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See four examples from the latest research on drone shape-changing abilities that enable unmanned aerial vehicles to slip into areas they would otherwise be unable to enter.

Chemical catalysis technology is harnessed to achieve autonomous movement and reconfiguration of the sheet in a reactant-filled fluid.

DroneGun Tactical provides a safe countermeasure against a wide range of drone models and safely manages drone payloads, including dangerous ones like explosives, with no damage to the drone or environment.

Gravity towers, pumped hydro, lithium-ion batteries and other alternatives are competing for hundreds of billions of dollars that will be spent on new energy storage capacity in the coming decades.

Commercial drones are beginning to receive praise from numerous industries as costs associated with inspection can be greatly reduced through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a savings potential that is extremely attractive to the oil and gas industry.

Astronaut William Anders might not have taken the iconic Earthrise image had the stars not lined up, figuratively speaking.

The mechanical design uses passive movement but was able to mimic different piano styles.

By introducing biological principles of self-organization to swarm robotics, researchers have found it possible to get hundreds of coin-size robots to work together based only on local communication and movement – and without an underlying master plan.

Energy Vault’s towers raise and lower thousands of concrete blocks to store and generate electricity.

As part of Industry 4.0, digital pneumatic cyber-physical systems will drive productivity improvements and cost reductions by boosting the efficiency of physical manufacturing processes through autonomous algorithmic control, flexible reconfigurability and the provision of a rich tapestry of data from the factory floor.

The installation, which was presented to the public in mid-December at RPI's Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, included field recordings, interviews and the sonification of mass amounts of data collected by the Jefferson Project.

A bioreactor uses carbon dioxide-consuming chemolithoautotrophs to convert the gas into valuable chemicals.

To better understand the forces at work in volcanoes, researchers conducted a series of explosive experiments focusing on what happens when lava meets water.

The OSIRIS-Rex mission has revealed water locked inside the clays that make up the asteroid Bennu.