The advent of self-driving cars is predicted to bring benefits such as more energy-efficient mobility, traffic reduction and reduced collisions, and all the necessary technology to do so has probably been invented by now...

Hybrid vehicles that can operate in more than one medium are always tricky to develop. The demands of flight, to minimise weight for example, conflict with the requirements of a vehicle that can operate on the ground and successfully negotiate different types of terrain...

Rory Jackson traces the development of these electric multirotor UAVs that feature gasoline two-strokes for range extension...

Researchers in Germany have developed a process for the automated manufacture and assembly of cable harnesses. The process, developed at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences...

Intel has won a project to develop simulation technology for uncrewed off-road vehicle development. The Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency – Simulation (RACER-Sim) project has two phases over 48 months...

Vector has developed the first Ethernet switch for driverless car designs that uses the safety-critical AutoSar standard software. The veSwitch software runs on the Brightlane switches from Marvell, and follows the AutoSar methodology with respect to model definition...

GS Yuasa Lithium Power (GYLP) is developing a small but scalable battery for space systems. The small form factor lithium-ion battery has completed the Preliminary Design Review and is now moving to the critical design phase....

Conical revolution pumps are providing new ways to propel fluids around uncrewed systems. The pumps, called the R-series and developed by TCS Micropumps in the UK, work on the peristalsis principle to pump both liquids and gases...

Researchers in the US have developed a way to predict the behaviour of pedestrians and cyclists around a driverless car. The algorithm, developed at MIT, breaks down the problem of predicting the action of multiple users, each represented as an individual...

A capacitive fuel level sensor from Reventec is being used to provide realtime level data from a Martin UAV V-BAT tactical UAS. Reventec’s LS200 has a solid-state capacitive sensor with no moving parts and measures the full depth of the fuel tank to an accuracy of ±0.5% to provide critical fuel level data to operators...