The 40-MWh Ferry That Makes Battery Swapping Feel Old Again
“Moving Hull 096 under its own battery-electric power is a world first at this scale and confirms that electric propulsion…
A Positive-Energy Warp Bubble Puts Physics Back in the Driver’s Seat
“Research on warp drive now has a more focused target: the engineering of spacetime that doesn’t rely on negative energy.”…
Pandora joins Webb to untangle stars from planet atmospheres
Can a telescope that is making a search of the life of the worlds far away depend on what a…
Artemis II rollout puts the spotlight back on Orion’s toughest test
How extreme is the speed of a 322 feet rocket? At Kennedy Space Center, it is approximately 11 mph that…
Artemis II rollout puts crew safety tests in the spotlight
An SLS rollout is a 12-hour, four-mile reminder that the most difficult part of returning astronauts to lunar distance is…
A robot face mapped its own muscles, then lip-synced from online videos
What would it take to make a humanoid convincingly believable and only to find that a couple of millimeters of…
Why robot touch is moving from data streams to spikes
Each time a robot fingertip measures continuous pressure values, it stands a chance of using more energy to transfer data…
SpaceX Burns One Falcon 9 While Pushing Starlink Toward Bigger Satellites
A Falcon 9 without landing legs is a bit like a sprinter who has come to the track without his…
Atlas Enters Factories by Doing the Boring Work First
What propels a humanoid robot towards inevitability is rarely a moonshot. It is a small, repeatable task done well and…