It’s time to move over, chemical sprays, bug zappers, and sticky mesh netting. Drones ...

A palm-sized drone struck a moth in a test flight, a step toward autonomous mosquito control, but real-world proof is still ...

Before welcoming an AI-guided hunter-killer into the backyard, it's worth asking what else it could eventually be trained to ...

The company is building a tiny, autonomous quadcopter drone designed to detect and eliminate the insects from a digitally mapped-out area. Mimicking a bat, the drone uses ultrasonic sonar to identify ...

In tests, the diminutive unit autonomously tracked, closed in on, and neutralised a moth mid-flight using the sheer force of its high-speed spinning propellers.

HOMEDALE — Terravata is an Idaho-based company that uses drones for a variety of services. One of the most unusual ways the company uses drones is to release beneficial insects to manage pests. In ...

The company recently demonstrated its first successful mid-air insect takedown, a step toward deploying swarms of tiny drones capable of identifying, tracking and intercepting mosquitoes using ...

Tiny drones could one day crawl through collapsed buildings to help find survivors after earthquakes. These micro-robots, inspired by insects, now show flight skills close to the real thing. In lab ...

Dutch scientists have developed the world’s smallest autonomous flapping drone, a dragonfly-like beast with 3-D vision that could revolutionise our experience of everything from pop concerts to ...

Drones are increasingly being used for disaster response, infrastructure inspection and environmental monitoring. However, most drone systems rely primarily on cameras and other visual sensors, which ...