13 February 2023
A spate of shootdowns involving balloons and other flying objects over North America comes as the US military is becoming more sensitive to unidentified aerial phenomena
1 November 2022
Ukraine has used drones in innovative ways throughout the Russia-Ukraine war, and may now be preparing to deploy machines capable of finding and attacking targets without direct human control
24 February 2016
Facebook’s incredible mapping feat shows that neural networks are starting to do serious volumes of work seriously fast. Here’s why it matters
26 November 2014
A new collision avoidance system for drones lets them see each other on camera and take steps to minimise the risk of crashing mid-air
17 October 2014
Google has found another way to reach into our lives with its same-day delivery service. But it needs to harness new technology to make Google Express viable
10 September 2014
Can a robot learn right from wrong? Attempts to imbue robots, self-driving cars and military machines with a sense of ethics reveal just how hard this is
8 July 2014
A new wave of games uses thousands of photos to recreate every detail of the real world and heighten our sense of immersion
18 June 2014
It's getting harder to find people to work on farms in the US – robo-farmers are shifting plants and could soon be picking strawberries in their place
14 May 2014
You can buy a drone in a toy store and they're all over YouTube – but US law still doesn't know what to do with them
12 March 2014
Big tech firms like Facebook and Google want to bring the internet to the poor world, but their high-flying access points can be only part of the solution
