Oct 24, 2024 | Aerial Vehicles, Air Mobility, Featured
The Federal Aviation Administration has formally recognized a new category of aircraft for the first time in roughly eight decades — a technology not so different from the flying cars of “The Jetsons” and “Back to the Future.” The FAA officially...
Oct 24, 2024 | Featured, Rideshare, Transit
Election Day is less than two weeks away, and everyone here in Waco has a way to get to the polls. A common reason people don’t go out and vote is due to lack of transportation. To solve that problem, Waco Transit will be providing free rides to the polls on Election...
Oct 24, 2024 | Featured, Robots
Next month, at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2024) in Munich, Germany, experts from Duke University will introduce the world to SonicSense. This system offers robots a perception capability similar to humans. “We introduce SonicSense, a holistic...
Oct 24, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Wind
Maintaining offshore wind turbines could be greatly improved by UNITE, a project developing AI and control systems that allow underwater robots to operate autonomously in turbulent seas. The technology is currently undergoing trials as part of UNITE (Underwater...
Oct 24, 2024 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) adopted new guidelines for highly automated vehicles (HAVs) on Pennsylvania roadways. The new guidelines update Publication 950 to allow certified users to operate autonomous vehicles on the road...
Oct 17, 2024 | Art, Robots
In a first for Sotheby’s, the famed auction house will sell a painting made by a humanoid robot — and it’s expected to fetch up to a whopping $180,000. The robot, known as Ai-Da, created the painting of renowned mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing...
Oct 17, 2024 | Defense, Drones
New details are emerging about drones that flew over U.S. military bases last year, though there is still no explanation for where they came from. Air Force officials confirmed several drones flew over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia in December of 2023,...
Oct 17, 2024 | Featured, Nuclear, Space
This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses nuclear fission and...
Oct 17, 2024 | Batteries, Detroit, Electric Vehicles, Featured
General Motors has agreed to establish a joint venture with Lithium Americas Corp. that includes the automaker supplying $625 million in cash and credit to the Canadian mining business, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal is centered on the development,...
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