It’s the stuff of sci-fi nightmares. But also perhaps the concept behind China’s gigantic new drone mothership called Jiu Tian (“Ninth Heaven”), allegedly capable of releasing as many as 100 small, ...

A (NRL) research team successfully conducted the first reinforcement learning (RL) control of a free-flyer in space on May 27 ...

The little red robots appear to be little more than a pair of wheels, but in between these are tiny computers that provide their smarts. During the recent test, the robots could be seen navigating ...

Think twice about eliminating those pesky ants at your next family picnic. Their behavior may hold the key to reinventing how ...

The interest surrounding these platforms appears to be catching on, as several companies paraded their new variants at the ...

Collaborative drone swarms that bring together kamikaze drones and wheeled robot grenade launchers could be coming to a ...

NJIT's Matthew Loges ’25 and Assistant Professor Tomer Weiss explored how the collective behavior of ants — acting like both fluids and elastic materials — can inspire breakthroughs in engineering ...

From the outside, wildfire smoke may look like a drifting gray cloud. But for scientists, these plumes are dynamic, complex, ...

Inspired by nature, researchers have developed a new framework using a geometric property called "curvity" to improve robot swarm coordination. This parameter, indicating how a robot curves under ...

As night fell, swarms of drones roared through a circular racetrack, while inside an exhibition hall humanoid robots ...

They discovered a property they call “curvity”—a natural tendency of particles to bend or curve as they move. Much like ...