Robotics
Remember when IBM's Deep Blue won against Gary Kasparov at chess in 1996, or Google's AlphaGo crushed the top champion Lee Sedol at Go, a much more complex game, in 2016? These competitions where machines prevailed over human ...
Aug 30, 2023
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Recent technological advances, such as increasingly sophisticated drones and cameras, have opened exciting new possibilities for cinematography. Most notably, film directors can now shoot scenes from a wide range of angles ...
Engineering
University of South Australia researchers have drawn inspiration from a 300-million-year-old superior flying machine—the dragonfly—to show why future flapping wing drones will probably resemble the insect in shape, wings ...
Apr 27, 2021
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Engineering
Innovative design choices can have a massive impact in the theater of war, so it is important to understand the principles behind their development. Recent use of low-cost cardboard drones by Ukraine, supplied by Australia, ...
Sep 1, 2023
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Robotics
The technology, which has been tested in the lab, could ultimately be used for manufacturing and building in difficult-to-access or dangerous locations such as tall buildings or help with post-disaster relief construction, ...
Sep 21, 2022
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Engineering
For the first time, Australian researchers have reverse engineered the visual systems of hoverflies to detect drones' acoustic signatures from almost four kilometers away.
Mar 15, 2022
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Farmland bird species are declining over most of Europe. Birds breeding on the ground are particularly vulnerable because they are exposed to mechanical operations, like plowing and sowing, which take place in spring and ...
Jul 14, 2020
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Business
Walgreens will begin flying packages by drone to residents in a pair of Texas cities in partnership with Google's drone-making affiliate, Wing.
Oct 20, 2021
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Robotics
Drones are operating increasingly in areas out of sight of the person controlling them. However, conventional remote controls have a limited range, which makes them unsuitable for these flights. On the other hand, simple ...
Feb 3, 2023
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Engineering
Drone deliveries are coming soon, at least for one Virginia community, as part of a pilot project announced Thursday by Wing, the unit spun out of a "moonshot" lab at Google parent Alphabet.
Sep 19, 2019
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