Luca Curci Architects designs a zero-energy smart city of the future
According to the United Nations, 5 billion people are projected to live in cities by 2030. In response to the growing...
Autonomous Draper Drone to detect microplastics in the water
Microplastic pollution is everywhere, but its size — less than five millimeters in length — makes the threat...
Architects design giant air purifying towers to fight Delhi’s air pollution
According to WHO, air quality in India’s capital of Delhi is among the worst in the world and is the fifth leading...
Drones are the new cost-effective way to monitor the environment
Conservationists, researchers and volunteers have spent countless hours on the ground keeping tabs on water quality...
Drones: the future of ocean conservation
Unmanned systems such as drones, are increasingly used in a variety of fields — from border patrol, to cinematography...
Drone operators disturbing wildlife incur fines and jail time in Scotland
The number of cases in Scotland involving drone interference with animals on nature reserves has increased, causing...
Foster + Partners’ DJI HQ will be a “creative community in the sky”
Foster + Partners have unveiled designs for the new headquarters of DJI, the makers of the world’s most popular...
Daan Roosegaarde reveals vision for air-purifying Smog Free Drones
Studio Roosegaarde's Smog Free Project continues to create bubbles of clean air throughout the world - the team...
This entire barley field was planted and harvested without humans
Drones and autonomous machinery just seeded, tended, and harvested a crop of barley in the United Kingdom without...
Drones are planting an entire forest from the sky
When we think of drones, most of us picture the selfie-taking, novelty video-making robots buzzing around tourist...
Solar-powered drone Skystation sits atop Trump World Tower in New York
Kayak architects wants to change how we get around cities - so they've developed a solar-powered Skystation to...
Drones weave moth-inspired pavilion from carbon fiber threads
The buildings of the future could be built with the help of drones. The unmanned aerial vehicles were put to the...
Dubai plans to launch autonomous flying drone taxis by mid-2017
Adding to its reputation as a leader in experimental transportation, Dubai is hoping to launch autonomous air taxis...
Japanese scientists build tiny drone that pollinates like a bee
As concern over dwindling bee populations mounts, a team of chemists at a Japanese institution came up with a robotic...
Futuristic Urban Droneport could act as a hub for drone deliveries
Companies from Amazon to Facebook have bet on drones as the aerial vehicles of the future. But many locales lack...
Urban farming, food markets and parks replace banks and parking lots in this masterplan for Amsterdam
The project offers a solution to some of the issues plaguing the city center which is crowded with tourists, suffers...
Air Shepherd drones hunt poachers using cyanide to poison Zimbabwe wildlife
An elephant is slaughtered every 14 minutes in Africa, according to a group called Air Shepherd that is utilizing...
Airbus to build flying autonomous taxis that soar over traffic
If you’ve ever found yourself stuck in traffic, wishing you could just fly above the chaos, you might soon get...
Avoid Obvious designs the first drone highway for a utopian Chinese city
http://youtu.be/rj3aUPSiolQ Located in the heart of the Pearl River Delta, Bao’an is a quickly modernizing...
Foster + Partners’ Droneport will launch aerial vehicles to deliver medical supplies in Africa
Hundreds of thousands of Africans die every year from malaria and sickle cell disease due to a lack of access to...
London man receives bionic arm with a USB port and built-in flashlight
A London man who lost his arm following a traumatic train accident has been offered a new lease on life. He's the...
Afghan brothers’ mine-hunting drone could eradicate all mines within 10 years
American children of the nineties are likely to remember an addictive video game that required the lone player...
Flying drones autonomously build a 24-foot rope bridge strong enough for humans
[youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCDIuZUfETc&w=537&h-302] The dexterity and speed with which...
Underwater robots seek and kill invasive starfish
Some killer robots are a good thing. While our planet experiences what many scientists are referring to as the...
Austrian scientists create a cheap, flexible solar cell just 3 micrometers thick
The age old mineral perovskite has been something of a holy grail in solar cell development; the mineral is abundant,...
Can drones plant one billion trees?
[youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NRNY1-8GGU] Each year, the earth loses about 26 billion trees to lumber,...
6 ways people are using aerial drones for good
Ambulance Drone Delft University graduate Alex Monton created an Ambulance Drone that can arrive to an accident...
Ambulance Drone Could Provide Life-Saving First Aid in Just One Minute
When you have an emergency, the time it takes for help to arrive can be the difference between life and death....
Horizon Mass Transit System is an All-Electric Train-Plane Hybrid
The Horizon System is an entirely electric system of transportation conceived as a hybrid between a plane and a...
Facebook Unveils Plans for Solar-Powered Internet Drones as Big as 747s
Yael Maguire, the engineering director at Facebook's Connectivity Lab, has revealed further details about the social...