France has taken an important step in modernizing its infantry forces by delivering 1,000 reconnaissance microdrones to the ...

About 2 cm long and weighing just 0.3 grams, the insect-inspired device features two tiny wings and three spindly legs. Its minuscule size would make it difficult to detect using conventional radar ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego and CEA-Leti have unveiled a pioneering microactuator driving system that integrates energy storage with voltage conversion, setting a new ...

An innovative circuit design could enable miniature devices, such as microdrones and other microrobotics, to be powered for longer periods of time while staying lightweight and compact. Using ...

Senior author Patrick Mercier (left), a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and first author Zixiao Lin, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student, both of UC San Diego, ...

The Pentagon is sending additional Patriot and National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) munitions to Ukraine as part of the latest batch of U.S. aid, announced July 25. The drawdown ...

Ukrainian soldiers will soon have a new gadget to help give them an edge over Russia. Britain, which has already supplied the country with a number of defensive devices like Javelin anti-tank missiles ...

The six-inch Black Hornet drones were first used by British forces during the invasion of Afghanistan. The drones originally come from Norway and are part of the new £54 million aid package from ...

Micromachines controlled and directed by light are an attractive prospect for multiple applications, but achieving adequate control in multiple directions and full degrees of freedom is challenging. A ...

Microscopic drones can be precisely driven using light alone 1. These devices could have many applications, such as assembling nanostructures and scanning surfaces with ultrahigh resolution. The ...

Propelling micrometre-sized drones using light only and exerting precise control: Physicists at the University of Würzburg have succeeded at this for the first time. Their microdrones are ...