Shield AI's X-BAT fighter drone gets arrowhead redesign for high-speed flight, packing F-35 payload capacity with VTOL ...

The way bats fly suggests that ultrasound could be an alternative to existing navigation technologies, researchers said.

WORCESTER ― A year ago, a Halloween event in Worcester Polytechnic Institute's robotics department inspired a development that could end up saving lives. Nitin Sanket, assistant professor of robotics ...

The future of air combat is starting to look a lot more like something pulled from a design lab that refuses to follow the ...

Bats fly through total darkness without hitting anything by using sound. WPI researchers are building drones to do the same ...

Development of X-BAT is accelerating, including the use of a thrust vectoring nozzle from an experimental F-16 that was ...

Don't be fooled by the fog machine, spooky lights and fake bats: the robotics lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute lab isn't hosting a Halloween party. Instead, it’s a testing ground for tiny drones ...

Search and rescue missions often happen in areas that are difficult for humans to navigate due to extreme weather, rough terrain, or dangerous conditions like smoke or dust. A researcher at Worcester ...

Australia is on a push to keep pace with the rapid evolution of drone warfare, with an emphasis on locally produced Ghost Bat ...

To help small aerial robots navigate in the dark and other low-visibility environments, my colleagues and I developed an ultrasound-based perception system inspired by bat echolocation. Current robots ...