Emerging Tech
These Could Be the Medical Droids NIH is Looking For
The National Institutes of Health want to know if companies can supply autonomous delivery bots to safely and securely deliver medications.
Emerging Tech
The Pentagon Wants to Bring Mind-Controlled Tech To Troops
The Defense Department’s research arm is working on a project that connects human operators’ brains to the systems they’re controlling—and vice versa.
Cybersecurity
Hacker Caught Selling Maintenance Manuals for Military Drones
A poorly configured router allowed the theft of drone manuals, a list of maintainers, material on the Abrams tank, and more.
Emerging Tech
Scientists Built a Transforming Flying Robot Dragon
The aircraft actually solves a bunch of problems facing modern drones.
Emerging Tech
Someone Flew a Drone Too Close to a Wildfire, Again
Firefighters in Colorado had to ground their aircraft for an hour.
Emerging Tech
Drone Cops Take Flight in Los Angeles
The L.A. County Sheriff has deployed a quadcopter drone for rescue and reconnaissance. But will the public accept that these aerial officers come in peace?
Emerging Tech
This Is the Week That the Drone Surveillance State Became Real
Local police have access to drones and footage from those flying cameras will be automatically analyzed by AI systems not disclosed to the public.
Artificial Intelligence
Google Had 85,000 Reasons to Change its Mind About Its Pentagon Contract
Employee backlash can be very powerful.
Emerging Tech
The U.S. Navy Is Developing Mothership Drones for Coastal Defense
The service is looking to accelerate the way it buys, builds and drills drones and robotic ships.
Emerging Tech
Interior is Using Drones to Save People Trapped by Hot Lava
They’ve also been faster and safer than putting boots on the ground, a department official said.
Ideas
DARPA Wants You to Brainstorm New Warfighting Ideas
The agency wants to find the next great warfighting idea, no matter how crazy or nontraditional it might seem.
Ideas
NASA Soups Up Mars 2020 Robot with Hi-Def Ears and Its Own Drone
The drone's helicopter rotors must spin 10 times faster than on Earth.
Emerging Tech
DHS Contract Will Help Drones Automatically Spot Border Threats
The end result would be smarter small reconnaissance systems.
Emerging Tech
10 Drone Programs Get Federal OK To Break The Rules
The public-private partnerships will test the use of drones in heretofore forbidden conditions, under the oversight of the Transportation Department and FAA.
Cybersecurity
A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm To Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid
And that’s just one of the ways bad guys are putting drones to use, law enforcement officials say.
Emerging Tech
Pentagon Innovation Group Aims to Protect Military Bases From Rogue Drones
DIUx awarded Dedrone a contract to test the group’s drone detection technology at military bases across the country.
Emerging Tech
Drone Technology Is Now Dangerous Enough to Kill For
Advances in consumer electronics are making drones available to armed forces without the resources to hire billion-dollar defense contractors.
Emerging Tech
Uber Will Bring You Flying Taxis, if You Can Help Build a Magical Battery
The company needs to develop a battery that is lighter and has more storage capacity than anything produced so far.
Emerging Tech
Army Switches To Special Fast-Track Contract For Drone-Mounted Signal Jammer
The contract will now be limited to members of an industry consortium for cyber and electronic warfare companies.
Emerging Tech