2018 will be a transformative year for Tesla Motors. Elon Musk is all-in on creating a making his multi-layer assembly line and capital efficient robotic assembly.

The flying taxi could soon be spotted in Dubai and Las Vegas.

One of the overlooked takeaways from the recent Tesla earnings call was connected to automation in battery module production.

Think and plan a lot bigger in space as the SpaceX BFR will give 1000 times old space capabilities

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Honda recently presented its Mobile Power Pack World – a single battery module for all sorts of different applications.

A Bay Area tech company is claiming the world's first delivery of goods by a self-driving car on public roads, after its electric cargo truck carried groceries from the posh Draeger's grocery store in San Mateo to two nearby locations Tuesday.

Researchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential industrial applications.

Australian research group CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) will be using aquatic drones to explore the Southern Ocean.

from herbicides to robots for their weed problems... (Natural News) Robotic weeders are growing in popularity, an expert said, to support the growth and proliferation of specialty crops, or crops that are not mass-produced, and which include vegetabl

Most commercial airliners already fly mostly on autopilot and are able to land and take off with little pilot assistance. The next big wave of AI will be to replace human pilots altogether. Thus, aviation will follow the lead of automotive transporta

The Planetary Resources Arkyd-6 spacecraft was launched and deployed in space. This 6U cubesat is packed with power including 17 computing elements.

One-night stands may soon become commitments thanks to an app that creates contracts for consensual sex.

Flying cars will start filling the skies above you by 2020. So says Uber, anyway, which wants to launch air taxi trials over major cities including Dallas, Dubai, and Los Angeles. And somehow, it's not completely crazy: The technology to produce and

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered novel ways to extend the capabilities of two-photon lithography (TPL), a high-resolution 3D printing technique capable of producing nanoscale features smaller than one-hundredt

D-Wave Systems has commercially sold 2000 qubit quantum annealing systems.

At CES 2018, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced the successful design, fabrication and delivery of a 49-qubit superconducting quantum test chip.

personal privacy goodbye...(Natural News) We live in a society that is obsessed with oversharing. While it's becoming increasingly difficult to tune out the trivial bits of people's lives that we don't care about, we can still choose not to sig

Chinese material scientists have created the world's lightest material: A graphene aerogel that is seven times lighter than air, and 12% lighter than the previous record holder (aerographite).

The Bandicoot robot is designed by a group of young entrepreneur engineers They claim the robot can do the grim job much quicker than human workers

When humans are finally ready to relocate civilization to Mars, they won't be able to do it alone.

The University of Colorado has created next generation healing soft muscle actuators. It is inspired by biological muscle.

MIT has used new gel electrospinning for thinner fibers. This has enabled them to create materials that are stronger and tougher than Kevlar and Dyneema.

? TN Editor [/su_note]Articles like this keep popping up but there is still no serious national debate on the ethics and morality of this technology. Technocrats give lip-service to it, but only to justify it. ? TN Editor [/su_note]

When enough unemployment is created by robots, Universal Basic Income will replace wages and offer a bone to the 'unemployables' This is were the risk of slavery most profoundly. ? TN Editor

Recognizing the human voice, new tech gadgets can play music, search the web, shop online, check the weather, and even switch on the lights or control the central heating.

Pre-historic times and ancient history are defined by the materials that were harnessed during that period. We have the stone age, the bronze age, and the iron age. Today is a little more complex, we live in the Space Age, the Nuclear Age, and the In

You will be able to pre-order clothes folding robots starting in 5 days and 5 hours from foldimate.com.

The movies were right: Gremlins are real. Or at least they will be if DARPA -- the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -- has anything to say about it. As we learned this week from our friends at the Navy Times , DARPA is moving ahead on

Material and engineering researchers at East China's Zhejiang University unveiled a "super" aluminum-graphene battery that can be fully charged in 5 seconds and then last for two hours.

What have you been up to lately, Atlas?

Boeing revealed its MQ-25 unmanned refueling drone.

In four hours, a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never devised in the game's 1,500-year history and the implications are terrifying

The Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has shattered another world record with the testing of a 32-tesla magnet -- 33 percent stronger than what had previously been the world's strongest superconducting

Scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, worked to theorize and test how two layers of graphene -- each one-atom thick -- could be made to transform into a diamond-like material upon impact at room tem

Behold The Future...6 microrobots move a car 18,000 times their weight. We don't want to alarm you, but researchers appear to have come a step closer to helping robots one day take over the world.

DARPA that there have been three waves of AI.

New research at the University of Waterloo in Canada may triple the range of current batteries. A battery breakthrough may be on the horizon if Canadian research pans out.

The mining company Rio Tinto has been running robotic trucks for over ten years. Seventy-six of their 400 mining trucks are robotic.

How can there be any doubt when Facebook and Google are well on their way?

The United States faces a looming crisis over its deteriorating water infrastructure, and fixing it will be a monumental and expensive task.

Dr. Dario Gil is a leading technologist and senior executive at IBM. As Vice President of Science and Solutions of IBM Research, Dr. Gil directs a global organization of some 1,500 researchers across 11 laboratories.

We've featured a fair number of underwater drones over the past few years, and they're pretty much all remotely-controlled by their shore-based users.

Big Pharma is working overtime to restrict consumer access to cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-psychoactive component of cannabis sativa (marijuana) that's been shown to help relieve pain, muscle spasms, and other ailments. Using the U.S. Food and Drug

There are many established and startup companies developing deep learning chips.

As if graphene wasn't versatile enough already, researchers at the University of Arkansas have now found a way for the two-dimensional material to be used as a source of clean and potentially unlimited energy.

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Toyota has unveiled an assistive robot test bed that builds on previous work undertaken by its Partner Robot wing, which examined specific robot limb joints and pre-programmed movements ??" including robots that played musical instruments.

While self-driving cars are regularly in the news, we haven't heard as much noise on the autonomous shipping front, which could have equally far-reaching ramifications.

A fleet of self-driving Volvo vehicles operated by Uber Technologies Inc. could be ready for the road as early as 2019, marking the ride-hailing firm's biggest push yet to roll out autonomous cars.