Living for 104-years has given Lilabel Babcock the chance to witness technology that most would not have imagined at the turn of the 20th century, including the rise of the autonomous Zoox robotaxi. She believes that current vehicles have become ‘quite expensive’ and is glad that there are robotaxis capable of picking her up for errands.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has successfully tested IceNode, their autonomous underwater robot in Beaufort Sea north of Alaska. Engineers hope that one day IceNode will be able to venture beneath Antarctic ice shelves to gather data that would help scientists calculate how rapidly the ice shelves there are melting.
Sugar Design unveiled a miniature Rolls-Royce Phantom EV knockoff at the 2024 Chengdu Motor Show. Aesthetically, it resembles a squished version of the ultra luxurious sedan, complete with a familiar front chrome grille, but without the iconic The Spirit of Ecstasy hood ornament.
You’ve seen the living Terminator sculpture, now check out this bizarre biohybrid robot that is controlled by fungus. That’s right, Cornell researchers cultivated fungal mycelia and then harnessed its innate electrical signals to control “biohybrid” robots.
While probably not as durable as the Unitree G1, the 1X NEO Beta humanoid robot is the first we’ve seen that was designed specially to help around the home. The company just released a video showing how the robot would be safe to work among people.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this dazzling image of the sparking blue star cluster known as NGC 346, located 210,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Tucana. This nebula is a part of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way.
Here’s a fascinating look back at Game Fighter, a horizontal Nintendo Game Boy clone you probably never knew existed. There’s very little information available online about this machine, but from our research, there were internet users making posts about Game Fighter back in 2009.
When is a Volkswagen Crafter not just something people use to transport cargo? When engineer Ben got his hands on one of these vehicles, as it was transformed into a cozy home on wheels, complete with a shower.
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MIT researchers partnered with Castrol to develop AstroAnt, a tiny robot designed to sit atop the lunar rover and gather data. These versatile miniature swarm robots can be used to perform inspections and diagnostic tasks on external surfaces of spacecraft, rovers, and landers.