The Air Force is sorting through details of how a fleet of low-cost, autonomous drones might fly alongside piloted fighters in future conflicts.. (U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — The Air Force is ...
An 8th Air Force B-17 drops bombs over Marienburg, Germany, in 1943. In the 2020s, uncrewed aerial systems, better known as drones, have become a standard part of modern military tactics. But eight ...
There might be a more intuitive way to control robots and drones than waggling joysticks or tapping at a screen. MIT CSAIL researchers have developed a control method, Conduct-A-Bot, that uses muscle ...
"It allows drones to be operated beyond the pilot's visual line of sight, and it allows multiple drones to operate by one operator or pilot," McDanolds said.