Public transportation in rural communities can be improved upon in many ways, including with projects like MONOCAB-OWL. It consists of autonomous transportation pods that make use of old railway tracks in a manner similar to that of the monorail system.
You’ve seen Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas, now check out Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot. Priced from just $16,000 USD, the G1 can withstand brutal kicks and easily recover, making it perfect for some robotic UFC fights.
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Engineering students from John Hopkins University have developed an innovative silencer for Black & Decker leaf blowers. To start, the team first spent months dissecting the leaf blower piece by piece and analyzing all of its noises and why it makes them.
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter captured a surreal video of the Sun’s ever-changing landscape up close. This transition from the Sun’s lower atmosphere to the much hotter outer corona reveal its hair-like structures, which are actually made of charged gas (plasma), following magnetic field lines emerging from the interior.
JBV Creative built a drill-powered, 3d-printed helicopter that can actually fly, and it just might be the world’s first to do so. Put simply, all you need are the proper 3D printing files and a power drill to get this thing off the ground.
The 5th Gen iPad Air M1 is still the perfect tablet for most users, even content creators, and you can get one for $399 shipped today, originally $599. Its 8-core CPU delivers up to 60% faster performance, while the 8-core GPU delivers up to two times faster graphics performance compared to the previous iPad Air. Product page.