Ingenuity, the helicopter assisting NASA's Mars Perseverance rover on its mission, has been a huge success. It gathered the achievement of the first controlled flight on another heavenly body, has ...

The Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) at Johns Hopkins University, on behalf of NASA's New Frontiers Program, has begun construction of a nuclear-powered rotorcraft drone named Dragonfly. Appearing for ...

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Firstly, Arcadia’s creative process often begins with finding interesting pieces of disused machinery. They received a tip about a decommissioned military helicopter for sale at an air base in ...

Hasbro‘s last crowdfunded G.I. Joe HasLab toy, the Cobra HISS tank, still hasn’t arrived yet. But the company is already hard at work on the next 6-inch scaled vehicle to fight it. As suspected by ...

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory engineers Max Wolbeck and Daniel Peterson install rotors on a model of half the Dragonfly aircraft for testing. Credit: NASA The team has started assembling ...