The same day that Amazon announced a trial run of its delivery by drone service in India, a couple of MIT researchers released a new study that shows how to keep delivery drones running efficiently — ...

Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have devised a smart way to help drones find their way through unlit indoor spaces autonomously, without costly night vision cameras. Instead, ...

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 ...

Navigating large, dimly lit warehouses has long been a challenge for autonomous drones. Outdoors, the most common tool used is GPS, but indoors, it becomes useless. Other devices, such as lidar and ...

Drone show accidents underscore the challenges of managing safety in “multiagent systems”—a category that includes robots, drones, and self-driving cars. In response, MIT engineers have developed a ...