and robotic military vehicles to launch Viper drones without exposing soldiers to harm…. Continue reading MCL Viper system gives military vehicles multi-drone launch capacity
Planning to host a large backyard wingding in the NYC metro area this weekend? Be sure to watch the skies for uninvited guests. That’s right, the NYPD are deploying drones …read more Continue reading Labor Day BBQs May Feature NYPD
The US Deputy Secretary of Defense has officially kicked off the AI drone wars, announcing a radical “Replicator” plan to put many thousands of intelligent autonomous war drones into service within 18-24 months, to deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.Co… Continue reading US military plans to thwart China with 1,000s of autonomous war drones
The US Air Force’s XQ-58A Valkyrie experimental combat drone has made its first flight under the control of artificial intelligence. On July 25, 2023, the robotic aircraft completed a three-hour sortie at the Eglin Test and Training Complex in Florida…. Continue reading AI pilots US Air Force Valkyrie combat drone for the first time
Arizona’s Revolute Robotics has presented its autonomous Hybrid Mobility Robot (HMR), a whirling, spherical cage that can fly like a multicopter, or roll in any direction using two gyroscopic gimbal rings. It’s one heck of a thing to see in motion.Cont… Continue reading Autonomous, omnidirectional hamster ball robot can fly over obstacles
As much as a robot might excel at a certain mode of transport, as soon as conditions change it can become hopeless. Now engineers at Caltech have designed a new robot that can roll around on four wheels, flip them into rotors to fly, or transform for s… Continue reading Transforming robot drives, flies, crawls, stands, tiptoes and tumbles
In a world first, the United States, Britain, and Australia have carried out an exercise at Salisbury Plain, England under the AUKUS agreement to field test drones equipped with jointly developed autonomy and artificial intelligence systems capable of … Continue reading US, UK, and Australia test AI drones in world-first exercise