A technological breakthrough would give the country an edge in battery manufacturing

Once a sleepy farming region, Silicon Valley is now the hub of a global industry that is transforming the economy, shaping our political discourse, and changing the very nature of our society. So what happened? How did this remarkable change take pla

ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence, being designed to survey the smallest asteroid ever explored, is really three spacecraft in one. The main mothership will carry two briefcase-sized CubeSats, which will touch down on the target body. A French

Thick electrodes and solvent-free electrode manufacturing process are likely the next big step in battery tech.

Part of the first pre-defined route between a logistics center and a port terminal is a public road.

-in the middle of rush hour traffic as other drivers desperately attempt to wake him by honking their horns

Engineer Reuben Brewer and SRI International, a nonprofit scientific research institute based in California, developed a police robot for traffic stops. This new robot is expected to act as a buffer between the officer and motorist during an encounte

The mention of drones immediately conjures images quadcopters hovering in the sky above us. But what if there was a similar device that could allow us to explore underwater, rather than the skies?

A couple of months ago, we reported that Walmart was beginning to use robots to carry out mundane tasks like mopping its floors and tracking inventory.

A new photonic chip could run optical neural networks 10 million times more efficiently than conventional chips.

A four-year competition to help unravel the mysteries of the deep sea has drawn to a close, with the international team behind a new kind of unmanned surface vessel taking top honors.

Technology Is Becoming Indistinguishable From Reality

Tesla already started accepting reservations on the Model 3 that will be produced at the Gigafactory 3

MIT has developed an inexpensive sensor glove designed to enable artificial intelligence to figure out how humans identify objects by touch.

A new electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) air taxi company came out of stealth mode today, using a hydrogen fuel cell powertrain that neatly sidesteps the energy density issue that's holding back battery-powered aircraft.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Tesla and EV batteries right here.

A startup in China will be the first company in the world to begin mass-producing self-driving delivery vehicles for some of the country's biggest commerce giants.

Several years ago, California-based Willow Garage introduced a two-armed wheeled robot known as the PR2. It was designed for use in robotics research, but unfortunately the company has since gone out of business. Quebec-based Kinova Robotics has step

No matter how good a material is at conducting electricity, there's usually some resistance – unless you use superconductive materials.

Autonomous machine expected to pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day, outpacing human workers

Try convincing your children they're not in the middle of some dystopian nightmare, when a headless robot unpacks itself from the back of a driverless car to deliver a pizza on a Friday night.

Auto-docking system on commercial vessels and on recreational marine and fishing vessels in Japan is expected to start after 2020. Robotic commercial ships are being developed by Japan, Norway, China, UK and others shipping nations.

The United States Postal Service has a lot of ways to move the 484.8 million pieces of mail it handles every day. In rural Alaska, postal workers run hovercraft, prop planes, and the occasional parachute. They pilot boats in the Louisiana bayou and s

We're tantalizingly close to AI with all five senses.

Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders.

Live in San Francisco, Chicago, or New York? They're already here.

As FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon.com Inc., they've been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and unloading trucks.

Experts have been warning us about potential dangers associated with artificial intelligence for quite some time. But is it too late to do anything about the impending rise of the machines?

An offshoot of Alphabet Inc.'s Google has become the first drone operator to receive government approval as an airline, an important step that gives it the legal authority to begin dropping products to actual customers.

Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald has directed many movies, including the drama "The Last King of Scotland" and thriller "State of Play." But last year was the first time Macdonald worked with a script written by a machine.

Metallic Wood is the name of a new material that is developed by the scientists of University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, the University of Cambridge, and Middle Eas

At low speed, it operates like a quadcopter, at high speed, it's a jet-propelled, highly efficient supersonic aircraft whose entire body acts as a low-drag wing. Those are the claims of the Romanian creators of this flying saucer that's designed to o

In the food industry, it seems, the robot revolution is well underway, with machines mastering skilled tasks that have always been performed by people.

Airbus has begun shore-to-ship trials in Singapore with its #Skyways parcel delivery #drone. This marks the first time drone technology has been deployed in real port conditions, to deliver a variety of small, time-critical maritime essentials to wor

Tesla bought Maxwell Technologies for their dry battery technology. Maxwell proved 300 Wh/kg energy density is which 20-40% better than current Tesla batteries.

Full-size bus testing is underway. Some readers tell me this could not happen for decades. My calendar says its 2019.

Elon Musk has always warned us about Artificial Intelligence(AI) and this is what he thinks about Google's Deep Mind and AI.

Artificial Intelligence: Mankind's Last Invention - Technological Singularity Explained

A new high-tech fiber that combines the elasticity of rubber with the strength of a metal has been developed by US scientists. (Video)

The robot rolling down the street just might be delivering a FedEx package to your home or office.

24M, the battery start-up headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., announced first delivery of a commercially viable, high energy density lithium-ion cells – the SemiSolid lithium-ion battery design – to an undisclosed industrial partner.

Named Xin Xiaomeng, the perfectly coiffed broadcaster is the newest addition to Xinhua's two male AI presenters

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