China's new breakthrough in magnetic detection technology could boost the country's naval warfare capabilities.

Those sensors are finicky and a few problems during testing prompted him to look at a redundant system. Right now he’s experimenting with adding an optical mouse sensor to the autonomous vehicle.

The FLAPsense sensor system has to be integrated into the proprotor assembly and will be co-rotating with the rotor. It will be based on a highly accurate optical sensing method ... especially if the ...