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Tesla Model 3 killer charges from 10 to 97% in just 9 minutes

World-first unpowered DNA computer sets speed record

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The US government is pushing hard to get a working nuclear fission reactor into space by late 2028

SpaceX Starmind AI in Space Radiator

China Will Dominate Global Nuclear Energy Through 2035, Analyst Says

These Absolutely Wild-Looking EVs Are Saudi Arabia's First Homegrown Cars

BEYOND THE MOON: NASA plans a nuclear-powered fleet to push DEEPER into space

Big Oil Backs Mazama's $135 Million Bet On Superhot Geothermal

Quantum compass takes flight on Northrop's Lumberjack drone

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.

Self-driving trucks will cut logistics costs in half and boost GDP

The digitization and automation of processes and delivery vehicles will reduce logistics costs for standardized transport by 47% by 2030, according to a new report from PwC's Strategy and consultancy.

Increasingly human-like robots spark fascination and fear

Sporting a trendy brown bob, a humanoid robot named Erica chats to a man in front of stunned audience members in Madrid.

Texas Robot Brothel Outlawed By City Council

A Toronto-based sex doll brothel hoping to slip into Houston had cold water poured over its plans, after the City Council on Wednesday updated a rule on sexually oriented businesses prohibiting the use of the silicone seductresses for masturbatory pu

Humanoid Construction Robot Installs Drywall By Itself

Jobs of America's 10 million construction workers are in serious jeopardy to be replaced by robots. What's the point? Technocrats invent because they can, not because it is wise to do so. Will humanity de humanized if it is cared for exclusively

Self-driving tractor that could be the future of farming: Hydrogen-powered vehicles...

Self-driving tractors which are powered by hydrogen and controlled by a mobile app could plough the world's farmland under one Italian designer's plans.

Panasonic To Speed Up New Battery Production Line Installs At Gigafactory

Gigafactory production capacity to hit 35 GWh annually this year.

Japanese mini-rovers send back their first images as they hop around an asteroid

Two mini-rovers have sent their first pictures back from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, a day after they were dropped off by Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft.

Robot manufacturers warned 'bug in AI code' will lead to MURDER SPREES

Robot manufacturers warned 'bug in AI code' will lead to MURDER SPREES

China increasing industrial robots by ten times to 1.8 million by 2025

The number of industrial robots in china will increase tenfold to 1.8 million units by 2025. Up to 70% of the robots used in China will be made in China which will increase from 30% now.

HP 3D metal printers are 50X more productive for final parts

HP Metal Jet printers are up to 50x more productive, delivering low-cost, high-quality final parts. New Metal Jet Production Service opens up world of applications to global customers; Partnerships with GKN Powder Metallurgy, Parmatech, Volkswagen, W

Existing technology to mine water and ice on Mars

Kris Zacny, Mining Water on Mars.

Public Lecture #4 - Lunar Prospecting and Mining by Kris Zacny (Honeybee Robotics)

This presentation will detail two projects currently under development at Honeybee Robotics for near term lunar ISRU-focused missions. The first project involves development of a sampling drill for volatile-rich lunar regolith as part of NASA's Lunar

Robotic bumble bee sized drones will explore Mars by flying with flapping insect like wings

Marsbees are robotic flapping wing flyers of a bumblebee size with cicada sized wings. The Marsbees are integrated with sensors and wireless communication devices.

Drone Army Is Ready to Swoop in for Florence Power Recovery

As Hurricane Florence batters the southeastern U.S., a small army of drones is being assembled to quickly help identify and even fix damage caused by the storm.

Solid State Battery Firm Solid Power Raises $20 Million

Solid Power promises all solid-state batteries (ASSB). Established in 2012, Solid Power from Louisville, Colorado that develops all-solid-state batteries (ASSB) has closed $20 million in a Series A investment round.

Electric air taxi prototype makes flight debut

Vertical Aerospace operating out of Bristol, UK, aims to bring on demand, emissions-free intercity air taxi services to the UK skies within four years. The company has nailed the first step in its bold plan by building and flying a fully electric ver

Qanon Counting Down - DEMs Full Panic Mode

DECLAS OF FISA WILL INITIATE THE 'AWARENESS' THAT ALL SIGNERS WILL BE [CURRENTLY] UNDER INVESTIGATION. DECLAS OF FISA WILL FACTUALLY DEMONSTRATE WITHOUT ARGUMENT THE US GOVERNMENT, UNDER HUSSEIN, KNOWINGLY, PRESENTED FALSE EVIDENCE TO FISC IN AN E

Tesla Battery Biz Booming, Mostly From Tesla Energy

Despite increasing negativity about Tesla Energy, business is growing at an alarming rate.

The Truth About Tesla Model 3 Batteries: Part 1

Today we are going to talk about "The Truth about Tesla's Batteries." If you're thinking about a Tesla, you've undoubtedly heard about how cheap they are to fill up, how little maintenance they require, and with recent Model 3 Production ra

25+ year journey to superstrong carbon nanotube bundles

In 1991, Sumio Iijima's discovered multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the insoluble material of arc-burned graphite rods and Mintmire, Dunlap, and White's independent prediction that if single-walled carbon nanotubes could be made, then they would

Breakthrough Carbon nanotube bundles are over 20 times stronger than Kevlar

Finally ultralong (several centimeter) carbon nanotube fibers have been made into stronger bundles. The tensile strength of CNTBs (Carbon nanotube bundles) is at least 9–45 times that of other materials.

