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Global Underwater Robotics Market Expected to Grow at a CAGR of 15.1% During 2018-2025

As per the report published by Fior Markets, the global underwater robotics market is expected to grow from USD 2.30 Billion in 2017 to USD 7.08 Billion by 2025 at a CAGR of 15.1% during the forecast period 2018-2025.

28 Feb 2020

U.S. Army Convoys Could be Made Safer by Autonomous Vehicle Technology

New research performed at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization, shows that it is possible to make U.S. Army convoys safer for soldiers by applying autonomous vehicle technology to minimize the number of service members required to run the vehicles.

13 Feb 2020

SkyDrive Launches Test Flights of First-ever Cargo Drone that will Boost Productivity in Hard-to-Reach Places

SkyDrive Inc., a leading flying-car developer, has successfully launched test flights of a cargo drone which could revolutionize the way heavy goods are transported and speed up the movement of equipment in remote locations.

From SkyDrive Inc. 20 Dec 2019

IDTechEx Asks: How Close Are We to Autonomous Cars?

In the past decade, progress continues in the development and deployment of autonomous driving technologies, as we see market leaders like Google’s Waymo have achieved the milestones in on-road testing of their self-driving fleets, and companies like Tesla announced ambitious plans to commercialise robotaxi services in geo-fenced areas by 2020.

17 Dec 2019

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