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As Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Get Smarter, Can You Trust the Flight Controller?

Artificial intelligence is transforming what unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other autonomous systems can do. Most of the attention goes to the impressive p [...]
Published by : Technology Innovation Institute

When the Satellites Go Quiet, Something Else Has to Fly the Aircraft

Earlier this year, drivers across the UAE opened their navigation apps and found themselves placed on the wrong street. Delivery riders watched their location j [...]
Published by : Eloy Roura

Small Radio, Big Range: The Video Data Link Streaming Live Video Across 30 Kilometres of Desert

By Dr. Jennifer Simonjan, Senior Director, Technology Innovation InstituteOne thing I’ve learned after years of working in robotics is this: even the most advan [...]
Published by : Dr. Jennifer Simonjan

Biochar as a Carbon-Negative Material: Giving Industrial Waste New Life

How TII is transforming recycled plastic and industrial wood waste into carbon-negative polymer compositesAbstractGlobal plastic production exceeded 400 million [...]
Published by : Technology Innovation Institute

Role of Agentic Platforms in Cybersecurity and Vulnerability Management

As cyber threats continue to evolve, it is becoming clear that security outcomes depend on much more than intelligence alone. Increasingly, the focus is shiftin [...]
Published by : Technology Innovation Institute

Designing the Sky: How TII is Building the Invisible Infrastructure for Air Taxis

Imagine hailing a taxi in Abu Dhabi and, instead of sitting in traffic, lifting off and flying above the city on your way to Dubai. It might sound futuristic, b [...]
Published by : Dr. Jennifer Simonjan
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Programmable Quantum Whirlpools: How TII Scientists Are Learning to Control the Vortices at the Heart of Quantum Matter

Watch water spiral down a bathroom drain and you are looking at one of the most stubborn puzzles in physics. Vortices, the swirling structures behind everything [...]
Published by : Technology Innovation Institute

Swarm Autonomy at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

Executive SummaryAs robots become more sophisticated and capable, they can take more actions autonomously, with less need for human supervision. Such robots can [...]
Published by : Technology Innovation Institute

So Many Signals

This year’s UN World Environment Day puts climate action front and center and frames it around signals: the ones the Earth is sending us, and the ones we send b [...]
Published by : Professor Philip Hart
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