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U.S. and Iran are expected to announce the finalization of a draft proposal of a peace deal...

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Cars Are Fast Becoming Dystopian Prison Pods...

Our Emergency Water Plan Wasn't Good Enough - So We Built This

Sodium Ion Batteries Can Reach 100 Gigawatt Per Hour Per Year Scale in 2027

Juiced Bikes proves capable electric motorcycles don't have to cost a lot

Headlight projectors turn your car into a drive-in theater

US To Develop Small Modular Nuclear Reactors For Commercial Shipping

New York Mandates Kill Switch and Surveillance Software in Your 3D Printer ...

Cameco Sees As Many As 20 AP1000 Nuclear Reactors On The Horizon

His grandparents had heart disease. At 11, Laurent Simons decided he wanted to fight aging.

Mayo Clinic's AI Can Detect Pancreatic Cancer up to 3 Years Before Diagnosis–When Treatment...

Automation

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.

Now you don't have to take out the trash! Self-driving robotic garbage bin ...

Now you don't have to take out the trash! Self-driving robotic garbage bin is programmed to take itself to the curb side for pickup

Li-CO2 Batteries Promise 7 Times The Energy Density Of Lithium-Iion

They can have seven times the energy density of the best Li-Ion battery possible.

Into the great unknown: The Parker Solar Probe

Current location: On its third lap around the Sun on a highly elliptical orbit, becoming closer and closer with each revolution

Hydrogen-powered VTOL launches with 15-hour flight time

China's MMC UAV launched a new hydrogen-powered vertical take-off and landing drone – or hydrone - at InterGEO 2019 in Germany last week, that has a flight time of up to 15 hours.

Boston Dynamics' Spot is leaving the laboratory

A new leasing program is putting dozens of robots to work in the real world

Russia's humanoid robot filmed using drill onboard ISS in amazing footage

The robot has conducted a series of works on the ISS with on-board tools, including an electric drill

Skeleton Ultra Capacitors | Fully Charged

We visit Skeleton Technologies in Tallinn, Estonia to find out how these remarkable products are made and what they do.

Can This New Technology Make Batteries Obsolete?

Today we're going to look into Ultracapacitors and the revolutionary Graphene, and how they are going to shape the future of energy and transportation.

Safe, Factory Mass Producible Truck Sized Nuclear Reactors

A new Very-Small, Long-LIfe, and Modular (VSLLIM) reactor design has been developed at the University of New Mexico's Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies.

Robot pilot that can grab the flight controls gets its plane licence

A robot pilot is learning to fly. It has passed its pilot's test and flown its first plane, but it has also had its first mishap too.

Soyuz rocket carrying Russian robot docks with space station

The Fedor robot will spend 10 days on the International Space Station, learning tasks performed by astronauts.

Unmanned spacecraft successfully docks at space station on second try

On its second try, Russia's pilot-less Soyuz MS-14 successfully docked on the International Space Station's aft-facing Zvezda module.

SpaceX Had a Successful 150-200 Meter Hop of the Starhopper at About 5 PM CT

SpaceX just had a successful 150-200 Meter hop of the Starhopper.

Bell's eVTOL cargo drone makes first autonomous flight

Drones buzzing overheard delivering small packages or medical supplies from A to B seems to be in our immediate future. Now Bell has joined the cargo drone race with the APT 70, which has just nailed its first autonomous test flight.

The Robot Ship Set to Cross the Atlantic and Change the World

Maxlimer could be the first unmanned surface vessel to make the vaunted crossing--opening the way for a new generation of oceangoing drones, cutting prices and carbon footprints.

Neil Jacobstein | Foundation In Exponentials - AI | Global Summit 2018 | Singularity University

Exponential technologies are fueling disruptive change in industries and societies around the world. This session provides a rapid-fire introduction to Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, Cryptographic technologies and currencies, Next-generati

Scientists Are Building a Real-Life Version of the Starship Enterprise's Life Scanner

Spiral light reveals living creatures.

Delivery Robots Set To Invade College Campuses This Fall

Starship Technologies, an autonomous delivery company, focused on last-mile delivery services, announced Tuesday via a company press release, that it will launch delivery robots on 100 university campuses across the US in the next 24 months.

Starship Technologies Delivery Robots Have Made Over 100,000 Paid Deliveries

Starship Technologies is making delivery robots and they just received $40 million in funding. The robots are advanced devices that can carry items within a 4-mile (6km) radius.

