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Autonomous Flight unveils six-seat eVTOL tricopter air shuttle

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Fish-inspired robots coordinate movements without any outside control

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Orbital Assembly Building Parts to Eventually Scale to Large Rotating Space Stations

GM Unveils Cadillac Flying Car For Rich People

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Humanity’s labor has been greatly expanded by the use of machines. We must maintain decentralized automation for the future use of labor saving and humanity serving tools, or we will be victims of the Crown’s automatons.

Fish-inspired robots coordinate movements without any outside control

"Robots are often deployed in areas that are inaccessible or dangerous to humans, areas where human intervention might not even be possible," said Florian Berlinger, a Ph.D. Candidate at SEAS and Wyss and first author of the paper. "In these situa

GM Unveils Cadillac Flying Car For Rich People

General Motors stole the show on Tuesday after unveiling the Cadillac Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle and electric shuttle concepts in a virtual presentation at the CES expo, according to PCMag.

Watch a Robot Dog Learn How to Deftly Fend Off a Human

Kick over this robot and it'll quickly right itself--not because someone told it how, but because it taught itself to overcome the embarrassment.

Watch a Robot Dog Learn How to Deftly Fend Off a Human

Kick over this robot and it'll quickly right itself--not because someone told it how, but because it taught itself to overcome the embarrassment.

Do You Love Me?

Our whole crew got together to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year: Happy New Year from all of us at Boston Dynamics.

Engineer demonstrates £500 bionic hand he built using artificial intelligence...

Engineer demonstrates £500 bionic hand he built using artificial intelligence and cheap components after three years of research

Loyal Wingman combat drone completes first high-speed taxi tests

Boeing's Loyal Wingman jet-propelled combat drone has been put through its first high-speed taxi test in preparation for its maiden flight next year.

Boring Company Prufrock Machine Will Start Tunneling in 2021

Boring Revolution indicates that the Boring Company Prufrock tunneling machine should start digging test tunnels in 2021.

Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Builds "Radiation Map" Of Chernobyl Reactor

Spot, the autonomous robot dog, from Boston Dynamics, was equipped with radiation sensors to create a map of the radiation coming out of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to news agency Ukrinform.

XTI reconfigures its TriFan eVTOL as a diesel-hybrid cargo drone

Florida's XTI Aircraft has ben working on its TriFan eVTOL concept for at least five years now, and while a passenger version is still the key focus, the company has now put forward a long-range, autonomous diesel-hybrid cargo variant.

Researchers Develop Robot That Tells Farmers When to Water Crops

A team of researchers from UC Riverside is developing a mobile robotic pressure chamber.

SELCO: Timing Is EVERYTHING When the SHTF

Timing or the importance of perfect timing in SHTF can be a matter of life and death.

Computer Scientists Create Blueprint For Machine Consciousness

Renowned researchers Manuel Blum and Lenore Blum have devoted their entire lives to the study of computer science with a particular focus on consciousness.

Navy To Test Resupply Drones For Warships

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) recently launched a pilot program to assess just how useful delivery drones are for hauling critical cargo to surface ships, read a US Navy press release.

Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Starts New Work On BP Oil Rig

The virus pandemic is accelerating the trend of robots replacing humans in the workplace. One robot that is quickly being adopted by mega-corporations is Boston Dynamics' compact four-legged robot, called Spot.

NawaStitch promises to make carbon composites even lighter and stronger

France's Nawa Technologies is setting up operations in the United States, and bringing its fast, affordable vertically aligned carbon nanotube (VACNT) manufacturing process into a new application: making carbon fiber composites much stronger.

World record drone flights: Hydrogen vs battery vs gasoline-electric

Spanish company Quaternium has destroyed its own record for gasoline-electric drone endurance with a 10-hour...

Instagram influencers of the future: Digitally-created models are earning their developers...

Instagram influencers of the future: Digitally-created models are earning their developers a fortune by promoting fashion brands to their millions of social media followers - even though they're NOT real

NASA's OSIRIS-REx collects sample from surface of asteroid Bennu

In a truly remarkable feat of engineering, NASA's OSIRIS-REx has scooped a sample of soil from the surface of asteroid Bennu, as it hurtles through space some 205 million miles from Earth. The spacecraft successfully touched the asteroid Bennu on T

Autonomous Indoor Serving Robots Set To Invade Restaurants Near You

Before readers know it, restaurants of the future will have their entire front-end automated, nevertheless, the backend where the food is prepped will be operated by robot chefs.

Drone carries human kidney over Las Vegas desert in what could be the future of organ transportation

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article misstated the April 2019 drone flight course and destination, from the Living Legacy Foundation to the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore.

Cops ARREST Worshippers Singing Over COVID Lockdown, Police Will LOSE Support If This

...Continues. This is about control - nothing else...

BlackSky Monitoring Satellites Will Soon Have 50cm Resolution

BlackSky is preparing for the next generation of its geospatial intelligence constellation.

