The 2024 Cadillac Escalade is one of the most luxurious full-sized SUVs on the market today, but the 1,000hp Hennessey H1000 Cadillac Escalade-V adds a bit of oomph. Is it fast enough to take on a Lamborghini Huracan? John Hennessey wanted to find out, so he pit both of these vehicles against each other in a drag racing showdown.
While Figure 02 is working at the BMW factory, this humanoid robot, developed by Japanese researchers, boasts an anatomically correct tendon-driven musculoskeletal system. What the group discovered was that by moving a tendon-driven musculoskeletal humanoid using the tendon wire lengths of the geometric model, unintended muscle tension and slack emerges.
NASA’s JPL may have detected a volcanic moon near WASP-49 b, similar to Jupiter’s Io. This exomoon is located 635 light-years from Earth and one intriguing finding is a sodium cloud close to but slightly out of sync with the exoplanet.
Elon Musk also made a surprise announcement at the ‘We, Robot’ event tonight, and that came in the form of the Tesla Robovan. This fully autonomous electric vehicle looks to have drawn inspiration from the 1930s Art Deco trains and can transport up to 20 people at once, effectively making it a mini bus of sorts.
The Tesla Cybercab made its public debut at the company’s ‘We, Robot’ event tonight at Warner Bros. Studio in Burbank, California. Just about everyone knew that Elon Musk was going to unveil a robotaxi of some sort, but not many expected it to cost under $30,000 USD and have not steering wheel or pedals.
Universal Pictures has teamed up with SEGA to produce a live action ‘Shinobi’ movie based on the video game series. Sam Hargrave will be directing this film for Universal, while Ken Kobayashi (Sunny, Move On) is writing the screenplay adaptation of the arcade game, which made its public debut back in 1987.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a surreal image of open cluster Westerlund 1, which is located approximately 12,000 light-years away in the southern constellation Ara (the Altar). This cluster is home to a large, dense, and diverse population of massive stars, which has no counterpart in other known Milky Way galaxy clusters.