Over the last decade, the use of autonomous drone systems for surveying, search and rescue, or last-mile delivery has increased exponentially. With the rise of these applications comes the need for highly robust, safety-critical algorithms which can operate drones in complex and uncertain environments. Additionally, flying fast enables drones to cover more ground which in turn increases productivity and further strengthens their use case. One proxy for developing algorithms used in high-speed navigation is the task of autonomous drone racing, where researchers program drones to fly through a sequence of gates and avoid obstacles as quickly as possible using onboard sensors and limited computational power. Speeds and accelerations exceed over 80 kph and 4 g respectively, raising significant challenges across perception, planning, control, and state estimation. To achieve maximum performance, systems require real-time algorithms that are robust to motion blur, high dynamic range, model uncertainties, aerodynamic disturbances, and often unpredictable opponents. This survey covers the progression of autonomous drone racing across model-based and learning-based approaches. We provide an overview of the field, its evolution over the years, and conclude with the biggest challenges and open questions to be faced in the future.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is proving to be as much a security tool as an economic one in the Indo-Pacific, with the US and China attempting to expand their influence in the region. Because of AI's increasing role in military applications, the Indo-Pacific, rather than Silicon Valley, is now fast emerging as the principal AI market in the world. A new report from "Research and Markets" predicts that the radar simulator market alone in the Indo-Pacific will boom from $326.2 million in 2022 to $470.5 million by 2028 for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.3%. "Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) developed by various enterprises have modern capabilities and have extended their reach and operating boundaries," the report states, adding, "There has been a surge in the development of laser-guided missiles with higher accuracy to hit the locked target. To combat this threat in the future, there would be a rise in the development of radars and radar simulators to train operators to combat the rising modern warfare systems."

Drone advances in Ukraine have accelerated a long-anticipated technology trend that could soon bring the world's first fully autonomous fighting robots to the battlefield, inaugurating a new age of warfare. The longer the war lasts, the more likely it becomes that drones will be used to identify, select and attack targets without help from humans, according to military analysts, combatants and artificial intelligence researchers. That would mark a revolution in military technology as profound as the introduction of the machine gun. Ukraine already has semi-autonomous attack drones and counter-drone weapons endowed with AI. Russia also claims to possess AI weaponry, though the claims are unproven.

Metaverse is expected to create a virtual world closely connected with reality to provide users with immersive experience with the support of 5G high data rate communication technique. A huge amount of data in physical world needs to be synchronized to the virtual world to provide immersive experience for users, and there will be higher requirements on coverage to include more users into Metaverse. However, 5G signal suffers severe attenuation, which makes it more expensive to maintain the same coverage. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a promising candidate technique for future implementation of Metaverse as a low-cost and high-mobility platform for communication devices. In this paper, we propose a proximal policy optimization (PPO) based double-agent cooperative reinforcement learning method for channel allocation and trajectory control of UAV to collect and synchronize data from the physical world to the virtual world, and expand the coverage of Metaverse services economically. Simulation results show that our proposed method is able to achieve better performance compared to the benchmark approaches.

Former Assistant Secretary of State Robert Charles joined'Fox & Friends First' to discuss the surge of COVID cases in China and Kim Jong Un vowing to bolster North Korea's nuclear weapons. Chinese drones were operating near Japan this week, prompting Japanese defense officials to dispatch aircraft and naval ships to monitor the situation, according to media reports. The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been transiting the Miyako Strait from the East China Sea into the Pacific and returning the same way, USNI News reported. The Miyako Strait is a waterway between Miyako Island and Okinawa. Meanwhile, Chinese warships were also seen in the East China Sea after two weeks near the Philippines.

Automated delivery robots remotely monitored by humans will be able to hit Japanese public roads from April under the revised road traffic law, raising hopes that they will be much-needed "manpower" in the logistics industry. Trials for deliveries of food and daily necessities by robots have been conducted in residential and business districts. A test of the DeliRo unmanned delivery robot took place in the Tsukishima district of Tokyo's Chuo Ward last month. The robot moved at a speed close to the pace of an adult's brisk walk on a major street to carry a hamburger from a store to an office located about 500 meters away. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software.

Russia is planning a protracted campaign of aerial bombardments and attacks using Iranian-made drones in a bid to "exhaust" Ukraine into submission, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In his nightly address to the nation on Monday, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine had received intelligence that Russia would increase its campaign of drone raids on the country. "We have information that Russia is planning a long-term attack using Shahed drones," Zelenskyy said. "It is probably banking on exhaustion. Exhausting our people, our anti-aircraft defences, our energy," he said.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Russia continued its assault on Ukraine's infrastructure in Kyiv with a swarm of explosive drones throughout Monday morning. Russia's attacks on Kyiv have been relentless since New Year's Eve. Russia followed up its holiday missile attack with drones that flew into the city just after midnight on Monday morning.

Drones are already shaping the face of our cities – used for building planning, heritage, construction and safety enhancement. But, as studies by the UK's Department of Transport have found, swathes of the public have a limited understanding of how drones might be practically applied. It's crucial that the ways drones are affecting our future are understood by the majority of people. As experts in design futures and mobility, we hope this short overview of five ways drones will affect building design offers some knowledge of how things are likely to change. Infographic showcasing other ways drones will influence future building design.

Several waves of Russian drones targeted critical infrastructure in Ukraine's capital and surrounding areas, officials said, as Moscow extended its constant bombardment into a second day in 2023. An explosion hit Kyiv's Desnianskiy district and drone debris hit a road in the district, in the capital's northeast, damaging a building next to it, Ukrainian officials reported early on Monday. As a result of overnight strikes on Kyiv, energy infrastructure facilities were damaged, causing power and heating outages, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Ukraine's air defence systems destroyed 20 aerial objects above Kyiv early on Monday, its military said, after air raid sirens wailed for more than four hours. Earlier, one person was wounded by debris from a drone destroyed over the city.