cnet.com — Moths aren't known as beasts of burden, but a new super lightweight sensor they can carry on their backs might change that. A team of researchers at the University of Washington developed a sensor that weighs 98 milligrams (one tenth the weight of a jellybean) and can survive a six-story fall. The s…

spectrum.ieee.org — At IROS last year, Caltech and JPL presented a prototype for a ballistically launched quadrotor—once folded up into a sort of football shape with fins, the drone is stuffed into a tube and then fired straight up with a blast of compressed CO2, at which point it unfolds itself, stabilizes, and then f…