Insect swarms might generate as much electric charge as storm clouds
You might feel a spark when you talk to your crush, but living things don’t require romance to make electricity. A study published October 24 in…
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Swarms of advanced unmanned aircraft to collect key environmental data
Credit: University of Sheffield
Swarms of advanced unmanned…
Swarms of Satellites Are Tracking Illegal Fishing and Logging
Fishing boats kept washing up in Japan with dead North Koreans on board. Dozens were documented every year, but they spiked in 2017, with more than 100 boats…
Swarms of Mini Robots Could Dig the Tunnels of the Future
There’s no shortage of work out there, either. China recently completed a 20-kilometer railway tunnel in the Longmen Mountains after a decade of…
Drone swarms can now fly autonomously through thick forest
This Handout photo provided by Yuman Gao and Rui Jin on May 4, 2022 shows a new…
Molecular robots that work cooperatively in swarms
Schematic illustrations of cargo transport by a swarm of molecular robots (top) and…
Astronomers Want to Save Dark Skies from Satellite Swarms
Last Thursday, on the same day that SpaceX launched 49 Starlink internet relay satellites—joining more than 2,000 others in what is by far the biggest…
Korean Air First to Use Drone Swarms for Aircraft Inspection
Advancements in drone technology over recent years has encouraged an increasing number of airlines to utilize the flying machines for aircraft safety…
NASA is sending a spacecraft on a 12-year journey to explore swarms of asteroids around Jupiter
Early this weekend, a new robotic explorer built by NASA is set to launch deep into the Solar System, with its sights set on exploring a large swarm of…
Satellite swarms will be visible to the naked eye. That’s astronomers’ nightmare
Fleets of private satellites orbiting Earth will be visible to the naked eye in the next few years, sometimes all night long.
Companies like SpaceX…