DJI just announced the Neo 2 drone, which is a follow-up to last year's model. This one has LiDAR for obstacle avoidance.

Abstract: Data understanding of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is essential for achieving embodied intelligence in mobile robots. However, the lack of semantic differentiation in 2-D point clouds ...

Ashaju; The field of integrated photonics has the potential to enable advancements in key technologies such as Quantum ...

Abstract: LiDAR bundle adjustment (BA) is an effective approach to reduce the drifts in pose estimation from the front-end. Existing works on LiDAR BA usually rely on predefined geometric features for ...

Training for—and running—a marathon is no easy feat. But half of the battle is finding the best products to support your journey. Presenting: our 2025 (unofficial) Marathon Awards. As editors, we’re ...

Minnesota fire investigators are sharpening their skills with hands-on training, solving fire mysteries in staged scenarios.

Brain-training games are all the rage, but whether they prevent cognitive decline has been debatable. Studies in recent years have gone back and forth on the topic, with no definitive conclusion. Many ...

Drone-maker Orkid has unveiled a new variant of its Orkid 260 drone that incorporates four technologies to improve aerial data-capture technology. According to the company, the Orkid 260VTOL ...

After weeks of threats from President Donald Trump to deploy military troops into Illinois over the vehement objections of Gov. JB Pritzker and other Democratic leaders, Texas National Guard members ...

Unlike other UAVs that can only carry some of these payloads individually, the ORKID 260 is the first Class 1 UAV that will deliver all four at once in a single system — with seamless calibration, ...

October 7, 2025 — Aerospace firm ORKID has introduced a new variant of its ORKID 260 drone. According to a press release from ORKID, the ORKID 260VTOL is “the world’s first vertical take-off and ...