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Nanodrone for Detecting Hazardous Gases in Emergencies

Scientists Santiago Marco and Javier Burgués from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have designed and built the Smelling Nano Aerial Vehicle (SNAV), a nanodrone that is capable of detecting hazardous gases in collapsed buildings due to explosions or earthquakes and locating victims in places that are not easy to access.

24 Jul 2019

Quanergy and Chery to Launch an Era of Autonomous Vehicles and Smart Cities

Quanergy Systems, Inc., a top provider of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensors and smart sensing solutions, reported a collaboration with Chery Automobile, one of the leading automotive manufacturers in China.

19 Jul 2019

New Drone with Two Propellers can Fly Twice as Long as Conventional Models

Flybotix, an EPFL startup, has created a new drone with just two propellers and a sophisticated stabilization system that enable it to fly two times longer than traditional models.

18 Jul 2019

New Method to Automatically Design AI-Powered Controller for Hybrid Drones

Hybrid unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are drones possessing the advantages of both multi-copters and fixed-wing planes.

18 Jul 2019

Drone Technology Can Help Understand the Effect of Climate Change on Rivers

An academic at Loughborough University is creating drone technology to determine the size of tiny, underwater sediments in an effort to understand how rivers are reacting to environmental drivers, including climate change.

16 Jul 2019

New Test Bench to Assess Impact of Collisions Between Drones and Aircraft

The sudden increase in the number of drones across the world has been accompanied by growing reports of close misses with commercial aircraft. In fact, in 2017, a Canadian passenger aircraft collided with a drone during landing, barely escaping catastrophic consequences. For aircraft, bird-strike tests are compulsory.

2 Jul 2019

Olis Robotics and Olympus Collaborate to Explore Developing Assisted Autonomy Applications

Olis Robotics, a leader in next-generation mobile remote robotics software, today announced a new memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Olympus Controls, a leader in engineering innovation and automated robotic solutions for industry.

2 Jul 2019

Miniature RoboBee Flies Untethered for the First Time

On a late afternoon in August, several years of research in the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, climaxed in a moment of stress as the tiny, revolutionary RoboBee began its first solo flight.

27 Jun 2019

Collaborative Study on User Acceptance of Robocabs

Looks like autonomous driving could become a reality in the near future despite the fact that the technology has only just been tested in prototypes on test routes.

26 Jun 2019

Researchers Develop a Better Way to Train Autonomous Systems

A car is instructed to improve its speed while it races down a track in a computer game, pushing the pedal to the metal. It then continues to rotate in a tight little circle. However, there was nothing in the instructions that informed the car to drive straight, and hence it improvised.

25 Jun 2019