Drones. They crash. A lot. Right now, they’re only as good as their pilots, which often means “not very.” As for so-called autonomous drones, they’re fine in well-documented open spaces, but have a ...

Today's drone aircraft are capable of impressive feats of aerial acrobatics, but a single drone can't do much. Most proposed applications for drone aircraft call for a flock of them, but the risk of ...

Knowing when someone will greet you with a hug, kiss or handshake can be hard enough for humans -- but it's getting a little easier for computers. A group of researchers at MIT's Computer Science and ...

We're much better at following weather patterns today than a couple hundred years ago, but we're still relatively green when predicting extreme weather. Today's community-specific extreme weather ...