These machines are not carrying machineguns or flying covert missions over battlefields, but they are amazing to watch. Via [newscientist]
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Shiny penguin, jellyfish, and manta ray robots swim gracefully through the water – and air
Posted by Eric on June 18th, 2010
Posted in aquatic, biomimetic, entertainment, flying, video 
Tags: Festo, jellyfish, manta, penguin 
No Comments »Predator drones are now patrolling US/Mexico border
Posted by Eric on June 15th, 2010
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Posted in defense, flying, government, milestone, military / law enforcement Tags: aerial, border, drone, predator, uav, US No Comments »Incredibly agile autonomous quadrotors
Posted by Eric on June 14th, 2010
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Posted in autonomous, flying, video Tags: agile, flight, meaneuver, quadcopter, quadrotors No Comments »Robots in Combat: A True Revolution or Just Techno-Hype?
Posted by Eric on June 9th, 2010
An article at nationaldefensemagazine.org yesterday commented: P.W. Singer, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the bestseller “Wired for War, recently spoke “…about the staggering rise in the deployment of robots on the battlefield. The U.S. military had only a handful of robots when it invaded Iraq. Now it operates 7,000 unmanned aircraft and more [...]
Posted in AI, DARPA, defense, ethics, flying, future, government, military / law enforcement, weapon Tags: combat, hype, military, revolution No Comments »Robotic laser canon shoots down flying robots – welcome to the future!
Posted by Eric on June 1st, 2010
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Posted in DARPA, defense, flying, military / law enforcement, weapon Tags: anti-missile, auto-target, laser, LaWS, phalanx, r2-d2, robot No Comments »Robot chopper chalks up drug bust while still in testing
Posted by Eric on June 1st, 2010
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Posted in flying, military / law enforcement, testing, video Tags: aerial, aircraft, chopper, drugbust, fire scout, robocopter No Comments »Robot Wars: The 6 scariest unmanned aerial vehicles
Posted by Eric on May 28th, 2010
Informative compilation of modern UAV’s on [dvice]
Monocopter flies with just one wing
Posted by Eric on May 24th, 2010
Evan Ulrich, a student at the University of Maryland, has produced an MAV (micro air vehicle) with only one wing. It was modeled and named after a maple seed samara, shown at the beginning of the video. The motor and propeller sit on one end of a beam, and a weight on the other end, and [...]
Posted in DARPA, flying, military / law enforcement, video Tags: flying, helicopter, helo, mav, monocopter, robot, samara No Comments »"Phantom Ray" – Jet-Fighter Sized Stealth Plane Robot
Posted by Eric on May 11th, 2010
Boeing’s “Phantom Works” division unveiled its newest creation at a press conference yesterday – the Phantom Ray. The Phantom Ray is one of the first such aircraft that was funded by the company itself, and did not wait for bids from government/military agencies. Read more at [theRegister]
