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CES 2023 Robot Roundup: Bots to Make Our Lives Better, Easier, or Just More Fun
Not all of these will end up being widely used, but there's certainly a variety of jobs robots could do for us in the not-too-distant future. → Read More
Meta Is Building an AI to Fact-Check Wikipedia—All 6.5 Million Articles
Meta’s model will “understand” the content it scans by creating and comparing mathematical representations of blocks of text. → Read More
Volvo and DHL Are Partnering on Hub-to-Hub Autonomous Trucking
Volvo worked with driverless hardware and software specialist Aurora Innovation on the self-driving systems for its trucks. → Read More
This Portable Wind Turbine Is the Size of a Water Bottle and Charges Devices in Under an Hour
The miniature wind turbine weighs 3 pounds and has a maximum output of 40 watts, or about four phones' worth of power. → Read More
Could Future Skyscrapers Be Made of Wood? Two New Timber Towers Are Going Up
The idea of a skyscraper made of wood is a bit bizarre, as there’s a host of reasons not to use the material for this particular purpose. → Read More
Scientists Are Using CRISPR Gene Editing to Try to Create Hypoallergenic Cats
A team of scientists has been working on tweaking cats' genomes to remove a protein that causes allergies in humans. → Read More
The Biggest Guaranteed Income Trial in the US Is Launching in Chicago
Chicago's guaranteed income program will distribute $500 a month to 5,000 families for a year, with no strings attached. → Read More
Japan Wants to Make Half Its Cargo Ships Autonomous by 2040
Upon reaching its port the autonomous ship was even able to steer itself into its designated bay, with drones dropping its mooring line. → Read More
Flippy the Fast Food Robot Just Got Hired in 100 Restaurants
White Castle was the first restaurant chain to significantly invest in Flippy, piloting the robotic assistant in 2020. → Read More
This $4 Desalination System Can Meet a Family's Daily Water Needs
Larger-scale desalination methods require pumps and pressurization, but this is a passive system driven by convective flow. → Read More
Sony's Racing AI Just Beat the World's Best Gran Turismo Drivers
Besides being a feat in itself, the AI's accomplishment could have real-world implications for training self-driving cars. → Read More
Scientists Chasing Artificial Kidneys Create Most Complex Kidney Tissue Yet
According to the researchers, this is the most complex kidney structure that’s been generated from scratch in a lab. → Read More
A UK Startup Is Building 200 Flying Taxi Hubs Around the World
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas two years ago, Hyundai and Uber unveiled an air taxi concept they’d partnered on, claiming people would be riding in the flying vehicles by 2030. Now Hyundai has taken an important step towards making that prediction a reality. The company just invested in a British startup called Urban-Air […] → Read More
Habitat for Humanity Is Using 3D Printing to Build Affordable Houses
The 3D printed house cost 15 percent less to build than wood-frame houses, and construction took just three months from start to finish. → Read More
The World's Biggest Vertical Farm Yet Is Going Up in Pennsylvania
Upward claims yields at its vertical farms are two times above the industry average thanks to its ecological farming method. → Read More
This Autonomous Delivery Robot Has External Airbags in Case It Hits a Person
The vehicle can carry up to 500 pounds and move at a speed of 45 miles per hour. It's electric, autonomous, and will run on wind energy. → Read More
Next Week You'll Be Able to Eat 'Chicken' Made From Plants at KFC
The two companies tested plant-based chicken at an Atlanta restaurant in August 2019, selling out their limited supply in half a day. → Read More
The Metaverse Will Need 1,000x More Computing Power, Says Intel
The metaverse won't be realistic until we have high-speed, low-latency data transfer for hundreds of millions of users at the same time. → Read More
2021 Will Set an All-Time Record for New Renewable Energy
In just one year, we added renewable energy capacity equal to more than 128 monster solar farms, 140 Hoover Dams, or 82 massive coal plants. → Read More
GE's New Autonomous Electric Pods Have No Steering Wheel, Pedals, or Cab
Einride estimates its autonomous pods will save GE around 970 tons of carbon dioxide emissions in the first year, with that number increasing over time. → Read More