05/05/2023

Robotics

New inspection drone uses wind to lengthen flight times

Elythor, an EPFL spin-off, has developed a new drone whose wing shape can adapt to wind conditions and flight position in real time, reducing the drone's energy consumption. What's more, the position of the wings can change, ...

Automotive

Listen both ways: Blind walkers winning safer road crossings

After a retinal disease left him legally blind, architect John Gleichman was struck by a taxicab while walking home near Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo—at the same intersection where a 4-year-old girl was killed by a hit-and-run ...

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