Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. BANGKOK (AP) -- Myanmar's main pro-democracy resistance group said Thursday its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military headquarters in the capital, Naypyitaw, but the country's ruling military said it destroyed or seized more than a dozen drones used in the attacks. The opposition National Unity Government's "Defense Ministry" said in a statement that special units of the People's Defense Force used drones to attack the targets simultaneously. The group, known by the acronym NUG, calls itself the country's legitimate government, while the People's Defense Force is made up of many local resistance groups with a good deal of independence.

Myanmar's main pro-democracy opposition group says its armed wing has launched drone attacks on an airport and a military headquarters in the capital, Naypyidaw, but the military government says it has destroyed or seized more than a dozen drones used in the attacks. Military-run Myawaddy TV reported on Thursday that 13 fixed-wing drones were shot down over the capital of military-ruled Myanmar in a foiled attack with no casualties or damage to property. It said the foiled attack by "terrorists" sought to destroy important locations in Naypyidaw. Myawaddy did not mention what the targets were but broadcast an image showing nine small drones, several of which were damaged. Of the 13 drones, four carried explosives, the report said.

The junta has also lost large areas of territory to insurgents along the Bangladesh and Indian borders.

Russian attacks on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, have killed at least four people and injured 12, officials in the border region have said. Shahed drones struck two residential buildings in the city near the Russian border that has frequently been targeted during more than two years of war. Three rescue workers were killed overnight when Russia struck a multi-storey building twice in quick succession in a "densely populated district of Kharkiv", Igor Terekhov, the mayor of the eastern city, wrote on the Telegram app on Thursday. One person was killed in a drone attack on another building, he said. Ukraine's General Staff said 11 of 20 drones were shot down.

This work presents the design of Stickbug, a six-armed, multi-agent, precision pollination robot that combines the accuracy of single-agent systems with swarm parallelization in greenhouses. Precision pollination robots have often been proposed to offset the effects of a decreasing population of natural pollinators, but they frequently lack the required parallelization and scalability. Stickbug achieves this by allowing each arm and drive base to act as an individual agent, significantly reducing planning complexity. Stickbug uses a compact holonomic Kiwi drive to navigate narrow greenhouse rows, a tall mast to support multiple manipulators and reach plant heights, a detection model and classifier to identify Bramble flowers, and a felt-tipped end-effector for contact-based pollination. Initial experimental validation demonstrates that Stickbug can attempt over 1.5 pollinations per minute with a 50% success rate. Additionally, a Bramble flower perception dataset was created and is publicly available alongside Stickbug's software and design files.

Urban air mobility is an innovative mode of transportation in which electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles operate between nodes called vertiports. We outline a self-organized vertiport arrival system based on deep reinforcement learning. The airspace around the vertiport is assumed to be circular, and the vehicles can freely operate inside. Each aircraft is considered an individual agent and follows a shared policy, resulting in decentralized actions that are based on local information. We investigate the development of the reinforcement learning policy during training and illustrate how the algorithm moves from suboptimal local holding patterns to a safe and efficient final policy. The latter is validated in simulation-based scenarios and also deployed on small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles to showcase its real-world usability.

As robotic systems such as autonomous cars and delivery drones assume greater roles and responsibilities within society, the likelihood and impact of catastrophic software failure within those systems is increased.To aid researchers in the development of new methods to measure and assure the safety and quality of robotics software, we systematically curated a dataset of 221 bugs across 7 popular and diverse software systems implemented via the Robot Operating System (ROS). We produce historically accurate recreations of each of the 221 defective software versions in the form of Docker images, and use a grounded theory approach to examine and categorize their corresponding faults, failures, and fixes. Finally, we reflect on the implications of our findings and outline future research directions for the community.

Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., and Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson react to military leaders testifying during House hearing on President Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal on'Hannity.' President Biden's condemnation of the Israeli airstrike that killed seven food aid workers in Gaza earlier this week isn't sitting well with some critics, who called the president's reaction "obvious hypocrisy." Biden responded after the World Central Kitchen (WCK) nonprofit, founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres, announced Tuesday that it was pausing all its operations in Gaza after seven of its food aid workers – including a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen -- were killed by an "unforgivable" Israeli airstrike. "I am outraged and heartbroken by the deaths of seven humanitarian workers from World Central Kitchen, including one American, in Gaza yesterday," Biden wrote in a statement. "They were providing food to hungry civilians in the middle of a war. They were brave and selfless. Their deaths are a tragedy."

Current and former U.S. officials expressed fears on Tuesday that Israel's airstrikes on an Iranian embassy compound in Syria could escalate hostilities in the region, and prompt retaliatory strikes against Israel and its American ally. The officials said the attack on Monday, which killed three generals in Iran's Quds Force and four other officers, had dealt a serious blow to the force, the external military and intelligence service of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Ralph Goff, a former senior C.I.A. official who served in the Middle East, called Israel's strike "incredibly reckless." "It will only result in escalation by Iran and its proxies, which is very dangerous" to American troops in the region who could be targeted in retaliatory strikes by Tehran's proxies, Mr. Goff said. Indeed, after the Israeli strike in Damascus, Syria's capital, on Monday, American troops based in southeastern Syria knocked down an attack drone, a Defense Department official said.

Video captures the moment and aftermath of what appears to be a drone, allegedly of Ukrainian origin, striking Russian drone production facility. Russian officials claimed that only a worker's dormitory was hit. A Ukrainian "plane-type UAV" on Tuesday struck a Russian weapons plant that allegedly assembled drones, causing an incredible fireball after impact. "This morning, the republic's industrial enterprises in Yelabuga and Nizhnekamsk were attacked by drones," Rustam Minnikhanov, the leader of Russia's autonomous Republic of Tatarstan, said in a post on his Telegram channel. "There is no serious damage, the technological process of the enterprises was not disrupted," Minnikhanov added.