Orcas seen ramming prey so hard it explodes may be playing game. Orcas were observed to hold sunfish in their jaws while a second whale smashed into the target at high speed, causing it to break into thousands of pieces. Since the fish had already been killed, the behaviour may be a form of play.

Uncrewed ground vehicles can carry supplies and casualties across exposed routes where soldiers and crewed vehicles face drone and artillery threat (Picture: ARX Robotics) The British Army has completed the first phase of research and development on land drone swarms, one of the technologies named in the Strategic Defence Review’s promise to make the Army…

Researchers at the University of Toronto's Continuum Robotics Laboratory introduced CRAFT, a 3D-printed modular design library for tendon-driven continuum robots that allows a single robot to physically reconfigure its shape, stiffness, and degrees of freedom within minutes by snapping together six interchangeable modules. The same base robot was reconfigured into a long teleoperated probe for…

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