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Safety testing of Amazon UAVs

Amazon has received approval to begin UAV deliveries to customers following a key safety programme. The MK30 UAV has been specifically designed for airborne Beyond Visual Line of Sight deliveries using an on-board detect and avoid system...

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UAV triggers mines

A heavy-duty UAV is incorporating a system to boost its ability to find and trigger mines after a conflict. The Draganfly Heavy Lift UAV will use the Mine and Ground Inert Clearance (MAGIC) mesh-based demining system developed by Autonome Labs...

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Morphing robot covers more ground

A robot can cover diverse environments as adeptly as animals by changing form on the fly. The GOAT (Good Over All Terrains) developed at the CREATE lab at EPFL in Switzerland can spontaneously morph between a flat ‘rover’ shape and a sphere...

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Driving dataset combines weather and road conditions

Vaisala Xweather and NIRA Dynamics have developed a dataset that combines weather forecasting and computer vision with real-time data. The integration draws on data from NIRA Dynamics from billions of data points gathered from connected vehicles...

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Surfing underwater currents to reduce power

Underwater vehicles have to manage a complex environment of currents, fighting against many flows as they attempt to stay on course. Peter Gunnarson and John Dabiri at the California Institute of Technology have designed an underwater robot...

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Data transmission test on a high

Tests in Japan have shown successful data connection with an autonomous high altitude platform station (HAPS) flying at an altitude of 20km for the first time. The trial with Space Compass and NTT DOCOMO connected a 4G LTE base station on the ground with the HAPS...

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Hybrid vessel for Arctic Ice

Researchers in Florida have developed a hybrid system that combines uncrewed underwater, sea and air vehicles to monitor ice in the Arctic. Direct observation of the ice is challenging as satellite sensors have a coarse spatial resolution and cannot detect the fine fractal...

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AI control for ballbots

Researchers in Asia have developed a new technique with machine learning for controlling ballbots. Ballbots are versatile robotic systems with the ability to move around in all directions. This makes it tricky to control their movement...

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Dual axle steering for autonomous tractor

A team from the University of Córdoba in Spain is developing an autonomous tractor with three different steering modes, allowing it to drive in straight lines, make turns efficiently, and shift modes in response to its trajectories. The Sergius robot tractor...

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Millimetre wave radar for UAV localisation

A new low power sensing technique allows a UAV to determine its position, in indoor, dark, and low-visibility environments for autonomous navigation. The MiFLy system developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) uses millimetre wave radio...