Robotics

Research toward integrating robots into daily life is being developed by Greek labs and startups. Instead of static industrial robots, which have been operating for years in major industrial countries, research has shifted to so-called collaborative robots, which are mostly employed in services and operate alongside and with people.

In Munich, where this week's IAA motor show is taking place, an interactive street survey elicits an overwhelming "yes" when asking passers-by if they would take a self-driving taxi from the station to the Oktoberfest beer festival.

The conflict in Ukraine has brought about a paradigm shift, altering the very nature of warfare in the 21st century. These changes are profound, making it clear that some cost-effective unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to inflict far greater damage than their highly expensive traditional counterparts, such as warplanes.

California authorities have taken a major step forward in expanding driverless taxi services in San Francisco, giving the green light for operators Waymo and Cruise to compete with ride-share services and cabs.

In a bid to combat uncontrolled and unregulated urbanization, which poses a significant threat for a possible earthquake, UAVs will now be utilized to detect illegal structures.

The lack of coherent regulation of the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS-Drones) leads to potential risks to safety, security and privacy.

A group of students from Başkent University have developed an unmanned aerial vehicle that can be used in search and rescue and military operations carried out on land, air and water.

Dronamics, the company founded by brothers Svilen Rangelov and Konstantin Rangelov, announced that it had made the first successful flight of its cargo drone. The test was conducted at an airport near Balchik and the "Black Swan" drone was in the air for just over 10 minutes under remote control by two pilots from the ground.

No foreign objects were attached to the drone, the newspaper said, citing an unnamed source. The details of the incident are not clear, Reuters reported.
Yesterday, three drones were found in the Moscow region, not far from where the alleged kamikaze drone crashed, the Russian news agency Tass reported, citing a source from the security forces.

Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine's southern port city of Odesa early Wednesday but there were no reports of casualties, authorities said.

"At night, the enemy carried out an attack by UAVs of the Shahed-136 type on the Odesa region," Yuriy Kruk, head of the Odesa district military administration, said in a statement on Telegram.