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DARPA O-Circuit program wants drones that can smell danger...

Practical Smell-O-Vision could soon be coming to a VR headset near you

ICYMI - RAI introduces its new prototype "Roadrunner," a 33 lb bipedal wheeled robot.

Pulsar Fusion Ignites Plasma in Nuclear Rocket Test

Details of the NASA Moonbase Plans Include a Fifteen Ton Lunar Rover

THIS is the Biggest Thing Since CGI

BACK TO THE MOON: Crewed Lunar Mission Artemis II Confirmed for Wednesday...

The Secret Spy Tech Inside Every Credit Card

Red light therapy boosts retinal health in early macular degeneration

Hydrogen-powered business jet edges closer to certification

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.

Magnesium battery breakthrough means safer batteries that won't explode

Worried about the lithium-ion batteries found in your laptops and cell phones? Your worries will soon be gone because of this new battery discovery.

3U Cubesat launch will be months instead of years and only $250,000 starting in 2019

There is a revolution coming coming for low cost small payload launching.

Royal Navy looks to nature for futuristic sub concepts

In 2015, the Royal Navy released its concept of the surface warship of 2050. Now the RN is casting its crystal ball beyond 2050 by asking a team of young engineers from UKNEST to develop concepts for future British submarines.

Neuralink could get up to $100 million for high bandwidth brain computer interface

Elon Musk's Neuralink will invest $100 million on a high bandwidth brain computer interface.

Deep Learning at 15 Petaflops from Intel and partners

An Arxiv paper, presents the first, 15-PetaFLOP Deep Learning system for solving scientific pattern classification problems on contemporary HPC architectures.

DIY Powerwall Builders Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power Their Homes

In May of 2015, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's Powerwall. The battery allows homeowners to store electricity, either from the grid or solar panels.

More durable and longer lasting lithium-ion batteries with nanosheet anodes

Singapore researchers have a new generalized method of producing anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. The anodes are made from metal oxide nanosheets, which are ultrathin, two-dimensional materials with excellent electrochemical and mechanical

$30 billion Small Satellite market from 2017 to 2026

Prospects for the Small Satellite Market – A global supply and demand analysis of government and commercial satellites up to 500 kg.

Meet The First-Ever 3D Printer That Can Do Construction in The Vacuum of Space

This will change how we explore space.

Toyota Says It'll Launch Solid-State Battery EVs In 2022

We feel like we've heard this countless times already, but here we go again.

Existing 51 qubit quantum simulator using rubidium atoms could scale to hundreds...

Existing 51 qubit quantum simulator using rubidium atoms could scale to hundreds of qubits

Neil Jacobstein on the Future of AI

Neil indicates the Dota 2 announcement was a problem. 50 people beat the Dota 2 bot after the announcement.

Singularity Global Summit Space panel

Space: The Next Frontier

Musk Will Build His Own Hyperloop For New York To D.C. 29-Minute Transit

Although Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said on numerous occasions that he has no plans to build a hyperloop -- even though it was his idea initially -- now it seems he's changed his mind.

Roborace Explained: Artificial Intelligence Meets Racing

Roborace is set to organize the first championship for self-driving vehicles, or 'AI drivers' as the organisation prefers to name it. The competition will take place at street tracks currently used by Formula E.

GS Yuasa Promises Range-Doubling EV Battery By 2020

Range-doubling battery technology!

Tesla applying to test self-driving semi-trucks in Nevada and California

Tesla is developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that can drive itself and move in "platoons" that automatically follow a lead vehicle, and is getting closer to testing a prototype, according to an email discussion of potential road tests bet

Constructing full earth like conditions in Space with technology proven in the sixties

John Bucknell presented at the Starship Congress 2017 his Nuclear Thermal Turbo Rocket and applied for a single stage to orbit mission of placing a space habitat.

Intel to build a 100-strong fleet of self-driving cars

In addition to drones, virtual reality and smart sports gear, Intel is making strong moves in the world autonomous vehicles, something it recently demonstrated with a US$15 billion purchase of driverless tech company Mobileye.

A futuristic ride in Mercedes' self-driving car

We're all used to seeing "concept cars" -- those bits of automotive frippery that manufacturers trot out at motor shows every few months. Generally, they're either design tinsel that will never see the light of day, or previews of cars that will soon

Drugs Are The Health Of The State

If you've been listening to the soon-to-be former Attorney General Jeff Sessions' blather for any length of time at all, then you know that he believes that an increasing number of states like Colorado and Washington must be brought firmly to hee

Inside Salesforce's Quest to Bring Artificial Intelligence to Everyone

Optimus Prime--the software engine, not the Autobot overlord--was born in a basement under a West Elm furniture store on University Avenue in Palo Alto.

Creating nearly perfect meter sized graphene one hundred times faster

Researchers have achieved a leap forward in graphene production, from a technique that synthesizes a few square centimeters of single-crystal graphene in a couple of hours, to...

Technical progress towards interstellar laser beamed nanocraft

Breakthrough Starshot brings the Silicon Valley approach to space travel, capitalizing on exponential advances in key areas of technology since the beginning of the 21st century.