Watch Deutsche Accumotive Battery Production

If you ever wondered how Daimler's Deutsche Accumotive produces the batteries for electric smart cars in Kamenz, Saxony in Germany, here is a video that shows the process.

Robot boat sails into history by finishing Atlantic crossing

All summer, the small boat drifted steadily eastward across the churning North Atlantic until it neared the Irish coast, where it made history by becoming the first unmanned sailboat to cross the Atlantic.

Tesla Leads The Way In Cheapest Battery Pack Costs

Tesla's battery cost advantage is expected to last for (at least) several years.

Scientists have invented a way to create 'unlimited renewable energy'...

Scientists have developed a way to transform sunlight into fuel that could lead to an 'unlimited source of renewable energy'.

Superbridge over Gibraltar

Carbon nanotube bundles are becoming a feasible and economically convenient solution for the realization in our time of super bridges, such as those required across the Straits of Bab al Mandab, Messina or Gibraltar (main spans ?2.7, 3.3 or 3.5 km,

Robot teachers invade Chinese kindergartens

he Chinese kindergarten children giggled as they worked to solve puzzles assigned by their new teaching assistant: a roundish, short educator with a screen for a face.

A glimpse of the fruit-ure:

Experts take first steps to create ROBOT strawberry pickers who could end the need for humans toiling in fields

Sony unveils 'first litter edition' of its Aibo robot dog...

Sony's new-and-improved Aibo robot dog is finally coming to the US.

Southern Company partnering with Bill Gates backed Terrapower on molten chloride fast reactor

Several companies are starting to develop molten salt reactors. TerraPower is backed by Bill Gates and is developing molten salt reactors.

Progress to lithium-oxygen batteries with up to four times the energy density of lithium-ion

University of Waterloo Chemists are the first to achieve four-electron conversion, which doubles the electron storage of lithium-oxygen, also known as lithium-air, batteries.

Carbon nanotube NRAM computer memory will start to ship in 2019

Nantero is developing next-generation memory using carbon nanotubes. NRAM's has DRAM-like speed, nonvolatility and low cost.

China's top battery maker will make cheaper next generation low cobalt batteries

China's largest lithium battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) plans to begin producing in 2019 next-generation nickel-rich batteries, which are cheaper to make and have longer life-spans.

Breakthrough to safer solid state batteries with double the performance

The University of Michigan has a made a breakthrough towards a ceramic, solid-state electrolyte which could enable lithium-ion batteries with twice the energy performance.

First Nanotubes, then Graphene and now new form of carbon schwarzites

UC Berkeley chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created by scientists in South Korea and Japan are in fact the long-sought schwarzites, which researchers predict will have unique electrical and storage properties like those now

Arizona confirmed for autonomous grocery delivery

A couple of months ago, supermarket retailer Kroger and driverless vehicle maker Nuro announced that they were to begin testing grocery delivery using the latter's self-driving pods. Now the partnership has confirmed Scottsdale, Arizona, as the first

Gold and silver nanostructures claimed to have room temperature superconductivity

Arxiv – Evidence for Superconductivity at Ambient Temperature and Pressure in Nanostructures

Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family

Carbon cage molecule formed inside pores of zeolites is a negatively curved schwarzite

Demo of two-qubit fault-tolerant universal holonomic quantum gates...

Japases researchers have demonstrated holonomic quantum gates under zero-magnetic field at room temperature, which will enable the realization of fast and fault-tolerant universal quantum computers.

Personalised AI-powered robots are getting more sociable...

Personal home robots that can socialise with people are starting to roll out of the laboratory and into our living rooms and kitchens. But are humans ready to invite them into their lives?

Carbon nanotube reinforced graphene is twice as tear resistant

Fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene.

Can Trump Get America Out of Afghanistan?

After early escalation and record-setting bombs, President Trump is looking for a way out of Afghanistan.

There is No Place for Compulsory Schooling in a Civilized Society

A woman is facing 30 days in jail because her son missed too many days of school. His 82% attendance record wasn't enough to keep her out of court.

Asphalt-lithium metal batteries fully charge in five minutes

As useful and ubiquitous as they are, lithium-ion batteries are nearing their limits, and it's unlikely we'll be able to squeeze much more juice out of them.

Move over, graphene: Iron ore mineral becomes newest 2D material

When it comes to new materials, thin is most definitely in. Brazilian researchers have created a new two-dimensional material called hematene, which is made up of sheets of iron ore just three atoms thick. And as is often the case with 2D materials,

This Robot Hand Taught Itself How to Grab Stuff Like a Human

Elon Musk is kinda worried about AI. ("AI is a fundamental existential risk for human civilization and I don't think people fully appreciate that," as he put it in 2017.)

Robots Could Soon Have More Sensitive Skin Than You Do

Robots may soon be more sensitive than humans--at least when it comes to their skin. Researchers from Glasgow University have developed a type of artificial skin that is more sensitive than our own. Just add this to all the ways robots are taking ov

NASA Is 3D Printing Chainmail for Space Travel

Chainmail was a form of armor popular during Medieval times that consists of hundreds of small metal rings linked together to form armor. While better protection has long made it obsolete, NASA has reimagined its potential as a way to protect astrona

Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors

That science fiction future where robots can do what people and animals do may be closer than you think. Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics, is developing advanced robots that can gallop like a cheetah, negotiate 10 inches of snow, walk upright

How to Watch the Longest 'Blood Moon' Eclipse of the Century

The record-setting lunar eclipse paired with an extra-close Mars will soon have sky-watchers seeing red.
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