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Firefighting Drones Are Being Tested Across the US Before Wildfires Get Out of Hand
California and Alaska trials show small autonomous drones can douse fires in minutes. They cannot replace big airtankers, but they may stop a spark from becoming an inferno.
This Drone Is Practically Invisible to the Human Eye. AI Designed It That Way.
Roboticists at Northwestern University used a computer optimiser to build a spinning drone that blurs itself into the background. The result is ten times harder to spot than a normal quadrotor.
The Dutch Navy Is Testing Crewless Warships Run by AI
Two unmanned patrol vessels are circling target ships off the Dutch coast. No sailors onboard. A computer decides where they go.
US Military Used Explosive Drone Boats in Combat for the First Time
On the night of July 12, three unmanned sea drones destroyed an Iranian submarine and a naval maintenance facility. America had never used this kind of weapon in a real attack before.
Ondas pays $875.8 million for drone maker DZYNE, betting big on AI-guided military systems
The deal bundles long-range spy drones, drone-killing interceptors, and AI cargo gliders into a single defence platform the company is calling Ondas Sentinel.