China claims to have successfully tested hypersonic capabilities last week. Hypersonic weapons, which travel several times faster than the speed of sound, have long been…
A new highly maneuverable search and rescue robot that can creep, crawl and climb over rough terrain and through tight spaces have been developed by…
You step into a train wagon that really is an aircraft body at your local train station. Then, at the airfield, a delta wing is…
The startup company 'Looking Glass' has developed a screen that can display 3D models as a hologram. The screen is called "The Looking Glass" and…
It became known last week that Hyperloop Transportation Technologies would build a hyperloop track in China and it appears that they will be joined by…
The United States Military Research Division DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ) has developed tiny robots that may be used for rescue work…
Airbus, Siemens, and Rolls-Royce are teaming up to design and build a hybrid-electric flight demonstrator. The project is called 'E-Fan X' and the intention is…
The latest version of the robot 'Cheetah' is able to traverse serious obstacles and through difficult terrain without visual aids. The MIT-developed robot Cheetah is…
MIT physicist and AI researcher Max Tegmark separates the real opportunities and threats from the myths, describing the concrete steps we should take today…
The company Ceramicspeed has developed a bicycle concept they say will revolutionize the bike. The concept bike called 'Driven' grabs attention with its radical looks…
More than six decades after the end of World War II, the population of Holocaust survivors is diminishing quickly. In “116 Cameras,” director Davina…
Biomedical engineer Giada Gerboni shares the latest developments in "soft robotics," an emerging field that aims to create nimble machines that imitate nature, like…
Super entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a small submarine to save the boys that are trapped for more than two weeks in a flooded cave…
High blood pressure can lead to heart disease and stroke, but it often goes undetected and untreated. A new technology could change that by…
Keep moving forward—and upward! Stuntronics, a new robotic figure developed by Imagineers, performs extreme aerial maneuvers 60 feet in the air, making real-time decisions for…
MIT engineers have created soft, magnetic 3-D-printed structures that can transform their shape almost instantaneously by the wave of a magnet. The structures are…
Researchers at JSK Lab at Tokyo University have developed a drone that can change shape while flying. The drone is called DRAGON, which stands…
The European Space Agency (ESA) will soon send the robot CIMON to space where it will connect to the crew of the International Space…
Hugh Herr’s bionic limbs have already revolutionized life for amputees (including himself). Now he’s envisioning new capabilities for everyone else.
Waltham, Mass.-based Boston Dynamics was founded by Raibert in 1992 as a spin-off out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where it developed the…