The U.S. Military relies on the space-based Global Positioning System (GPS) to aid air, land and sea navigation. Like the GPS units in many automobiles today, a simple receiver and some proc... Read more
If current technology trends are any indication, it’s possible that human lifeguards could be replaced by robots in the future. So far, we’ve seen a remote-controlled rescue buoy... Read more
Weather and GPS information stimulated the economy with new products and services. Todd Park, the U.S. chief technology officer, wants to repeat that success with the rest of the government’... Read more
Earlier this year, RTS Lab unveiled its concept for Pars, an aerial robot that flies out over a large body of water to air-drop life preservers near drowning victims. Like many design concep... Read more
They estimate that the cost of the system can be brought down from its current £5,000 to only £100 (US$155). Oxford University’s Mobile Robotics Group (MRG) has developed an autonomous navig... Read more
“We have managed to improve the determination of a vehicle’s position in critical cases by between 50 and 90 percent” Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have develo... Read more
British soldiers in Afghanistan have become the first to use miniature surveillance helicopters in frontline operations. The drones can fly around corners and obstacles to identify potential... Read more
Space: the beneficial frontier. That was the underlying theme of a panel called “The Future of Space,” which I moderated at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting at Davos, Switzerland. I... Read more
The results show that localisation technology helps achieve an increased sense of security, freedom and quality of life, both for sufferers and their next of kin. As part of the norwegian re... Read more
This flu season you’ve probably seen a number of friends on social media talking about symptoms. New research from Brigham Young University says such posts on Twitter could actually be helpf... Read more
You are going to meet your friends after shopping but just can’t find them in the labyrinth of stores in a shopping mall – This may be a thing of the past as our cell phones are... Read more
DARPA-funded effort demonstrates preciseautonomous payload placement with UAV. When a person reaches out to place an object in just the right place, their mind makes a series of judgments re... Read more
An Afghan designer has come up with a novel tumbleweed-esque device to find and detonate mines, a device that has evolved from the wind-powered toys he made as a child. Massoud Hassani... Read more
Cornell researchers have created an autonomous flying robot that is as smart as a bird when it comes to maneuvering around obstacles. Able to guide itself through forests, tunnels or damaged... Read more
It also means that it wouldn’t be too hard for [a very skilled person] to work out how to un-encrypt military drones and spoof them American researchers took control of a flying drone... Read more
