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A robot helicopter has hauled more than 1 million pounds of cargo for the U.S. Marine Corps in less than half a year of testing, but nobody had ever tried hooking cargo to the unmanned helicopter as ...

The U.S. Navy has begun testing its latest drone helicopter with its newest sea-base ship. The trial could lead to the base vessels deploying with mixed fleets of manned and unmanned helicopters. That ...

That’s right. Robot-helicopter carriers. A Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout robo-copter in mid-April 2020 completed “interface testing” on USS Hershel Williams. Williams, which commissioned in March ...

Tom Flanagan spent early March anticipating a dispatch call that he knew would change everything. When public health officials began identifying community spread in the Houston area, the director of ...

It didn't take us civilians long to get used to drones, both military and civilian. In fact, they've been with us for so long that we can barely conceive drones looking anything other than scaled-down ...

The death toll from catastrophic floods in Texas reached at least 67 on Sunday, including 21 children, as the search for girls missing from a summer camp entered a third day.

Looks like researchers at MIT and the University of Washington are busy signing over humanity's future to our robot overlords. Yeah, it seems the brainiacs at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial ...

Miloš robot at its Partner 2017 debut. Rumbling out of helicopters and across grassy fields, the gun-toting robots feel anachronistic. They look like an early dieselpunk fantasy, a rickety background ...