Borrowing a trick from the Air Force, whose planes can complete long-range missions thanks to in-flight refueling from tanker aircraft, researchers at UC Berkeley showed off a novel way to keep small ...

Over the years, we've seen a number of drones that are designed to capture other drones. One of the latest, aptly named the Drone Interceptor, utilizes detachable net-pulling propellers to get the job ...

Despite being integral to aviation for more than a century, propellers have changed remarkably little since the Wright Brothers. A team at MIT’s Lincoln Lab has developed a new propeller shape that ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. When are two propellers better than four? When they give your drone extra battery life, greater portability, ...

Figure 1 shows a bottom-up view of a drone propeller with one collapsible tip. The collapsible propeller tips technology is the latest patent to come out of the Seattle-based company's futuristic ...

Over the past few years, labels such as DJI have pushed drones into the mainstream. If you look closely, you'll notice that a majority of them have four propellers, while helicopters have fewer of ...

The Karma hasn’t yet relaunched after an expensive recall — but GoPro is already quietly working to make catastrophic drone crashes a little less disastrous on owners’ bank accounts. Karma Core is a ...