China’s next Mars explorer is not a rover that crawls or a helicopter that hovers, but a hybrid drone that can roll across the ground and then leap into the thin air when terrain turns hostile. By ...

Ukraine is now using robotic dogs on the battlefield, the first known combat deployment of such machines. The robots were supplied by a British company and are not autonomous; they are operated by ...

The fundamental design principles behind rotary-wing aircraft date back to the Renaissance, with some of the earliest-known designs belonging to Leonardo da Vinci. Naturally, technology has ...