
Autonomous killer drones set to be used by Turkey in Syria
20 September 2019
Turkey is to become the first nation to use drones able to find, track and kill people without human intervention, when it deploys them in Syria in a few months

20 September 2019
Turkey is to become the first nation to use drones able to find, track and kill people without human intervention, when it deploys them in Syria in a few months

20 September 2019
A drone equipped with a nail gun can autonomously hover over a roof and fix tiles in place. Tests showed it was highly precise and held steady while firing

17 September 2019
A majority of people in the UK support imposing limits on air travel to curb carbon emissions, a sign that social attitudes on climate change may be shifting

4 September 2019
The boom in online retail has left our streets clogged with polluting delivery vans. We navigate the high-tech solutions that will distribute your parcels without the damaging emissions

30 August 2019
A robot pilot is learning to fly. It has passed its pilot’s test and flown its first plane, but it has also had its first mishap too

14 August 2019
While killer bees terrorised the US, in Puerto Rico, an extraordinary accident of evolution has transformed them into a beacon of hope against the threat of insectogeddon

17 July 2019
Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has finally broken its silence, unveiling a brain-computer interface it says people could use to control devices with their minds

16 July 2019
It’s costly to protect southern white rhinos from poachers, but a study suggests the vulnerable animals could be deterred from poaching hotspots using drones

10 July 2019
Criminologist Shane Johnson is not quite Tom Cruise in Minority Report, but he does predict where offences will occur and how best to stop them

3 July 2019