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Drones Spy on Hippos to Help Conservation Efforts

A new UNSW study has shown that using a drone to film hippos in Africa is an effective, affordable tool for conservationists to monitor the threatened species’ population from a safe distance, particularly in remote and aquatic areas.

11 Dec 2019

Effective Method to Use Underwater Robotic Glider to Measure Ocean Noise

Ocean noise has been gaining more and more global attention. Scientists from Oregon State University and NOAA have devised an effective technique to employ an underwater robotic glider to measure sound levels across wider areas of the ocean.

22 Nov 2019

New Technique Allows Direct Testing of UAV with Autopilot Software

An international team of researchers has contributed research efforts to make unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) smarter.

7 Nov 2019

New Platform Developed for Scalable Testing of Safety in Autonomous Vehicles

Manufacturers competing to build autonomous vehicles (AVs) have occasionally overlooked the safety feature, which has been indicated by a few headline-making accidents.

25 Oct 2019

Olis Robotics Selected by Maxar to Provide New Levels of Precision Control for Lunar Lander Robotic Arm

Olis Robotics, a leader in next-generation AI-driven software for remote robotics in dynamic environments in subsea, terrestrial, and space applications, today announced that it has been selected by Maxar Technologies, a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, to provide robotic operator planning software for Maxar’s Sample Acquisition, Morphology Filtering, and Probing of Lunar Regolith (SAMPLR) robotic arm.

24 Oct 2019

Swarm of Miniature Drones Successful in Exploring Unfamiliar Settings

Scientists have developed a swarm of miniature drones that can investigate unfamiliar environments totally by themselves. This study, published in the October 23rd issue of the Science Robotics, forms a major step in the domain of swarm robotics.

24 Oct 2019

Researchers Develop Autonomous Drone-Based Aerial Cinematography System

Commercial drone products are mainly designed to tackle certain automated tasks. They, however, do not include artistic filming. A team guided by Carnegie Mellon University scientists has suggested a comprehensive system for aerial cinematography that studies humans' visual preferences.

16 Oct 2019

Multimillion-Pound Robotics Hub Unveils Latest Research for the Inspection, Maintenance and Decommissioning of Offshore Energy Infrastructure

A consortium of five universities, working with 35 industrial and innovation partners, has unveiled the latest results from its multimillion-pound research collaboration.

16 Oct 2019

New Robotic Fish Mimics Speed and Movements of Live Specimen

Steering a collaboration with Harvard University biologists, mechanical engineers from the University of Virginia School of Engineering (UVA Engineering) have developed the world’s first robotic fish that imitates the movements and speed of live yellowfin tuna.

19 Sep 2019

New Drone-Based Monitoring System Shows Key Data on Amazon’s Ecosystems

Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), visualized an innovative drone-based chemical monitoring system in 2017.

12 Sep 2019