Connected objects

Construction, maintenance: drones that physically interact with their environment

• Drones that can exert force on surfaces and manipulate objects: scientists are working on designs for a new generation of aerial robots that can interact in complex ways with their physical environment.
• At Inria Rennes, researcher Marco Tognon is also developing autonomous drones that can cooperate to transport heavy loads. An approach that is safer than entrusting tasks of this kind to individual heavy-duty machines.
• A team at ETH Zurich has recently published an article on drones that can traverse dense vegetation and slide along obstacles which could soon be used for environmental monitoring and precision agriculture.
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Low-noise innovations: How sounds are contributing to the future of telecoms

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Integrated AI: smartphone gadgets, and productivity tools for PCs

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Le dispositif biosymbiotique mis au point par Phillip Gutruf et ses collaborateurs se recharge sans fil. Avec l’aimable autorisation de Max Farley et Tucker Stuart The biosymbiotic device developed by Phillip Gutruf and his collaborators charges wirelessly. Courtesy of Max Farley and Tucker Stuart

Digital divide: LoRa IoT devices for medical monitoring

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Agtech, agricultural IoT and the threat of cyberattacks: how should the risks be modelled?

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Biofuel cells break new ground in the field of flexible batteries

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IoT: start-up ONiO has built a batteryless microcontroller

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