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Tesla's self-driving autopilot is already testing driving with traffic lights, stop signs and roundabouts. Your Tesla will soon be able to go from your garage at home to parking at work with no driver input at all.

Elon Reeve Musk is a technology entrepreneur and investor. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship and is the founder, CEO, and lead designer of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; co-founder and CEO of Neura

DeepMind's artificial intelligence programme AlphaZero is now showing signs of human-like intuition and creativity, in what developers have hailed as 'turning point' in history.

China is getting set to launch the first-ever surface mission to the moon's far side.

Robot cars are now officially a real business. Waymo on Wednesday launched a commercial robot ride-hailing service in Arizona called Waymo One.

Modern computers are truly amazing, continuing to improve as the years go by. One of the many reasons why this has happened is due to better processing power. Every 18 months or so, the number of transistors that can be placed onto the silicon chips

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Robots are coming to a Walmart Inc. near you, and not just as a gimmick. The world's largest retailer is rolling out 360 autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in some of its stores in the U.S. by the end of the January, it said in a joint statement wi

Elon Musk's Gigafactory is arguably the most important thing that Tesla makes. The 1.9 million-square-foot factory in Sparks, Nevada, is only 30 percent complete, but it's already on track to make 60 percent of the world's lithium ion batteries

It's easy to take web access for granted, but in many regions getting online isn't as simple as just opening up a browser window.

NASA's InSight mission successfully landed on Elysium Planitia, Mars, on 26 November 2018, at around 19:54 UTC (12:54 PST, 15:54 EST). The InSight lander, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a

Thin nanotube films effectively stop dendrites that grow naturally from unprotected lithium metal anodes in batteries.

Japanese researchers at the Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) research center have developed a prototype humanoid robot, the HRP-5P, designed to autonomously perform heavy labor in hazardous environments.

HRP-5P succeeded in handling heavy materials without human support.

Extreme fast charging is promised.

Irish authorities have begun investigating the sighting of a UFO (unidentified flying object) off the coast after a British Airways pilot contacted Shannon air traffic control.

As if we didn't already have enough to worry about when it comes to artificially intelligent machines being able to perform many tasks faster and better than humans can, potentially stealing our jobs in the future and presenting what some technolog

TN covers a lot of stories from China because it is a full-blown Technocracy, intent on radical social engineering of all society on earth. Purposely developing and manufacturing killer robots guarantees that WWIII present an existential threat to ma

SpaceX has US Federal Communications Committee (FCC) approval to build a constellation of 4,425 low Earth orbit communication satellites.

Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX will make a mini-Big Falcon Spaceship upper stage for the Falcon 9.

Although the mere thought of a swarm of microrobots burrowing into an eyeball is enough to make some people squirm, scientists believe tiny, controllable delivery vehicles could be the future of eye medicine.

IN a world first, a Chinese state news agency has created a virtual newsreader that works 24/7 and says whatever it is told to.

Everyone, meet Furhat. Furhat is a social robot that communicates with us humans as we do with each other - by speaking, listening, showing emotions and maintaining eye contact.

Engineers at Oregon State University are creating the next generation of bipedal robots.

The entire trillion dollar grocery industry is transforming before your eyes as Amazon sparks a robot war with other grocery store enterprises. Stores will be largely free of cashiers, pickers and stockers, putting millions of people out of work. Tec

Army scientists are trying to figure out the best way to design hard exoskeletons to fit "fleshy" human bodies so they're comfortable enough to wear in combat.

Electric autonomous taxis are being tested in Guangzhou.

How does Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot fare in tough, real-world scenarios?

US Special Operations have built prototypes of the TALOS exoskeleton. It is designed to shield commandos from gunfire when they are in heavy urban combat.

Telescopes could not get an image of the interstellar asteroid Oumuamua. Recent research shows that the asteroid had an acceleration.

The U.S. military is creating the Space Force as a sixth branch. It will not be about space marines but acquiring new space weapons and other systems for space domination.

Elon Musk and the Boring Company has completed most of phase 1 of a 2.7-mile proof-of-process tunnel through Los Angeles.

According to a draft paper written by networking researcher and professor Mark Handley, SpaceX's Starlink internet satellite constellation has the potential to significantly disrupt the global networking economy and infrastructure and do so with as

Icarus Interstellar Spaceship designer Adam Crowl has provided more analysis of the potential of the 80 Gigapascal carbon nanotube bundle material.

At a recent technology show in Tokyo, a large robot arm reached into a full-sized mockup of a shipping container and began unloading boxes from it.

The electronics inside consumer gadgets are often miniaturized versions of bigger components – like phone cameras, for instance – and that applies to the gyroscopes used to help a device orientate itself in 3D space.

That Australia's Great Barrier Reef is in serious trouble is no longer subject to debate, but the best way to deal with the problem very much is.

The new commander of AMC (Air Mobility Command), Gen. Maryanne Miller, said they have talked to SpaceX about transporting global cargo.

China has carbon nanotube bundles in the lab that are 20 times stronger than kevlar.

A team of engineers at MIT have developed a novel method to mass-produce tiny robots, no bigger than a cell, quickly, easily and accurately with little to no external stimulus.

What is graphene? What is it used for? The most amazing thing about this semi-metal of the future is the fact that you can produce it yourself in your living room!

Carbon fiber as we know it is one of the most impressive materials in our toolkit.

A FILM director has lifted the lid on the responses he received after uploading a sex robot to Tinder.

Japan suffers a population problem as its older citizens age, and the answer is robots: big ones, little ones, ugly ones, sexy ones, functional ones, etc. Robots are showing up in just about every industry and application imaginable. ? TN Editor

We're a step closer to having high-altitude, long-endurance, autonomous aircraft soaring through the skies. UAVOS has now announced that a prototype of the company's High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS) ApusDuo aircraft has completed the first stage

Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation: How do you know whether a quantum computer has done anything quantum at all?

High energy density sodium ion batteries using Cobalt oxide plating are providing better performance than lithium ion batteries.

This technology may someday power spacecraft, satellites, high-flying drones, and pacemakers.