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2017
Drones steer wandering elephants away from danger
Drones are already playing a role in the conservation of Africa's wildlife, with a number of trials underway exploring how the aircraft can be used as surveillance tools to catch and deter poachers.
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2017
Drone dives like a seabird, bursts skyward like a flying fish
We have seen a few aerial drones capable of venturing underwater, but none that can enter and exit the marine environment quite like the so-called AquaMav.
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2016
Tech Shower: IGI getting robot for jumbo wash
Ever wondered how long it takes to clean an aeroplane? Every day, more than 100 aircraft are washed, cleaned, dried and kept them ready for flying at Indira Gandhi International Airport. And it takes about 10 hours to complete the process for each plane.
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2016
Will plans to use commercial aircraft for a worldwide wireless network fly?
AWN's vision would see existing planes fitted with small microwave relay station devices, allowing them to daisy-chain broadband signals to other nearby aircraft, ships and ground stations, providing internet access not only to passengers in-flight, but t
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2016
Motion-sensing wall panels animate boring interiors
As someone walks past, Lumes triggers animations including animals peeking their heads out of grass, raindrops falling, rockets launching, and runners following human movements.
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2016
PV power hits the road in Normandy village
The installation is expected to produce somewhere in the region of 280 MWh of electricity each year, and an information display alongside the solar road powered by the PV array will provide locals with electricity production updates
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2016
Gearing up space robots with metallic glass
In a quest to give robots human-like grace even in the frozen wastes of space, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is looking at exotic gears made out of exotic materials.
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2016
Electronic body hair may increase robots' sensitivity
Made to replicate the fine body hair on natural skin, the tiny sensors are made from pressure-sensitive, glass-coated, cobalt-based microwires.
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2016
Robo-rescue-excavator is made to dig through debris
Scientists from several Japanese universities have created a remote-control robotic excavator that is said to offer drastically improved operability and mobility.
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2016
Science Behind Things: Bluetooth
Without this little invention, our world of connected devices would simply cease to exist
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