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Robotics & UAVs

MGI launches cargo eVTOL UAV demonstrator

Comment: Transforming digital capabilities in engineering

JACKAL drone launches Thales missile in RAF trial

Researchers have designed a low-cost, energy-efficient robotic hand that can grasp a range of objects – and not drop them – using just the movement of its wrist and the feeling in its ‘skin’

Wrist movements and sensors enable robotic hand to grasp and hold onto objects

Flying Solo: Drone technology pushes beyond the horizon

Rowan Armstrong CEO of Bioliberty with Niki Mckenzie, joint MD, Archangels

Bioliberty secures £2.2m for soft robotic glove

MIT researchers developed a soft-rigid robotic finger that incorporates powerful sensors along its entire length, enabling them to produce a robotic hand that could accurately identify objects after only one grasp

MIT robotic hand identifies objects in single grasp

Comment: Fulfilling the UK’s cyberphysical potential

Angelo Cangelosi and his team have been awarded funding to develop the next generation of smart robots who will be able to better understand humans by appreciating our feelings through improved language skills

Manchester team aims for more empathetic robots

Mariantonieta Gutierrez Soto, assistant professor of engineering design in the Penn State School of Engineering Design and Innovation, uses Tobii eye-tracking glasses to assess damages in row buildings in Mayfield, Kentucky after the region endured tornadoes in December 2021

Gaze of building inspectors could inform code for drone inspections

Siemens solar array to inform AI and robotic systems project

Aerial AI project aims to save lives on the battlefield