The rotating-mass gyroscope, which lies at the heart of inertial measurement units (IMUs), has served very successfully from the 1930s to the 1970s, guiding astronauts, spacecraft, missiles, and more.

Those tiny gyroscopes—along with accelerometers, they’re the foundation of inertial guidance—keep getting better. The mechanical spinning-wheel and laser-based optical gyro have been supplanted in ...

Aircraft owners are increasingly transitioning from unreliable vacuum/air-pressure driven flight instrument systems to all-electric panels for benefits like weight savings, simplified maintenance, and ...

A shotgun is obviously the more satisfying approach, but researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have found a simpler way to knock drones out of the sky—by targeting ...