Every year, the US Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) sponsors an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) festival. The theme of this year's festival, which ran from May 12-23, was "Partnership Runs Deep: ONR Unmanned Mine Hunting Technologies help NOAA Explore

Senior Mechanical Engineer Harsha Prahlad, Ph.D. will show off SRI's electroadhesion technology at the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Pasadena, CA this Friday (May 23). The clamping action uses an electrostatic charge distributed on a

A DARPA press release (PDF format) reports that the A160T Hummingbird UAV has set a new world record for unrefueled rotorcraft endurance by staying aloft for 18.7 hours during phase I test demonstrations. It also set a new endurance record