Researchers at MIT have devised a system for training autonomous driving systems how to drive. VISTA – Virtual Image Synthesis and Transformation for Autonomy – creates a photorealistic world with multiple steering possibilities, helping the Read More
A team of researchers based at Aalto University (Finland), UCLouvain (Belgium), and New York University (USA) is gathering extensive radar measurement data with the goal of improving the detection and identification of unmanned aerial vehicles Read More
The US Department of Navy and the US Marines Corps have developed a resilience policy that will enable key installations to go off-grid for at least two weeks – with the goal of “assured energy Read More
Israeli defense contractor Elbit recently announced that its American subsidiary, Elbit Systems of America, has received a firm-fixed-price contract with a ceiling of approximately $471 million over a 10-year period to equip F-16 aircraft of Read More
Delivery drones are now capable of delivering supplies to marines in combat, allowing emergency food and ammunition deliveries in a short amount of time. The autonomous drones can carry 60 pounds (~ 27 kilos) of Read More
Exyn Technologies – a spinoff of the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing, and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory – has introduced a new mission behavior for military surveillance and reconnaissance missions called Scoutonomy. Built on Read More
The European Defense Agency (EDA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) are partnering on two new projects that will explore unknown or potentially hazardous environments: using drones to monitor disaster-stricken regions or toxic spill sites; Read More
Researchers from Binghamton University and Ukraine have developed a new technique using hybrid drones and shrunken technology to identify unexploded ordinances (UXO) from the air. “There’s this kind of evolutionary moment when the two technologies Read More
Researchers at Tomsk State University’s Supercomputer Center in Russia have developed a method for the automated design of drones based on mathematical modeling using the computing power of the SKIF Cyberia supercomputer. The new approach Read More
Researchers at the University of Central Florida have received a $500,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to develop a portable detection system that could help firefighters and others accurately detect blazes and Read More
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