Purdue has created part of a new cubesat thruster which electromagnetically accelerates plasma to produce thrust. They have successfully tested the ignition system for more than 1.5 million pulses. This is a giant leap for extending the lifetime of e

Autopilot in California - just a week after the same thing happened in Vegas

Embark, Electrolux, and Ryder have partnered in a driverless truck endeavor on a 650-mile I-10 route...

iRobot, the company known for making the Roomba, some of the best robotic vacuum cleaners out there, is looking to jump into the lawn care game with the announcement of Terra. Much like the company's selection of indoor cleaners, this device will a

What if the all the ships that navigated our vast oceans could navigate, chart a course, and think for themselves--without any human input?

Prepare for Johnny 5 Amazon Scout. On Wednesday, Amazon.com said its autonomous delivery robot, Amazon Scout, will begin delivering packages to a neighborhood in Snohomish County, Washington. The device, a prototype for a robotic delivery service so

Robots are invading grocery stores throughout America. "Marty" is a limited-purpose robot but will still replace a number of entry-level jobs that are so important for teenagers just entering the workforce. ? TN Editor

The Future is Served. Thanks to the motion-capture system the robotic kitchen can now precisely replicate the actions of a master chef thereby creating a variety of delicious dishes, cooked to world-class standards, for the domestic kitchen and for o

Here are 10 of the most dynamic and intelligent robots ever built.

I took the best video from an official source, then corrected it for real time, interpolated frames to smooth it using butterflow. Then using the high quality video I try to map through all the features we see to provide an idea of how large the crat

Packs of robot DOGS could soon ride around in driverless vans and be deployed to drop packages at your doorstep

The Clean Energy Research Foundation has discovered a method of manufacturing the worlds strongest and toughest materials.

Existing pet-tracking devices tend to fall into one of two categories: Bluetooth and GPS.

The list of banned and censored YouTube channels is rapidly increasing, as Google-owned YouTube has been carrying out a censorship blitz to strike many long-standing, hugely popular channels from its platform.

Deliveries from an Arizona grocery store will soon be arriving with no one behind the wheel. A fully autonomous vehicle is about to pilot public roads Tuesday with no back up driver, though it will be monitored by humans in another automobile.

Ice-skating Robot Also Swims

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

Solving car charging problems

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