AI Has Go Rating of Over 5100 Versus Best Human at 3696

In 2018, OpenAI discovered that the amount of compute used for AI training doubles every 3.5 months. By comparison, the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits only doubles every 18 months, a.k.a Moore's Law.

ROBOT BATTLESHIP US Navy to build £330m world's largest robot warship...

THE US Navy wants to build a fleet of ten robot warships over the next five years.

Soft Magnets Promise To Make Electric Motors 3 Times Lighter

They are technically called "metal amorphous nanocomposite materials."

UPS has been quietly delivering cargo using self-driving trucks

The delivery giant has announced a minority stake in autonomous trucking startup TuSimple

Putin's robo-nauts prepare for lift-off: Russia's space agency releases eerie footage of...

Putin's robo-nauts prepare for lift-off: Russia's space agency releases eerie footage of human-like android Fedor as he gets ready to join the International Space Station crew next week

Linear Labs Present The HET, A Revolutionary Direct-Drive Motor

The company claims to have improved efficiency and safety in operation.

Compelling Evolutions In Electric Vehicle Technologies

Ongoing and future Innovations in power devices, cells. and batteries is imminent.

In a Lab Accident, Scientists Create the First-Ever Permanently Magnetic Liquid

For the first time, scientists have created a permanently magnetic liquid. These liquid droplets can morph into various shapes and be externally manipulated to move around, according to a new study.

Humble beginnings for Roborace:

The world's first autonomous car race is run and done

DLR develops unmanned gyrocopters to autonomously cart heavier cargo

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is developing a new type of gyrocopter that gets rid of the pilot to provide more cargo space. The focus of the Automated Low Altitude Air Delivery (ALAADy) system, the ALAADy Demonstrator unmanned gyrocopter is desi

Stunning image captured by Planetary Society's spacecraft show its ultra-thin...

Stunning image captured by Planetary Society's spacecraft show its ultra-thin solar sail unfurled against the backdrop of Earth as it begins 'sailing on sunlight'

Smart glove uses stretch-sensing tech for highly accurate hand gesture capture

Getting real, physical movements accurately depicted in the digital world remains a challenge for programmers and engineers, but a newly developed glove promises to advance the tech significantly.

Peloton's Automated Follow feature would allow a person to drive two trucks at once

Trucking is an industry that could be shaped significantly by autonomous vehicle tech in the coming years, and enabling heavy haulers to roll along in tight formations known as platoons could be a key part of this future.

Toyota reveals full line-up of support robots for 2020 Olympics

Back in March, the first Tokyo 2020 Robot Project helpers were revealed. Now Toyota has pulled back the curtain on its full line-up, with mascot bots, full-sized humanoids and field support bots joining the delivery and human support robots already a

Dynamic, reprogrammable material goes hard under light and soft in the dark

Materials that change their properties in response to different environmental triggers promise all kinds of versatility for all kinds of applications, and an international team of scientists has just come up with a particularly inventive one.

Bacteria recruited to produce graphene on the cheap

Incredibly thin, flexible, strong and electrically conductive, graphene has the potential to revolutionize electronics and materials.

China Claims To Have Slashed Lithium Production Costs

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

Episode 359 - The Secrets of Silicon Valley: What Big Tech Doesn't Want You to Know

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

When CubeSats meet asteroid

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

Tesla Maxwell Battery: Kyocera/24M Venture Might Provide Hints

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

Volvo Vera Electric Autonomous Hauler Hits The Road In Sweden: Video

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

Man filmed 'sleeping' behind the wheel of his autopilot Tesla-

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

The Future Is Here: Watch Robot Cop Pull Over Driver And Issue Ticket

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

Exploring The Depths, with The Gladius Mini 4K Underwater Drone

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?

UPDATE: Remember How Walmart Employees LOVED Their Robot Coworkers?

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.

New Photonic Chip Will Push to Limits of Computational Energy Efficiency...

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

Autonomous mapping vessel takes out Ocean Discovery XPrize

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

Technology Is Becoming Indistinguishable From Reality

Tesla Gigafactory 3 Construction Progress May 30, 2019: Video

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

Low-cost sensor glove could lead to robots that identify objects by touch

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

Skai hydrogen-powered eVTOL air taxi boasts enormous 400-mile

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.
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