WindBorne Systems has confirmed that one of its weather balloons may have collided with United Flight 1093, cracking the ...

Near Nagoya, startup AirKamuy is building affordable cardboard “origami drones” as Japan accelerates defense innovation under rising regional threats. Backed by the Ministry of Defense, these low-cost ...

Abstract: Soft robotic arms are actively being researched due to their high potential, but they still face challenges in terms of controllability due to their infinite degrees of freedom (DOFs).

Abstract: In this letter, a novel cable-driven soft origami multimodal actuator is proposed. The proposed actuator comprises multiple origamis based on the Yoshimura pattern. The origami-based ...

Love it or hate it, this weekend, balloons will start to fill the skies of Albuquerque. But a conservation group and a group of parody purveyors are hoping to draw some eyes with a series of satirical ...

A Sambalpur shopkeeper was arrested for killing a balloon seller near a Durga Puja pandal after an argument over vending space escalated. The seller, Guddu Rajak, returned the next day with a knife, ...

Up to 25 smuggling balloons from Belarus forced a temporary shutdown of Vilnius Airport. Authorities seized 18,000 packs of contraband cigarettes from recovered balloons. The breach heightened Baltic ...

Balloons carrying thousands of packs of cigarettes have disrupted flights in Lithuania, as Vilnius Airport was forced to close for hours when dozens of them floated into the country's airspace. The ...

Up to 25 small hot-air balloons, some carrying smuggled cigarettes, forced Vilnius Airport to shut down late on Saturday. The balloons entered Lithuanian airspace, delaying 30 flights and affecting ...

Up to 25 small hot air balloons, some of them confirmed to be carrying smuggled cigarettes, entered Lithuanian airspace and forced the shutdown of Vilnius Airport, delaying flights for hours, ...