Researchers make incredible breakthrough after building robotic flying bugs: 'Real lightweight and small'

Israeli and German scientists announced the development of a method to capture nearly all the light emitted by microscopic ...

Your food flying in? Uber Eats plans drone deliveries before year’s end

Uber Eats says it is to begin trialling drone delivery in certain U.S. markets “by the end of the year”.
The National Interest

DARPA Is in the Middle of a Microscopic Robotic Arms Race

One animal-inspired micro robot is the RoboBee, a device weighing less than a tenth of a gram, developed at Harvard’s Wyss ...

Predictions from the 1970s that still haven’t happened (but maybe should)

The 1970s represented an era of unprecedented technological optimism when experts confidently predicted that Americans ...
FLYING Magazine

NASA Calls On Students to Fix Aviation Maintenance

NASA, alongside private sector partners such as Boeing and RTX, is also backing a three-year competition called GoAERO that calls on students and other participants to design and build self-flying ...
Tech Xplore

Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight

In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly engineered mechanism made to drive bat-style morphing wings capable of flight.
The American Spectator

The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be (And Thank Goodness)

As kids of the 1980s, surrounded by a boom in science magazines with utterly ridiculous headlines, we were told that by 2025 there would be flying cars straight out of Back to the Future, humanoid ...
Interesting Engineering

Falcon-inspired robot mimics natural bird takeoff with reconfigurable wing system

Chinese scientists unveil RoboFalcon2.0, a bird-inspired flapping robot that takes off like a falcon using new wing mechanics ...

For birds, flocks promise safety, especially if you're faster than your neighbor

As I walked along Bolivar Flats, just across from Galveston Island in Texas, I watched flocks of sanderlings forage along the ...

Where we're going, we don't need roads – Xpeng sees a future in AI robots and flying cars

While we have seen previous versions that drive and fly, this new model is only designed to fly. It can be stored in your ...
China Daily Global Edition

Chinese engineers design innovative robot that takes off like a bird

XI'AN -- In a breakthrough for bio-inspired robotics, a team of Chinese engineers has designed a robot that flaps its wings ...

Jetsons Predictions That Have Come True Vs Those That Are Unlikely To Happen

From smart homes to wearable technology, the show predicted a world where convenience and connectivity define daily life.