TechJect is looking to raise $110,000 via indigogo by the time the calendar ticks over to 2013. Given their impressive flight capabilities, it’s not surprising to see researchers turning to the world of flying insects [...]

Cornell researchers have created an autonomous flying robot that is as smart as a bird when it comes to maneuvering around obstacles. Able to guide itself through forests, tunnels or damaged buildings, the machine could [...]

The team will build models of the systems in the brain that govern a honey bee’s vision and sense of smell. Scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex are embarking on an ambitious project [...]

After unmanned drones, pilotless helicopters are taking to the sky to deliver supplies to troops UNMANNED attack aircraft, such as Predator and Reaper, have become a familiar part of modern warfare. But an army, famously, [...]

Check it out in the video by clicking “Read more . . . ” Many see small quadrocopters as the future of surveillance, aerial photography, warfare and even construction, but a new demonstration involving a world [...]

“This is a very challenging design problem” Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as those used by the military for surveillance and reconnaissance, could be getting a hand –and an arm– from engineers at Drexel University [...]

Where Matternet is going, it doesn’t need roads. But the people there need food and medicine. And these drones can bring it to them. Nearly one billion people in rural areas live without access to [...]

“The SUAVe system should be a way to create a digital archival registry of archaeological sites before it’s too late,” Archaeological sites that currently take years to map will be completed in minutes if tests [...]

A goal is to move to flight in a real forest by the program’s end The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is looking at birds’ perceptual and maneuvering abilities as inspiration for small unmanned aerial [...]

Have some aerial photography you need done? Drones aren’t just for hunting terrorists anymore. Soon, you’ll be able to buy and launch your own UAV for cheap. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)–or drones–have been used in [...]

He argues that technological change is producing a growing intolerance for the routine slaughter of earlier wars. FOR streamlined, unmanned aircraft, drones carry a lot of baggage these days, along with their Hellfire missiles. Some [...]