Smallest fully functional space probes now in orbit are precursors to interstellar chipsats

Breakthrough Starshot plans to launch a fleet of tiny interstellar chipsize probes to Proxima Centauri in 30 or 40 years.

Meet Tally: The Grocery Stocking Robot About To Eradicate 1,000's Of Minimum Wage Jobs

Amazon wiped out billions of dollars worth of grocery store market cap last month when they announced plans to purchase Whole Foods. The announcement sent shares of Kroger, Wal-Mart, Sprouts, and Target, among others, plunging... (WMT -4%, TGT -5.5%

As California's labor shortage grows, farmers race to replace workers with robots

Driscoll's is so secretive about its robotic strawberry picker it won't let photographers within telephoto range of it.

Safer solid propellant for cubesats

Los Alamos National Laboratory has a radical new solid propellent for cubesats.

Sailorless Ships Are Coming to the Freight Industry

Tech companies from Google to Apple may be ploughing resources into driverless cars, but on our oceans, automated ships could be making bigger waves by the end of the decade.

Carbon nanotube reinforce Composites can reduce space vehicle mass by 30%

NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is keenly interested in nanotechnology – an approach that can reduce the mass and improve the performance of aerospace systems.

The Boring Company Adds Elevator Skeleton For Car/Pod Transport

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is certainly not wasting any time with his Boring Company concept.

Robots are coming to a burger joint near you

•A burger-flipping robot called Flippy will be at work in CaliBurger restaurants by early 2018.

Softbank buys Boston Dynamics a leading robotics company

A subsidiary of SoftBank has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire robotics pioneer Boston Dynamics from Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL, GOOG). The transaction aligns with SoftBank's investments in paradigm-shifting technologies and its visi

Breakthrough for the generation of fully functional skin tissue...

Breakthrough for the generation of fully functional skin tissue and other tissues will follow

EMdrive inventor Shawyer's latest information on military applications and...

EMdrive inventor Shawyer's latest information on military applications and superconducting EMDrive progress

Graphene oxide supercapacitor on verge of commercialization

Researchers at Swinburne's Centre for Micro-Photonics are one step closer to producing commercially viable, chemical-free, long-lasting, safe batteries.

Solar powered EMdrive version of Space Battleship Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato is a major anime movie series. The original Yamato movie in Japan eclipsed that of the local release of Star Wars. It was followed by over a dozen movie sequels.

IBM has made Carbon nanotubes transistors smaller and faster than silicon

IBM scientists have made carbon nanotube transistors smaller and faster silicon transistors. Carbon nanotube transistors have long had the potential to be better than silicon, but this is the first time when that promise has been realized.

ESA Plans to Privatize Robotic Space Plane by 2025

Although Europe's Space Rider reusable space plane is three years or so from its debut, the European Space Agency (ESA) is already making plans to privatize the unmanned orbital vehicle.

Google on track to make quantum computer faster than classical computers within 7 months

John Martinis, one of Google's quantum computing gurus, laid out Google's "stretch goal": to build and test a 49-qubit ("quantum bit") quantum computer by the end of 2017. This computer will use qubits made of superconducting circuits. Ea

New Paper Ream-Like Battery Boasts Impressive Energy Density

Doubling the energy density, and thus range of the state-of-the-art electric vehicles to some 620 miles (1,000 km) is the stated goal of Mobile Energy Storage Systems out of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Dresden, Germany.

The Electric, Driverless Revolution Is About to Hit the High Seas

Fully electric ship Yara Birkeland to be launched next year Will be controlled remotely in 2019, fully automated by 2020

The Elite Want to Transfer Consciousness to a New Body and Live Forever

There's a body of research -- treatments, cures, procedures -- that are afforded by wealthy elites, quietly worked on in private labs and little talked about in the media. The never ending quest for immortality has truly never ended.

Tesla plans 10-20 gigafactories which would eventually be about 12 to 24 million vehicles per year

Tesla had its annual shareholders meeting on June 6, 2017 and there were many big announcements in it.

Welcome to Salinas! The Farming Town Where Robots Reign

In Salinas Valley, about an hour and a half south of San Francisco, farmers and tech types are joining forces to turn this place into a kind of Silicon Valley for agriculture.

Delivery drone patent packs a parachute into a shipping label

Commercial delivery drones are already taking flight, but before the system really gets off the ground, there are plenty of big-picture details to sort out.

Novel 3D printer puts continuous printing on the table

At the heart of many of today's 3D printers is a stationary print bed, which means that if you want to print a really, really long object like a company logo for above the office door or hollow tubing, it would likely take several print runs and some

DARPA Picks Boeing To Build Its New Space Plane

The research agency hopes its XS-1 jumpstarts a whole new industry of very-low-cost satellite launches.

Fiber-reinforced hydrogel is 5 times stronger than steel

Hydrogels have shown significant potential in everything from wound dressings to soft robots, but their applications have been limited from their lack of toughness - until now.

Google Researchers Are Teaching Their AI to Build Its Own, More Powerful AI

What could possibly go wrong?
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