May 12, 2022 | Electric Vehicles, Featured
Owning an electric vehicle can save drivers thousands of dollars per year, with $6,000 average savings over the vehicle’s lifetime, but the savings is dependent on rebates, state fees, and the cost of gas and electricity. As gas prices escalate in the United States,...
May 12, 2022 | Autonomous Vehicles, Featured, Safety
People are scared of not being in control. That’s partly why so many of us are more scared of flying than of driving: we’re not the one flying the plane. Even though the drive to the airport is actually more dangerous than the flight, it feels safer, because we’re in...
May 12, 2022 | Featured, Space
The U.S. military has awarded contracts under a new program to address in-space manufacturing needs, as part of a larger effort to reduce the costs of spaceflight. Space manufacturing could allow humanity to build large structures efficiently, using materials launched...
May 5, 2022 | Business, Featured, Robots
One of my favorite robots of the last few years is named Cassie. Little more than a pair of bipedal robotic legs, the robot was designed as a robust R&D tool for ground mobility applications. It’s a cool robot, and it’s a great illustration of a...
May 5, 2022 | Biotech, Featured, Healthcare, Robots
If you want to see the unfettered power of cooperation, you need look no further than colonial insects. In the 1998 DreamWorks Animation film Antz we follow Z, an ant who is tired of working for the benefit of the colony and wants to chart his own path...
May 5, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Vehicles, Featured
The massive new nodes created inside and outside self-driving cars will bring new business opportunities for AI solutions, and the entire creation process can be seen as a combination of “kitchen wastes” and “indestructible cockroaches,”...
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