forbes.com — Drones With ‘Most Advanced AI Ever’ Coming Soon To Law Enforcement. Founded by Google veterans and backed by $340 million from major VCs, Skydio is creating drones that target this market. This year, America’s border police will test automated drones from Skydio who recently announced it had raised …

interestingengineering.com — Some of the earliest recorded aircraft designs, including the ones depicted in Leonardo Da Vinci's sketches, were ornithopters — machines that incorporated flapping wings, much like birds and insects, in order to lift into the air. Now, hundreds of years later, a team of engineers in Russia returned…

geekwire.com — Aerovel is developing a new drone it calls the Flexrotor, which is designed to take off and land vertically, like a helicopter, then transition into horizontal flight using wings for lift, like an airplane. Aerovel says the Flexrotor can stay aloft for up to 32 hours — a record for drones in its cla…

newatlas.com — Scientists from MIT, Harvard University and City University of Hong Kong developed a drone with soft actuators. Each actuator takes the form of a thin rubber cylinder coated in carbon nanotubes. When voltage is applied to the device, the nanotubes produce an electrostatic force which both squeezes a…