Small, remote-controlled craft powered by the sun are taking to the air FLYING using only the power of the sun is an enticing prospect. But manned solar-powered aircraft are fragile and slow... Read more
There’s clearly a market for long-duration ocean going robots A mola, or ocean sunfish, is a very big, very flat, and (in this reporter’s opinion) rather silly looking tropical b... Read more
Where Matternet is going, it doesn’t need roads. But the people there need food and medicine. And these drones can bring it to them. Nearly one billion people in rural areas live without acc... Read more
2011 has turned out to be a groundbreaking year for electric vehicles—literally. The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) earlier this week chose a shopping center in... Read more
The Switchblade is the first of a new breed of miniature kamikaze drones U.S.Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan are beginning initial deployment of the Switchblade unmanned aerial system... Read more
“shape-changing maneuverable munition” Not long after placing its first order for suicide drones, the U.S. Army has set its sights upon a tiny hovering robot capable of sc... Read more
The UAS weighs about five pounds (2.27 kg), and is small enough to be carried in a backpack California-based aerospace company AeroVironment has developed some fascinating Unmanned Aircraft... Read more
THE future of air power is likely to be unmanned. It may also be surprisingly small. Reapers and Predators grab the headlines, but these big, high-profile drones are already outnumbered by s... Read more
AeroVironment, the California-based company behind the largest, highest and longest flying unmanned aircraft system (UAS), the Global Observer, has now achieved a remarkable technical milest... Read more
Following on from a successful maiden flight under battery power in 2010, AeroVironment’s high altitude, long endurance (HALE) Global Observer unmanned aircraft has now taken to the skies us... Read more
