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Flying beetle cyborgs guided with tiny battery-powered backpacks

3 May 2018

Beetles have been turned into autonomous flying robots. They could one day swarm through disaster zones on search and rescue missions

UK smart missile will decide where to look for its next target

27 April 2018

Giving the Brimstone weapon system greater autonomy could reduce the number of civilian casualties but critics worry about lack of human control

The US army has made a virtual North Korea to train its soldiers

20 April 2018

The US army has built a system that can quickly create virtual locations for soldiers to train in. It took only three days to make North and South Korea

Watch a swarm of underwater drones hunt and surround a boat

16 April 2018

Dozens of underwater SwarmDiver drones can autonomously explore an area or encircle an object. To launch them they are just thrown into the sea

Another take on the idea of a colour bar

11 April 2018

Palm trees have been spotted changing sex for the first time

5 April 2018

Four Quindío wax palms in Colombia have changed sex from male to female, which was thought to be impossible for such plants

Biology's moonshot: The mission to decode the DNA of all life

4 April 2018

A new plan to sequence all Earth's animals and plants could lead to medical and material advances that dwarf even what the Human Genome Project has achieved

US wants first drones that can kill people truly independently

23 March 2018

Small drones that can automatically spot, identify and target vehicles and people are planned by the US military, although humans would still be overseeing them

AI drones are controlling self-driving diggers on building sites

14 March 2018

At thousands of sites around Japan, drones are learning to direct autonomous trucks from above – heralding a revolution in the construction industry

Swarms of cheap drones are attacking missile defences in Yemen

8 March 2018

Home-made drones are attacking the world’s most sophisticated defence systems. It’s not clear if the attacks have worked yet, but it’s a trend likely to continue