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U.S. Army Wants To Microwave Drones in Midair

Aug 15, 2019 | Defense

The U.S. Army, as part of a broad counter-unmanned aerial systems strategy, is pushing forward with the U.S. Air Force to develop a high-powered microwave weapon. A microwave would short out the electronics of a drone in flight, causing it to crash. The weapon’s...

Advanced Traffic Management Next Big Thing

Aug 15, 2019 | Smart Cities

Traffic congestion is rising in cities around the world. Contributing factors include expanding urban populations, aging infrastructure, inefficient and uncoordinated traffic signal timing and a lack of real-time data. The impacts are significant. Traffic data...

Cane-based Companion Robot Supports Mobility-impaired

Aug 15, 2019 | Featured, Mobility

Taking inspiration from the traditional cane, a team of researchers from Columbia Engineering in New York has come up with a LiDAR-enabled robotic assistant which offers light-touch support for the mobility-impaired. Dubbed Canine, the device improves the user’s...

Teaching Robots to Build Their Own Tools

Aug 15, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured

When the robot revolution comes, the weapons robots use to destroy us could be cobbled together from the scraps of our own society. You’ve been warned. More realistically, though, researchers like a group at Georgia Tech are trying to figure out how robots can help us...