When I did that roof back in the mid 1970s, roofing nail guns were just a glimmer in the eye of modern tool company engineers. Twenty years earlier, the first powered nail gun was invented, but it ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Engineers demonstrated that the drone can autonomously position a nail gun on a nailing point, place the nail, and then move on to ...

A nail gun may be a powerful piece of machinery, but that doesn't mean it's only intended for industrial purposes. Smaller, more focused nail guns are ideal for small-scale D.I.Y. projects and ...

In terms of roofing, Milwaukee's Fastback Folding Utility Knife will be a good tool for cutting roof felt paper and shingles. This particular brand of utility knife has a 4.7 out of five rating ...

Once you put aside any thoughts of that horrific nail-gun death scene in "Final Destination 3," the roofing drone — described in a paper published to the pre-print server arXis — is pretty clever.

Graduate engineering students at the University of Michigan have developed a flying drone, an octocopter, that can autonomously nail down shingles on a roof. This aerial vehicle is autonomous, so ...

That’s why the research team strapped a professional-grade nail gun to an octocopter. It’s capable of autonomously flying the nailer to the roof of a home, and then automatically securing ...