Restaurant Robot Loses Control, Exposing a Bigger Safety Problem
Why does a robot serving dinner still seem to need a babysitter? A short video from a California hot pot…
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America’s Waste Could Become Its Rare Earth Lifeline
What if the materials holding up advanced manufacturing were already sitting in landfills, ash ponds, scrapyards, and old mine waste?…
Virginia Drivers Convicted Above 100 MPH Face Car Speed Limiters
Virginia is moving speeding enforcement from tickets and suspensions into the vehicle itself. Beginning July 1, judges in the state…
Teen Turned Down $300,000 to Keep Farm AI in Class
So what is a 16 year old to do when a dropout bid is made before a driver license is…
Ford’s 4.4 Million-Vehicle Tow Recall Shows How One Module Can Darken a Trailer
A modern tow package may fail in a manner that is invisible to the driver in the cab: the trailer…
Why the Army Rushed 2,500 Tactical Drones Into Its Toolkit
Small drones have ceased being a helpful accessory and transitioned to becoming frontline infrastructure. An order of over 2,520 X10D…
NASA Ends MAVEN Mission After Mars Orbiter Falls Silent
Generally, no spacecraft get tours going into the sunset! A single signal and it goes silent once again. By virtue…
NASA Lost Contact With a Key Mars Orbiter for Good
What happens to a space agency if a spacecraft goes behind a planet and won’t come back out? After a…
NASA’s Roman Telescope Cleared a Final Mirror Test With Bigger Stakes Than Hubble
On a surface flatter than dust can show can be up or down a space telescope. This was not just…