Collaborate Disseminate
The winners have been announced in the third annual World Nature Photography Awards. A haunting glance from a mud-crusted crocodile lying in wait takes the top honors, but there’s a visual feast to enjoy from the other winners and runners-up.Continue R… Continue reading The struggle is over in the World Nature Photography Awards
At the company’s 2023 Investor Day presentation, Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy described how the company’s organizational structure is designed to ensure full accountability and a collaborative approach that makes sure manufacturing and a… Continue reading Tesla re-thinks 100-year-old automaking model, aiming to halve costs
An uncharacteristically subdued Elon Musk presented some short video on the Optimus prototype, noting that as recently as October last year, it had to be rolled out on stage to wave like a politician.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: … Continue reading Musk expects Tesla Bot to be a much bigger business than its cars
It’s our first look at the new aircraft, styled by auto-design guru Frank Stephenson – and it appears to run a notably different airframe than the prototypes the company has previously shown in cruise transition testing.
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Continue reading Autoflight breaks Joby’s world record for the longest eVTOL flight
We’ve spoken to this California company before about its impressive progress and ambitious plans in the fusion power space. With more than US$1.2 billion in investments behind it, TAE has come in ahead of schedule with results from its fifth-generation… Continue reading TAE makes world-first readings of magnetically-confined H-B fusion
Along with its new X-winged VTOL military drone, BAE Systems has announced a new “Razer” system designed to take standard non-guided munitions and convert them into precision guided missiles, at low cost, and delivered through local manufacturing.Conti… Continue reading BAE unveils low-cost, high-volume precision guided missile kits
The STRIX was unveiled this morning at Australia’s Avalon Air Show, in front of air force chiefs from around the world – with the notable exceptions, according to the ABC, of Russian and Chinese delegates, who have been excluded from the conference.Con… Continue reading BAE unveils the Strix, a fascinating, tail-sitting X-wing VTOL UAV
Zero has collaborated with San Francisco’s Huge Design to produce this super-futuristic take on the brand’s SR/S electric sports tourer. Snub-nosed and snub-tailed with a wide slot of a headlight, the SR-X looks like it dropped out of Cyberpunk 2077.Co… Continue reading Zero unveils future-sexy SR-X concept
The strongest winds tend to be higher up, but as this 2022 study shows, higher-mounted turbines catching stronger wind doesn’t necessarily equate to the lowest cost of energy. Indeed, once you factor in the costs of stronger foundations and taller, stu… Continue reading GE installs world’s first spiral-welded wind turbine tower
A hole in your basketball is typically not a good thing, but Wilson’s bizarre new Airless basketball prototype treats them as a feature. Indeed, it’s probably more hole than ball, and yet it’s said to bounce and respond like a regulation NBA rock.Conti… Continue reading Wilson debuts an airless 3D-printed basketball in the NBA dunk contest