Robotics & Autonomous Systems

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (702+ words) A Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on July 30, 2026. U.S. Space Force / Gwendolyn Kurzen NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.— Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will get new defenses against small drones in coming weeks, part of a “whole-of-government” effort to…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (252+ words) Biomechanics is the scientific study of the mechanics of living structures, or of non-living structures such as silk or nacre that are produced by organisms. The recently extinct thylacine was Australia’s largest marsupial predator and famously likened to dog-family carnivorans…...

11+ hour, 49+ min ago   (1598+ words) "The future a few years from now probably won't be that different from today." If you are thinking that, you might be slightly misjudging the speed of technological evolution. Currently, the evolution curve of cutting-edge technologies, starting with artificial intelligence…...

6+ hour, 13+ min ago   (582+ words) It’s not stupid if it works, and in this day and age, the tech around us simply allows us to make some crazy dreams come true. Well, one designer chose to build a device that, although looks absolutely meaningless, comes…...

6+ hour, 5+ min ago   (459+ words) The vehicle-launched drone has a range of 1,000 km, endurance of up to eight hours and a 50 kg payload capacity, and is designed for precision strikes on designated targets...

9+ hour, 26+ min ago   (447+ words) Published Sep 20, 2026 11:01 AM EDT There are plenty of safety concerns to consider when deploying robots in workplaces like warehouses alongside human workers. They can lead to malfunctions, injuries, fires — and in extreme cases, even deaths. And now that we’re inching…...

9+ hour, 57+ min ago   (1382+ words) A 44.1-gram drone uses pressure-sensing artificial whiskers for wall following and tactile mapping, with its onboard autonomy occupying about 34 KB of additional RAM. By Lab Report · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 20, 2026 · How we edit A 44.1-gram quadcopter has learned…...

9+ hour, 59+ min ago   (416+ words) Multimodal sensor fusion architectures such as TransFuser achieve strong waypoint-based driving performance by fusing RGB panoramas and LiDAR bird’s-eye-view (BEV) representations through transformer attention, but their dual backbones and quadratic-cost fusion blocks preclude deployment on resource-constrained platforms. This work proposes…...

20+ hour, 7+ min ago   (478+ words) Drones built with small, non-frontier computer-vision models autonomously identified and attacked targets in a recent demo. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Drones built with small, non-frontier computer-vision models…...

17+ hour, 27+ min ago   (709+ words) If ride-sharing vehicles without anyone in the driver's seat and Cybertrucks without rear-view mirrors freak you out to any degree, then you may not want to know about the newest innovation in autonomous car technology. Earlier this month, Tesla's new…...