The best Super Bowl halftime shows leave indelible memories, be it a notorious wardrobe malfunction, that goofy Left Shark, or every last second of Beyoncé's two appearances. It's too soon to say whether anything Lady Gaga did tonight will reson

Fedex is investing in autonomous trucks, and is interested in delivery robots and an Alexa app

Poised to seriously disrupt the world, will the impacts of artificial intelligence be for the good of humanity, or destroy it?

for automation, robotics, 3D manufacturing and research While the USA has been extremely concerned about losing jobs (particularly manufacturing jobs to China), China performed a survey of businesses in the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing

If you thought the legged robots from Boston Dynamics were scary enough, you might want to click away now. Described by company founder Marc Raibert in a presentation to investors as "nightmare inducing," the new robot known as "Handle" takes all you

Bats are strange creatures. They dart through the sky on wings made of skin, their tiny bodies swooping and swerving as they hunt insects for hours on end. They boast a compact, efficient, lightweight form, which makes them an ideal inspiration for a

The human brain, consisting of roughly 86 billion neurons, rivals the world's best supercomputers in terms of magnitude, efficiency, and speed, using as little energy as a small 20-watt light bulb. Human evolution took tens of thousands of years to

Tech mogul says he will unveil incredible new mind-reading technology next month

AI has claimed some sizable scalps in recent years, with IBM's Watson toppling humans at Jeopardy and Google's AlphaGo program taking down a professional Go player last year.

Online grocer Ocado has shown off a soft robotic hand that can pick fruit and vegetables, without damaging them, in its warehouses.

Five finalist teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE have been set, and they all have rocket launch contracts to go to the Moon in 2017.

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Starship ground delivery robots will now deliver for Postmates and DoorDash.

Airbus working on flying cars, flying buses, ridesharing flying vehicles and drone product delivery

A father and son team in the START-UP NY program have invented a liquid metal printing machine that could represent a significant transformation in manufacturing.

US Army Research lab has created on demand custom 3d printing of drones.

MIT makes compressed graphene sponge material that is 20 times less dense than steel but 10 times stronger, light as stryofoam but stronger than steel

The start of Tesla Gigafactory battery mass production is a huge milestone in Tesla's quest to electrify transportation, and it brings to America a manufacturing industry--battery cells--that's long been dominated by China, Japan, and South Kor

An innovative new cheap and simple mass production technique, developed by the University of Exeter, is set to open up the global potential of the 'wonder' material graphene.

Online retail giant granted patent for astonishing blimp which can carry a vast fleet of robotic flying vehicles

Advances in robotics and additive manufacturing (3D printing) technologies are game-changing for space colonization.

The giant robot, built in South Korea, works by repeating the actions of its pilot sitting inside by moving its enormous arms and legs up and down

The DARPA Warrior Web program aims to significantly lower the "metabolic cost" -- or energy expenditure -- of troops operating in the field, and reduce the physiological burden of the gear that they carry, which can exceed 100 pounds.

The first delivery was made in Cambridge, UK and took 13 minutes from purchase to drop-off.

Nextbigfuture will have several articles over the next few weeks reviewing developments in 2016 and looking ahead to developments over the next few years. Here we look at 2016 in computers. Later articles will look at medicine, life extension, energy

German Xprize team sets its sights on a vintage moon buggy

Siemens is a prime driver of the 4th Industrial Revolution, implementing Smart Grid and Robotics technologies. Technocrats build because they can, not because of a public need. ? TN Editor

Auto tech straight out of a galaxy far, far away

The newest shoe from Adidas is completely vegan, is incredibly durable, and is also 100% biodegradable.

SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) -- There's a new employee rolling around several Bay Area stores -- the bilingual robots -- asking if you need help at Lowe's.

In the past, the United Nations has considered the threat posed by weaponized AI, but now the body is looking at a more mundane, but still important, robot invasion.

RESEARCHERS are developing an artificially intelligent robot which will have a 'brain' and will learn like a human child.

Uber has profoundly disrupted the taxi business with its ride sharing model, and has made it clear it wants to be a key player in future autonomous taxi services.

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Musk claims that, because artificial intelligence is coming, we have two choices. We either make ourselves symbiotically mandatory to the AI or we will basically be destroyed (or end up as pets, but he says that's the "benign scenario").

Elon Musk wants you to take your hands off the wheel, foot off the gas, and let him do the driving.

To stay ahead in the war for the skies, Boeing chases a simple goal: sell as many 737 jets as it can. Things get more complicated when it comes to building most popular commercial jet ever.

Think of it as the airborne cousin to the self-driving car: a robot in the cockpit to help human pilots fly passengers and cargo - and eventually even replace them.

Elon Musk's plan for solar roofs, shareable cars, and maybe an Iron Man suit

Uber is looking for a VTOL aircraft, but they might instead settle on an autonomous people-carrying helicopter, like the Ehang 184 picture.

There's gold in them thar asteroids – also iron, nickel, copper and, most valuable of all, water.

Waterjet cutting is a proven method for creating intricate and precise cuts with nearly any kind of material, although the machines are big and expensive.

The global food system is changing radically as high-tech robots are put into service for every conceivable job. The giant corporate farm will finally be able to drive small farmers completely out of business in the process. ? TN Editor

Agricultural equipment manufacturer Case IH, a unit of CNH Industrial, just unveiled a seriously intimidating-looking tractor at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. Called the Autonomous Concept Vehicle, the robotic tractor can be programmed using

A veteran gets a prosthetic leg up so he can get back to motocross and other extreme sports.

There's been a lot of focus on consumer self-driving technology recently, but autonomy promises to shake things up in the agricultural world too.

"All hands on deck" may become a thing of the past. Ship designers, their operators and regulators are gearing up for a future in which cargo vessels sail the oceans with minimal or even no crew.

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