Robot inspector helps check bridges for dangerous defects
5 May 2017
Performing safety checks on bridges is slow and expensive work. A new autonomous robot can do the job quickly and cheaply
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Found 783 results for drones
The Easter egg puzzles that are hiding inside video games
1 May 2017
Online communities are spending years picking over new releases, chasing up obscure references and cracking codes in the quest to find hidden messages
Eyes on the skies: ensuring drones enhance city life
26 April 2017
We need a wider public conversation about the drones that will soon be widespread in urban areas, says innovation charity Nesta
UK does more to protect marine areas overseas than at home
24 April 2017
The government is failing to designate marine protected areas off its coast as promised, says a parliamentary report
Drones listen in on bats to reveal their in-flight secrets
21 April 2017
Using ultrasonic detectors, drones in the air and on the water are detecting bat calls, in the hope of finding out what the mammals get up to when flying
Drone maps mines to explore unsafe caverns and seek out minerals
11 April 2017
Australian government researchers are equipping drones with cameras and sonar so they can explore parts of old mines that are unsafe for people to visit
War by any means: The story of DARPA
22 March 2017
With the nature of war changing fast, what goes on in the Pentagon’s most secretive research agency, asks the first insider to lift the lid in The Imagineers of War
Can data save rhinos? How to attack wildlife crime at source
22 March 2017
By the time surveillance technology catches a poacher, it's already too late. Now researchers are training a new generation of technology on the demand for endangered animals, not the supply
Tomorrow's menu: Termites, grass and synthetic milk
22 March 2017
The population is set to rise by 2.5 billion in three decades. We have plenty of ingenious ideas about how to keep us all fed, but will they be too tough to swallow?
Morphing drone takes off like a helicopter, flies like a plane
24 February 2017
A drone for surveying farmers’ fields takes off vertically and then shape-shifts into a plane, making it easier to launch and allowing it to fly for longer
