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Yamato agrees to jointly develop flying delivery trucks with U.S. firm
Yamato Holdings Co. said Friday it has agreed to jointly develop an unmanned cargo aircraft with Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. of the United States, aiming to launch the "flying truck" by the mid-2020s amid a labor shortage in the logistics industry. Yamato said it will ...
China's cheaper armed drones now flying across Mideast battlefields
High above Yemen's rebel-held city of Hodeida, a drone controlled by Emirati forces hovered as an SUV carrying a top Shiite Houthi rebel official turned onto a small street and stopped, waiting for another vehicle in its convoy to catch up. Seconds later, the SUV ...
Hokkaido newspaper successfully tests newspaper delivery by drone
A Hokkaido newspaper company tested delivery by drone on Friday to determine whether the unmanned aircraft can be relied on to bring news to the public in times of disaster. Two weeks after a level 7 earthquake caused deadly landslides and a prefecture-wide blackout, a ...
The European Parliament on Wednesday passed a resolution calling for an international ban on the development, production and use of "killer robots" — weapons that kill without a human deciding to fire. Autonomous weapons are machines programmed to select and attack targets using artificial intelligence, ...
Venezuelan general nabbed in drone assassination plot against Maduro as suspect list grows to 34
The investigation into an assassination attempt on Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro using drones has widened to include the arrest of two high-ranking military officers, the nation's top prosecutor said Tuesday. The list of suspects — including an exiled opposition lawmaker — has now risen to ...
Venezuela to try opposition lawmakers for failed drone attack on President Nicolas Maduro
Venezuela's all-powerful constituent assembly was to launch proceedings Wednesday to try opposition lawmakers over a failed "attack" on President Nicolas Maduro, who also accused exiled opposition leader Julio Borges over the incident. Constituent Assembly chief Diosdado Cabello called the session to strip the lawmakers of ...
Venezuela vows to 'root out' plots after Maduro alleged assassination bid backed by Colombia
Venezuelan authorities vowed Monday to "root out" plots against President Nicolas Maduro after what they said was a weekend drone "assassination" bid backed by Colombia. An accusation by Maduro that his Colombian counterpart, Juan Manuel Santos, was behind the incident has worsened already fraught ties ...
Risk of drone strikes is highlighted by apparent attack in Venezuela
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused political foes of trying to kill him during an open-air speech Saturday using explosives-laden drones, prompting a host of questions about the alleged attack and who might have been behind it. Wherever the investigation leads, Maduro's allegations raised the specter ...
Unknown group targets Venezuela's Maduro with drone bombs during nationally broadcast speech
Drones armed with explosives detonated near Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in an apparent assassination attempt that took place while he was delivering a speech to soldiers, broadcast live on television on Saturday. A previously unknown group calling itself "Soldiers in T-shirts" claimed responsibility, saying it ...
Cockroach 'bots' and rugged delivery drones wow at U.K.'s biggest air show
Boffins at U.K. engineering giant Rolls-Royce proudly displayed an array of miniature robots at this year's Farnborough air show, best known as a major marketplace for passenger planes but also a test bed for the aviation industry's wilder imaginings. Designed to speed up engine overhauls, ...
The Iranian-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen said it had attacked a Saudi Aramco refinery in Riyadh on Wednesday using a drone, but the oil company said a limited fire at the plant was due to "an operational incident. "Our drone air forces have targeted the ...
Australia buys high-tech drones to monitor South China Sea, Pacific
Australia will invest 7 billion Australian dollars ($5.2 billion) to develop and buy high-tech U.S. drones for joint military operations and to monitor waters including the South China Sea, it said Tuesday. Canberra has been embarking on its largest peacetime naval investment through a massive ...
