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Robotic Paint Removal System
Air Force Research LaboratoryWright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH+1 937-255-0017www.wpafb.af.mil AFRL Materials Integrity engineers recently played a key role in enabling the safer and more efficient removal of paint...
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Stratasys Unveils High-Production Additive Manufacturing Spin-Off
Traditional manufacturers have long sought to combine the benefits of additive manufacturing with the material, quality, and economics of traditional production processes....
Articles Aerospace
XPONENTIAL 2018 – An AUVSI Experience
The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) is bringing this year's XPONENTIAL 2018 to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO. The event, which runs from April 30 – May 3,...
INSIDER Defense
New Unmanned Air System Tested on USS Coronado
Researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) successfully tested their Nomad flight vehicle off of USS Coronado (LCS 4) recently. This test demonstrated the Nomad’s upgraded...
INSIDER Sensors/Data Acquisition
University Researchers Give Self-Driving Vehicles a Boost
While the future of vehicles may be driverless, West Virginia University is steering the technology in the right direction. More and more cars being sold today include semi-automated...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Wave Glider Surfs Across Stormy Drake Passage in Antarctica
The Southern Ocean is key to Earth’s climate, but the same gusting winds, big waves and strong currents that are important to ocean physics make it perilous for oceanographers....
INSIDER Defense
Controlling Drones with the Human Brain
A researcher from Arizona State University wants to command machines with the human brain. In fact, within ten years, Panagiotis Artemiadis, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at...
INSIDER Materials
Batteries That “Drink” Seawater Could Power Long-Range UUVs
The long range of airborne drones helps them perform critical tasks in the skies. Now MIT spinout Open Water Power (OWP) aims to greatly improve the range of unpiloted...
INSIDER Photonics/Optics
Robot’s Speed-of-Light Communication Could Protect You From Danger
Cornell University researchers are developing a system to enable teams of robots to share information as they move around, and if necessary, interpret what they see. This...
Articles Defense
Interoperability Standards Pave the Way for Modular Robotic Manipulators
Unmanned vehicles have long been used by the military to handle situations characterized by the three Ds: dull, dirty, and dangerous. As the use of unmanned ground...
Briefs Aerospace
Gesture-Based Controls for Robots: Overview and Implications for Use by Soldiers
Afuture vision of the use of autonomous and intelligent robots in dismounted military operations is for soldiers to interact with robots as teammates, much like...
Briefs Aerospace
Identifying the Flow Physics and Modeling Transient Forces on Two-Dimensional Wings
The main objective of this research was to better understand the flow physics of aircraft wings undergoing highly unsteady maneuvers. Reduced-order models play a central role in this study, both to elucidate the overall dynamical mechanisms behind various flow...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
NASA Tests Robotic Ice Tools
Since 2015, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has been developing new technologies for use on future missions to ocean worlds. That includes a subsurface probe that could burrow through...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
New Robotic System Finds and Destroys Explosive Threats
In combat, land mine and improvised explosive device (IED) clearance is a slow, painstaking, stressful job that physically and mentally drains soldiers and military working dogs....
INSIDER Aerospace
Swarms of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles Test New Dogfighting Skills
Aerial dogfighting began more than a century ago in the skies over Europe with propeller-driven fighter aircraft carried aloft on wings of fabric and wood. An event held...
INSIDER Software
Language Learning Robot Could Advance Autonomous Vehicles
A Purdue University researcher and his team are developing technology to give robots the ability to learn language. A team led by Jeffrey Mark Siskind, associate professor in Purdue’s...
INSIDER Unmanned Systems
High-Speed, Autonomous Surface Patrol Capability Demonstrated
After a year of internal research and development, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, recently conducted a large, at-sea demonstration...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Army Researchers Demonstrate 3-D Printed Drones
Soldiers witnessed the innovation of Army researchers recently during flight testing of 3-D printed unmanned aircraft systems that were created on-demand for specific missions.
INSIDER Imaging
Researcher Creates System to Control Robots With the Brain
A researcher at Arizona State University has discovered how to control multiple robotic drones using the human brain. A controller wears a skull cap outfitted with 128 electrodes...
INSIDER Test & Measurement
Engineers Use Cyborg Insects as Biorobotic Sensing Machines
A team of engineers from Washington University in St. Louis is looking to capitalize on the sense of smell in locusts to create new biorobotic sensing systems that could be used in...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
UAV Can Launch Aerial Missions from Underwater
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, have developed an innovative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that can stay on station beneath the water...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Robotic Falcon Captures and Retrieves Renegade Drones
Michigan Technological University is developing a drone catcher that could pursue and capture rogue drones that might threaten military installations, air traffic, sporting events —...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Cockroach-Inspired Robots Open Doors for Military Missions
Supported by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, University of California-Berkeley researchers have developed a small, crawling robot that mimics a cockroach's ability to squeeze through...
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Soldiers Field-Test Robotics Technology
Picture a hot summer day in Afghanistan, and a company of 25th Infantry Division soldiers preparing to move to a new area of operation. Instead of using their legs and backs, these soldiers are fortunate...
INSIDER Aerospace
Army’s “Robo-Raven” UAV Flies with Flapping Wings
In the future, it's possible that some unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) might sport wings that flap like a bird or a butterfly. The Army Research Lab has been testing such a UAV, known as...
INSIDER Unmanned Systems
Killer Robots - Army Studies Challenges of Remote Lethality
The military has used and experimented with robots that perform functions such as scouting and surveillance, carrying supplies and detecting and disposing of improvised homemade bombs....
INSIDER Aerospace
DARPA Teams With Industry to Create Spaceplane
DARPA has created an Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) to create a new paradigm for more routine, responsive, and affordable space operations. In an important step toward that goal, DARPA has awarded...
INSIDER Aerospace
Hurricane-Tracking Unmanned Systems Win NASA Challenge
NASA has selected three winning designs solicited to address the technological limitations of the uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) currently used to track and collect data on hurricanes....
INSIDER Robotics, Automation & Control
Synthetic Aperture Sonar Can Help Navy Hunt Sea Mines
Since World War II, sea mines have damaged or sunk four times more U.S. Navy ships than all other means of attack combined, according to a Navy report on mine warfare. New sonar research...
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