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Fires in high-rises can be particularly deadly. With that in mind, researchers have created the flying, wall-climbing, fire-resistant FAROS quadcopter. It's designed to ascertain the source of a fire as soon as possible, along with the locations of people trapped within the building.

​There's no denying that good-quality bike locks tend to be heavy, plus they're often awkward to carry. While we have seen efforts to make them lighter and less obtrusive, GreyNut has gone a step farther – its Bindio system simply places the lock at a parking spot at the cyclist's destination.​

Audi is getting its production plant in Brussels ready to produce the first purely electric sport utility vehicle in the brand’s lineup. A rotation of line production for other models will make way for the Audi e-tron SUV, including the battery-electric vehicle’s batteries.

A little over a year ago, Pavegen's kinetic energy-harvesting tiles were installed at a soccer pitch in Rio. The movement of players across the tiles is used to generate electricity and power the pitch's floodlights. Now, a second such pitch has been created in Lagos, Nigeria.

A new probabilistic artificial intelligence algorithm is displaying the remarkable ability to learn complex visual concepts in a single shot and manipulate them in ways that are indistinguishable from humans.

Duchenne muscular dystrophy causes the victim's muscles to shrink throughout their lifetime, often to the point that the arms and legs can't be used at all. That's why the A-Gear project is designing two arm-worn exoskeletons, intended to help Duchenne patients retain the use of their arms.

NASA has released a composite image of the star cluster Trumpler 14, compiled from data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope from 2005 - 2006. The cluster is located 8,000 light-years from Earth in the Carina nebula.

A research team from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has been working to create a more delicate solution for handling objects on the seabed, designing, building and testing a soft gripper solution.

A viewing pod ten times the size of those on the London Eye has been completed for what is claimed will be the world's tallest moving observation attraction. The Brighton i360 is a 162-m (531-ft) tower with a single pod that will accommodate 200 people.

There are already plenty of apps that let people estimate how many calories are in the foods they're eating, but they have limitations. That's where NutriRay3D comes in. It's a smartphone device/app combo, that uses lasers to ascertain how many calories are sitting on the plate.

BulletSafe is becoming a bigger player in the casual bulletproof clothing market.​ In December 2014, it launched a Kickstarter for what it calls the "world's first bulletproof baseball cap." Just over a year later, it's turning its attention to a bulletproof T-shirt.

What goes up must come down, but how it comes down can have a big impact on where and how it used. In what is claimed as world first, researchers have gently landed a winged UAV on top of a car traveling at 75 km/h.