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The drone pilot and other project engineers operated within a make-shift control room.

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Drone used to map radioactive vault at former US weapons site

A drone has mapped a vault full of radioactive powder as part of a decades-long project to clean up a former weapons and nuclear energy test site in Idaho

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A gliding seed from a Javan cucumber

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Gliding sensors inspired by floating seeds will biodegrade after use

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The HapticPuppet drone

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Drones on strings could puppeteer people in virtual reality

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy and drone

Technology

Will Ukraine deploy lethal autonomous drones against Russia?

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A specialized robotic drone sprays layers of cement to create a cylindrical structure in a clean laboratory setting with white background behind a staging area for the structure's construction

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Drone swarm that 3D prints cement structures could construct buildings

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Flying at some 65,000ft, the ultra-lightweight Zephyr S is uniquely capable of providing persistent surveillance or communications over the same area of land or sea for weeks at a time without landing.

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Zephyr solar-powered drone smashes record with 2-month-long flight

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U.S. Soldiers with the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, conduct Mobile Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Integrated Defense System (M-LIDS) training, Camp Buehring, Kuwait, Jan. 25, 2022. The Soldiers trained on the M-LIDS weapon system, which can be mounted on vehicles and is designed to target and disable, or destroy hostile drones or other unmanned aerial vehicles, in support of the Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve advise, assist, and enable mission. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Damian Mioduszewski)

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US Army wants to pack land vehicles with drone-destroying weapons

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Drone with fish-inspired suction disc

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Robot can fly, swim or hitch a ride by sticking to other objects

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Drone with fish-inspired suction disc
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Robotic drones with suction pads can fly, swim or hitch a ride

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Drone swarm avoids crashing in dense forest using new algorithm

A new system of flying while avoiding obstacles enables a swarm of 10 lightweight drones to fly together without crashing into one another

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Watch a swarm of drones navigate a forest without crashing

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The US has a new plan to help tackle criminals using drones

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Surveillance drone saves power by deliberately crashing into walls

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Drones and AI help find pebble-sized meteorite that landed in 2021

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