Chinese firm halves worker costs by hiring army of robots to sort out 200,000 packages a day

The future of U.S. homebuilding depends on more people like Cyndicy Yarborough, a 26-year-old former Wal-Mart clerk with no background in construction.

What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with (and build) radical new designs for bridges, cars, drones and much more -- all by th

The news flow from Tesla CEO Elon Musk continues to be prolific.

Fifty years from now, today's humans will be obsolete, historian Yuval Harari says

In Richardson, a robot is reporting for its first day on the job.

Scientists at publicly-funded universities are racing to create human-like artificial intelligence that will displace the humans who funded them in the first place. Ethical and moral debate is entirely missing in this field. ? TN Editor

(Natural News) Can robots write our news? Researchers from the Media Management and Transformation Center (MMTC) at Jönköping International Business School mean to answer this question by launching a news site project that is entirely facilitated,

Chowbotics Inc. claims that its device can make a salad faster and more precisely suited to your caloric desires than a human can.

Robotics at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded.

8 Advanced Robots Animal You NEED To See

Amazon, which currently charges a $99 annual fee for two-day deliveries under its "Prime" service, will eventually offer two-tier pricing for delivery services, Jindel said.

This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but with a paper clip. In this scenario, the designers of the world's first artificial superintelligence need a way to test their creation.

Starship Technologies, the London-based company that has created six-wheeled self-driving delivery robots, will begin taking customers Domino's pizzas in Germany and the Netherlands.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Elon Musk convened in his Gigafactory to talk lithium ion batteries, climate change, and the future of alternative energy sources.

A startup will soon launch game changing 3-D printers that can fabricate metal parts cheaply and quickly enough to make the technology practical for widespread use in product design and manufacturing.

Every time I do a post on self-driving vehicles, readers respond that it cannot happen and won't happen for a decade, if ever.

The Middle East has an outsize impact on energy here on Earth. One analyst thinks some regional powerhouses may leverage that role into the development of natural resources in space.

CLEARLAKE, Calif. -- On a recent afternoon, an aerospace engineer working for a small Silicon Valley company called Kitty Hawk piloted a flying car above a scenic lake about 100 miles north of San Francisco.

The bigger they are, the harder they compute

Looking at it, you wouldn't think the Lilium Jet could fly. It looks more like a computer mouse than any aircraft you've seen, and its 36 small propellers run on electricity, not jet fuel.

Hello, future.

All electric, presumably self-driving and gargantuan in size, it could make cargo transportation safer and less detrimental to the environment.

Via a Tesla supplier, we get a rare look inside the Gigafactory.

One year ago, German company e-volo caught our attention by sending its crazy 18-rotor Volocopter into the sky with a living, breathing human aboard. With an eye to actually deploying this thing as a personal flying taxi some time in the future, it h

Ultra-pure diamond crystal at the point of convergence combines multiple lasers into one superlaser

Elon Musk has plans to launch V-band low-Earth orbit (VLEO) constellation that would consist of 7,518 satellites which will follow the earlier proposed 4,425 satellites that would function in Ka- and Ku-bands. This global gigabit per second low la

California will shortly bring more Tesla energy storage systems online in Southern California Edison's (SCE's) service area.

Using a custom-made silicon skin and articulated morphing wings, Soon-Jo Chung and researchers from UIUC created Bat Bot (B2), an autonomous flying robot that mimics the flight characteristics of real bats.

One day, not too soon -- but still sooner than you think -- the smartphone will all but vanish, the way beepers and fax machines did before it.

DARPA has announced its Molecular Informatics program, which seeks a new paradigm for data storage, retrieval, and processing.

ARIES RC channel, that is promoting new technology (specifically new battery technology) in unmanned UAVs, released an interesting video on Tesla's lithium-ion battery (of which they sell on ebay).

Orbital manufacturing is already paving the way for better solar panels, faster internet, cleaner computer chips, and lab-grown human hearts

In the latest installment of our "Dear Bernie" series, posts intended to inform the Vermont Senator about the unintended, negative consequences of minimum wage hikes, we present SAM (Semi-Automated Mason), a brick laying robot designed and engineered

Earlier this month, we witnessed the first "civilian" flight of a real-life jetpack made by Jetpack Aviation. During our time at the test site in California, we also made a point of pulling aside company founder and CEO David Mayman to ask him where

In 2020, Natilus's huge unmanned planes could carry 200,000 pounds of goods across the world. But first, a 30-foot prototype must pass test runs.

Elon Musk has launched a company dedicated to linking human brains with computers, The Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler reported Monday.

Normally in warfare, bigger is better. Most militaries are always looking for something that'll make a bigger impact.

Modern electronic biomedical devices are enabling a wide range of sophisticated health interventions, from seizure detection and Parkinson's disease therapy to functional artificial limbs, cochlear implants and smart contact lenses.

Scientists have for the first time developed a transparent sample of a popular industrial ceramic that is the second hardest material after diamond and can withstand substantially higher temperatures.

Transhumans believe they will escape the laws of sin and death, ultimately merging with machines and computers to live forever. Musk's plan is an attempt to co-opt Artificial Intelligence by merging with it and to avoid being destroyed by it. ? T

Technocrats build because they can, and in the process, humanity is being deep-conditioned to be willingly controlled by robots, AI and Smart Assistants. The creators will eventually serve their creations. ? TN Editor

This development is likely what caused Google's Technocrat/Transhuman Ray Kurzweil to declare that Singularity will be reached in 2029 instead of 2045. Remembering is a dangerous outcome if they are faulty to begin with, or worse, prejudiced agains

Lip-reading is an inexact science, with motoring mouths making it hard to attribute sounds to each individual movement.

Last year Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payments company Braintree, starting making news when he threw $100 million behind Kernel, a startup he founded to enhance human intelligence by developing brain implants capable of linking people's th

A platoon of driverless trucks equipped with Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) appeared on the 110 freeway in San Pedro.

Forget self-driving cars, Uber has a new one for you… flying cars.

However, in graphene -- one atom thick graphite -- the density of electrons is much smaller and can be changed by making a transistor. As a result of the low density of electrons the wave nature of electrons, as described by quantum mechanics, is eas

A burger-flipping robot has just completed its first day on the job at a restaurant in California, replacing humans at the grill.

Volkswagen unveiled Sedric at the Geneva Motor Show. It's a bizarre looking vehicle, clearly not suitable for anything but the best-paved roads.