May 27 2010
Are Terminators Real?
You won't see mechanized humanoid soldiers on the battlefield soon, but robotic air and land units are here and some are packing heat.
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May 17 2010
First Unmanned Aircraft in a Supercell Thunderstorm
Tornado Alley may have just gotten a little safer, thanks to researchers at a couple of Midwestern universities. For the first time, tornado chasers were able to fly an unmanned aircraft (or UA, for short) into the most severe type ...
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May 11 2010
Aircraft Lands on Side of Wall, Vertically
If the walls could talk, they'd say, "I think an airplane just landed on me." This unmanned vehicle from a research team at Stanford University flies straight toward a wall and then at the last second raises its nose up ...
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Apr 29 2010
Aircraft Lands on Side of Wall, Vertically
If the walls could talk, they'd say, "I think an airplane just landed on me." This unmanned vehicle from a research team at the University flies straight toward a wall and then at the last second raises its nose up ...
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Apr 15 2010
Unmanned Plane to Chase Tornadoes
You would think that with all of the gizmos, gadgets and devices tornado chasers have at their disposal, they would know everything there is to know about tornado formation. But not true. So for the first time they're adding one ...
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Apr 12 2010
Robocopter Test Flight Leads to Cocaine Bust
Our tech writer Eric Bland pointed me to this story today in The Register: a Navy-operated pilotless helicopter, called Fire Scout, was engaged in a routine test flight when its mothership, the USS McInerney, detected a speedboat on its radar. ...
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Apr 07 2010
Technology Frees You Up to Be Distracted by Technology
The other day, I was driving down the freeway and I noticed that more and more billboards are going digital. They're like giant LCD televisions in the sky, promoting this or that with video, animated graphics and even switching from ...
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Mar 18 2010
Five Explorer Robots We Really, Really Miss
A few days ago, I was saddened by the news that we had lost ABE, the Autonomous Benthic Explorer, off the coast of Chile. For 15 years, ABE had plumbed the depths, literally and figuratively, for the Woods Hole Oceanographic ...
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Mar 12 2010
Designing an Unmanned Chopper for Nuclear Disasters
This is Yamaha's RMAX unmanned aerial vehicle, which according to the company's website is "to be used in agriculture for the purpose of crop dusting, and also to serve...for observation/monitoring." Now, the Virginia Tech Autonomous Aerial Robotic Team is modding ...
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