SiFly Q12 Drone Guinness World Record Longest Flight
A small group of people showed up on a sunny morning at Amaral Ranches in California’s Salinas Valley to see something amazing. SiFly, a young American drone company, sent its Q12 drone into the air on July 26, 2025 for a flight that would break records. With a 3 hour, 11 minute, 53 second flight time, the Q12 set a Guinness World Record for the longest flight by an electric drone between 5-20kg.

Smartlets Microrobotics Fingertip Robots
A dozen robots, each smaller than a grain of sand, sit on your fingertip. These are smartlets, tiny marvels from Chemnitz University of Technology that pack a lot of tech into their millimeter sized bodies. Developed by a team led by Prof. Oliver G. Schmidt, these water robots move, sense and talk to each other in water, and could one day monitor lakes or swim through our bodies for medical diagnostics.