Category Archives: Research

Researchers from Bochum and Saarbrücken have detected security vulnerabilities, some of them serious, in several drones made by the manufacturer DJI. These enable users, for example, to change a drone’s serial number or override the mechanisms that allow security authorities to track the drones and their pilots. In special attack scenarios, the drones can even be brought down remotely in flight. Continue reading →

A team of researchers at the Microsoft Autonomous Systems and Robotics Research Group including Sai Vemprala, Rogerio Bonatti, Arthur Bucker, and Ashish Kapoor has extended the capabilities of ChatGPT to robotics, and controlled multiple platforms such as robot arms, drones, and home assistant robots intuitively with language. Continue reading →

Scientists at the College of Computer Science and Cyber Security, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu and the National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Information System Security, Beijing, China have just published a paper entitled ‘Safeguarding UAV Networks against Active Eavesdropping: An Elevation Angle-Distance Trade-Off for Secrecy Enhancement‘. Continue reading →

A project for incorporating dead birds into flapping-wing drones might enable new ways of stealthily snooping on wildlife – and possibly spying on people for military purposes. Continue reading →

Mississippi State University (MSU) has once again been tapped to lead a major uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) research, testing and evaluation project on behalf of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Continue reading →