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Improved traffic flow with vehicle platooning

Researchers in China have used the rear lights of vehicles to communicate in a platoon. Vehicle platooning allows vehicles to travel in tightly coordinated groups to minimise aerodynamic drag, conserve fuel, alleviate road congestion...

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Miniaturised solid-state batteries

A chip that integrates reconfigurable solid-state batteries could enable nanoUAVs and microrobots to be powered for longer periods of time while staying lightweight and compact. Researchers from the University of California San Diego and...

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Causing a flap in aircraft propulsion

A solid-state ornithopter with no moving parts has been developed by researchers in the US. The ornithopter uses induced-strain actuators based on composite piezoelectric materials to eliminate the need for electromagnetic...

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Low-cost wind-powered robot

In the UK, researchers have developed a robot for hostile environments that is powered by wind energy. WANDER-bot is a low-cost, 3D-printed robot that is designed for deployment in hostile, windy environments such...

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Military sphere autonomous cargo ship

BlackSea Technologies is building an autonomous cargo ship for the US military. Construction of the NightTrain autonomous surface vessel has started with the keel-laying. The vessel is designed to transport containerised cargo...

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Bonded fasteners enhance aerostructure integrity

Click Bond is supplying a range of adhesive-bonded fasteners and fixtures to uncrewed and eVTOL customers, which yield a wide variety of advantages over traditional methods for panel attachment and harness routing in aerostructures...

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First personal robocar

Tensor Auto in the US has developed the first driverless car for personal use with over 400 distributed ARM cores and eight NVIDIA GPUs for the self-driving systems. The ‘Robocar’ has a vertically integrated Level 4 autonomy stack, and a comprehensive...

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3D printing a motor

Researchers in the US are working on a platform that can produce a complete rotary motor in one pass with 3D printing. The team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has already developed a multi-material 3D-printing platform...

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Wireless power for UAV surveillance

UAV maker Arion is to use a wireless power system from GuRu Wireless to provide endurance for surveillance applications. This will enable the UAV from Arion in South Korea, previously known as rgblab, to stay airborne for over 96 hours...

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Using 5G for UAV detection

Ericsson has demonstrated the use of 5G technology to detect UAVs in flight. The live proof of concept integrates sensing and spatial location of passive objects into existing 5G mobile networks using 5G signals to sense the surroundings...