Defense

Electric-powered aerial drones are on the drawing board. A new prototype by AgustaWestland shows some of the thinking that goes into these ideas....More

A Sopwith Dolphin, a World War I fighter aircraft made by Sopwith Aviation, the same company that made the Sopwith Camel, was fully restored using parts scavenged from other Dolphins along with parts made to specs from original drawings...More

WWI fighter finally restored...More

Curiosity, NASA’s Martian rover, periodically checks to see how much its drive wheels are slipping in loose gravel or sand by comparing the distance it actually travels to how far it has been told to move....More

William Adams works in the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence at the Naval Research Laboratory, where he supports research in human-robot interaction, sensing, and autonomy....More