The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) has reached a groundbreaking milestone in humanoid robotics by demonstrating the first flight of iRonCub3, the world’s first jet-powered flying humanoid robot specifically designed to operate in real-world environments. The research team studied the complex aerodynamics of the artificial body and developed an advanced control model for systems composed of several interconnected parts. The overall work on iRonCub3, including real flight tests, took about two years. In the latest experiments, the robot was able to lift off the floor by approximately 50 cm while maintaining its stability. The achievement paves the way for a new generation of flying robots capable of operating in complex environments while maintaining a human-like structure. The aerodynamics and control studies have been described in a paper published today in Nature Communications Engineering, an open access journal from the Nature Portfolio.

A research group led by Professor SUZUKI Hiroaki from Faculty of Science and Engineering at Chuo University, graduate students YONEYAMA Ryotaro (at the time), MORIKAWA Naoya, and USHIYAMA Ryota (at the time), Research Fellow TSUGANE Mamiko, Technical Assistant SATO Reiko (at the time), and Special Appointed Assistant Professor MARUYAMA Tomoya from Research Center for Autonomous Systems Materialogy (ASMat), Institute of Integrated Research (IIR), Institute of Science Tokyo, along with Professor TAKINOUE Masahiro from Department of Computer Science, Institute of Science Tokyo, has developed a technology for mass-producing uniform artificial cells (lipid bilayer vesicles) with artificial model nuclei using microfluidic devices with high reproducibility. They also demonstrated that protein synthesis from this model nuclei was possible.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Electronics Engineer Christian Jones, Ph.D., received an award for his dissertation entitled “Robust and Efficient Structure-Based Radar Receive Processing” during the 2025 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Radar Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 7.

Tsinghua University Press (TUP) and American Institute of Mathematical Sciences Press (AIMS) have forged a new collaboration to bring 12 of AIMS's esteemed STM journals to SciOpen.

A research team at Beihang University, led by Professor Jianghao Wu, has achieved a significant breakthrough in the design of propulsion systems for future low-altitude transport, particularly electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Their pioneering work, recently published in the Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, introduces a novel analytical framework for ducted propellers, promising to make these advanced flying vehicles smaller, lighter, and more powerful. This research offers vital support for the burgeoning field of advanced air mobility, aiming to alleviate urban traffic congestion and utilize low-altitude airspace.

In the history of aircraft development, maneuverability has always been an important consideration in the design concept of aircraft. The requirements for aerodynamic characteristics are reflected in high lift-to-drag ratio, high lift coefficient, torque stability and so on. The occurrence of dynamic stall will lead to a sharp drop in lift and a rapid rise in drag, resulting in torque oscillation, which seriously restricts the improvement of aircraft performance, and even leads to aircraft crash in severe cases. The traditional passive flow control cannot cope with the real-time and changeable flow field environment, and the emergence of jet control provides a new way to solve the problem of dynamic stall. Although the research of single jet technology has been relatively sufficient, there are few comparative studies on steady jet and synthetic jet, and there is also a lack of related research on dual synthetic jets. Therefore, it is imperative to fill this research gap.