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Hypersonic flight

An uncomfortable realisation in the West that it is trailing both Russia and China in the technologies...

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AI uncrewed system comms

It’s usually a mistake to make absolute statements about the complexity of the real world...

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Security of UAV data links

Recent conflicts have highlighted the vulnerability of UAV data links to a variety of attacks on them...

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Quantum Navigation

These days, inertial sensing is the basis of all navigation systems that don’t rely on an external signal...

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Modular vehicles

Modularity has been a buzzword in the marketing of complex engineered products for decades...

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The human body as a UAV platform

As UAVs become part of everyday life, how we interact with them is growing in importance, and physical interaction is a key aspect of that. Landing on people automatically could be important for police officers and others who might need a UAV’s eye view of their surroundings several times during a mission but are too busy with their primary tasks to manage UAV landings. It might also include people who need rescue or urgent medical attention...

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Internet of quantum UAVs?

While the spooky science of quantum mechanics underpins modern microelectronics, there’s a great deal of excitement and no doubt hype about the far less familiar field of quantum computing and its impact on comms, cryptography, sensing and other areas in which uncrewed systems are closely involved...

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Seabed ‘harvesting’ robots

Mining is generally considered a particularly damaging activity for the environment, and the prospect of mining the seabed for industrially important metals is a controversial one (writes Peter Donaldson). It is also a major focus for developments in robotic technologies...

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Seabed 2030 project

It’s often said that we know more about the surface of the Moon than about the ocean floor. What this means is that about four-fifths of the seabed remains unmapped. To be more precise, the 2021 release of the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans...