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A palm-sized drone can follow walls in complete darkness using artificial whiskers for obstacle sensing, while its tactile-navigation software uses just 34 kilobytes of RAM — less data than many low-resolution photos.
3+ hour, 46+ min ago (1382+ words) A 44.1-gram drone uses pressure-sensing artificial whiskers for wall following and tactile mapping, with its onboard autonomy occupying about 34 KB of additional RAM. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 20, 2026 · How we edit A 44.1-gram quadcopter has learned…...
Autonomous strike drone uses Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano to independently pick and bomb targets — Swedish startup's attack drones run small AI model, require no human input and zero external comms
13+ hour, 56+ min ago (478+ words) Drones built with small, non-frontier computer-vision models autonomously identified and attacked targets in a recent demo. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Drones built with small, non-frontier computer-vision models…...
Video Shows Huge Drone Descending on Unsuspecting Dog and Blasting It With Water
5+ hour, 15+ min ago (309+ words) Published Sep 20, 2026 9:01 AM EDT Is this video of a huge drone hovering over a dog and blasting it with water adorable in its canine innocence? Is it dystopian in its implications? You’ll just have to decide for yourself. The viral…...
This Tiny Flying Robot Uses Just One Motor to Navigate the Air
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Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9342: Receptive-Field-Aware Adaptive Fusion for Multiscale Insulator Defect Detection in Transmission-Line Images
7+ hour, 41+ min ago (418+ words) Transmission-line inspection requires a single detector to localize complete insulator strings together with much smaller broken-shell and flashover-damaged regions. These targets differ in spatial extent and in their dependence on local detail and surrounding context, which complicates cross-scale feature fusion…...
Applied Sciences, Vol. 16, Pages 9337: Deep Learning for Surface-Conditioned Structural Crack Recognition: Integrating CNN-Attention Models and Calibrated Confidence Estimation
8+ hour, 1+ min ago (410+ words) Surface recognition can organize structural inspection imagery, but high classification accuracy does not establish crack detection or structural diagnosis. This study evaluates the supplied 49,124-image StructDamage collection, containing nine surface categories and 4586 masonry-focused images. A shared ResNet-18 encoder supports ten…...
China's autonomous 'bionic robot' fish looks just like the real one, perfect for covert military operations — Robocean BG5 could also be used to track poachers
18+ hour, 11+ min ago (521+ words) China's viral robot "spy fish" is lifelike and steers itself around a tank A golden fish doing laps in a small tank at Beijing's Shougang Park has become one of the most shared clips from this month's China International Fair…...
The Cockroach Drone: Israel and the rise of insect warfare
19+ hour, 57+ min ago (333+ words) The next revolution in warfare may not arrive in the form of a fighter aircraft, missile or conventional drone. It could emerge from machines so small that they resemble insects. Israel’s growing interest in bio-inspired robotics, micro-drones, autonomous systems and…...
Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray underwater drone for DARPA fits into five shipping containers, glides by pumping seawater, and can anchor to the ocean floor to “hibernate” and save energy
23+ hour, 21+ min ago (735+ words) Home - Technology - Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray underwater drone for DARPA fits into five shipping containers, glides by pumping seawater, and can anchor to the ocean floor to “hibernate” and save energy What if an underwater drone could extend its missions…...