Watch a long-range autonomous drone boat come to life! In this video, we build, tune, and test a fully autonomous boat, ...

The invention may sound like a quirky science fair project, but it solves a serious problem. Scientists invent tiny ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — In between the speedboats, luxury yachts, and wooden fishing boats moored in a Hong Kong marina, a different kind of vessel maneuvers. It looks unassuming, but as the ...

Citizen Science is a great way to get normal people engaged in the work of understanding our world. For residents who live near a stunningly polluted waterway — like, say, the gross Gowanus Canal — it ...

Mechanical engineering students have developed an unmanned sailing boat that can reach any given destination completely autonomously. The Avalon robot sailing boat is due to set sail from Ireland in ...

BOSTON -- Self-driving cars may not hit the road in earnest for many years -- but autonomous boats could be just around the pier. Spurred in part by the car industry's race to build driverless ...

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These new robots might look like toy sailboats, but they've already sent back data from inside a Category 5 hurricane.

The TUM robot, which weighs in at 120 kg, is enveloped by a buoyancy foam that keeps it in a suspended-like state in the ...

Robots are taking over all kinds of jobs. However that makes you feel, one bright spot is that bots can help reduce risks to humans in certain perilous professions. For those tracking the robotics ...