Amazing footage shows giant 60-foot Japanese Transformer-like robot walking,--

--pointing to the sky and 'taking the knee' during a test in Yokohama

JAXA teams with GITAI for world-first private sector space robotics demo

Space robotics startup GITAI and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are teaming up to produce the world's first robotics demonstration in space by a private company.

Elon Musk on Tesla Roadrunner Cell Leak: "It Will Be Very Insane"

After Electrek featured a massive battery cell that was supposedly from Tesla's Roadrunner line, Teslarati covered it in detail and Elon Musk replied saying, "It will be very insane."

VR-controlled robot shelf-stacker starts shift in Japanese stores

Robots are an increasingly common sight in stores, helping customers carry their shopping, keeping track of stock and mapping the layout.

Robot can detect if people are wearing masks

A human-like robot called Pepper can now detect whether people are wearing a mask to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

The Air Force Just Tested "Robot Dogs" For Use In Base Security

The quadrupedal robots secured the perimeter of a base during a recent test of the USAF's Advanced Battle Management System.

Tesla Battery Day Is Coming: Solid Predictions Of What To Expect

It seems Tesla fans are eager to forecast the future. Only good things can come from Battery Day, right?

Electronic SKIN that 'feels' pain in the same way as human skin could pave the way -

-for better prosthetics, smarter robotics and non-invasive skin graft alternatives

Silicon "sandwiches" make for lightweight, high-capacity batteries

The pursuit of better batteries means the exploration of alternative materials, and one that scientists see a lot of promise in is silicon.

Robot Boats Leave Autonomous Cars in Their Wake

Driverless ships don't have to worry about crowded roads. And they don't need bunks--or toilets.

US Increases Funding for AI and Quantum Information Science

The White House has announced additional funding for Artificial Intelligence and Quantum computing research.

Tesla Battery Partner Jeff Dahn Approaches Incredible New Battery Cell

The new battery cell chemistry would have game-changing density and an extended life span.

Is Tesla's Obsession With Manufacturing Really Starting To Pay Off?

The auto trade isn't just about designing and selling cars--far from it.

Mars as you've never seen it before: Incredible images captured from the Martian surface...

Images of Mars captured by various NASA rovers as they trundle along the surface of the Red Planet have been remastered and 'upscaled' by a team of space fans.

"This Stock Market Will Eat You Soon Enough"

Captain George Pollard Jr. was hungry. Actually, he was starving. He'd been drifting aboard a small whaleboat with some of his crew in the South Pacific for over two months.

Carbon fiber exoskeleton is the latest to boost worker safety

More and more, workplaces are using assistive exoskeletons to protect their employees from injury. One of the newest, the 4th-generation version of German Bionic's Cray X, features a lightweight carbon fiber frame.

This video of Boston Dynamics' creepy humanoid robot doing parkour ...

This video of Boston Dynamics' creepy humanoid robot doing parkour is equal parts amazing and terrifying

Hadrian X bricklaying robot puts up its first walls

We've been following the progress of the Hadrian X bricklaying robot since it first started flexing its giant telescopic arm back in 2015, and have seen the team behind it make a few notable improvements since.

Ex-Google robotics director reaches high with Stretch helper bot

For the last three years, a team led by Google's former Director of Robotics, Dr. Aaron Edsinger, has been secretly working on an assistive robot. Hello Robot has now emerged from stealth to reveal its first fruit, the Stretch Research Edition.

Hollywood Is Banking That a Robot Named Erica Can Be the Next Movie Star

She can't get sick or be late to the set, and her hair and makeup needs are minimal: Her name is Erica, and Hollywood is hoping that a sophisticated robot can be its next big star.

'Robot dog named Zeus' is seen inspecting SpaceX's rocket test site in Texas...

'Robot dog named Zeus' is seen inspecting SpaceX's rocket test site in Texas after a Starship tank exploded during a cryogenic pressure test

Low-cost solar-to-hydrogen cell achieves breakthrough 17.6% efficiency

Hydrogen's impressive energy density offers some compelling advantages that could see it make a huge difference in the electric aviation and eVTOL sectors, as well as in renewable energy, where it's a lightweight and transportable

Salto the jumping robot can now execute stylish precision landings

This cute, one-legged hopping robot out of UC Berkeley's Biomimetics lab has been capable of doing sweet parkour-style double-jumps off walls since 2016.

Tesla supplier develops battery that will last for 16 years and a MILLION miles...

Tesla supplier develops battery that will last for 16 years and a MILLION miles in breakthrough that could transform electric vehicle market

Nuro's autonomous vehicles to deliver CVS prescriptions in Texas

Self-driving startup Nuro is well-positioned to pursue its ambitions of autonomous delivery, having received a first-of-its-kind exemption from the US Department of Transport back in February.

ARTIFICIAL EYE THAT 'SEES' LIKE A HUMAN COULD TRANSFORM ROBOTICS

A human user of the bionic eye would gain night vision capabilities, researchers say

Remotely operated Spot robot herds sheep in New Zealand

Boston Dynamics' dog-like Spot robot can now be remotely controlled from anywhere in the world thanks to a partnership with cloud-based software platform Rocos.
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