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Boston Dynamics continues to astound us with progress on Atlas, its humanoid robot. In a new video, Atlas goes to work on a construction site, showing off some fascinating new abilities, spiced up with some acrobatics that’d get most of us sacked.Conti… Continue reading Atlas robot takes a major leap in perception and object manipulation
Racing quadcopters are insanely light, quick and agile, but they’re not typically known for their top-speed figures. Mechanical engineer and hobbyist Ryan Lademann builds his own frames to push the limits, and he’s now bagged a Guinness World Record.
Category: Drones, Technology
Tags: World’s Fastest, Quadcopter, World Records, drones
Continue reading World’s fastest quadcopter sets official Guinness speed record
Ammonia does a better job of storing hydrogen than hydrogen itself, in many ways, and it could help clean up some difficult industries that require high-density energy. Brooklyn company Amogy has now presented a world-first ammonia-powered semi truck.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Electric truck, Ammonia, Fuel Cell, Clean+Fuel, Climate Solutions: Road Transport
Continue reading World’s first ammonia-electric semi packs as much energy as the Tesla
Like bladeless Dyson fans on steroids, Jetoptera’s unique aircraft propulsion systems look like pure sci-fi. But they’re beginning to demonstrate some fascinating capabilities in testing, and the next step will be a super-fast VTOL aircraft design.Cont… Continue reading Jetoptera targets Mach 0.8 with bladeless-propulsion VTOL aircraft
New Holland Agriculture has announced a new tractor designed to run on fuel created on-site using cow manure. The T7 Methane Power LNG offers the same power and torque as a diesel tractor, but it’s part of a system that can greatly reduce emissions.Con… Continue reading Dung-powered tractor drives down agricultural emissions
Extreme engineering is becoming the norm as offshore wind continues to scale up. Sweeping the area of 12.3 standard NFL fields each rotation, with gargantuan 140-meter (459-ft) blades, the MySE 18.X-28X will be the largest wind turbine ever built.
Tags: Wind, Wind Power, Wind turbine, World’s Largest
Continue reading Wind turbine as tall as a 70-story building announced in China
Swedish government-owned mining company LKAB has reported the largest deposit of rare earth metals ever discovered in Europe – more than a million tonnes of rare earth oxides, which will be invaluable in the race toward decarbonization.Continue Reading… Continue reading Largest rare earths deposit in European history found in Sweden
Researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xianyang, China, have demonstrated a drone that never needs to land, thanks to a remote charging system that delivers power via an adaptive, target-tracking laser on the ground.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading Laser-charged Chinese drone can stay in the air indefinitely
Aubrey de Grey has done a lot to promote the idea that aging and death are solvable problems – that the damage done over time by metabolic processes can be reversed, and that there’s a chance the first thousand-year-old human may already have been born… Continue reading LEV begins experiments aiming to double the lifespan of middle-aged mice
We are a solar-powered planet; the vast majority of energy needed for life on Earth comes from the sun – and a lot of it, including food and fossil fuels, is the result of plant-based photosynthesis – the conversion of sunlight, water and carbon dioxid… Continue reading Concentrated photosynthesis device promises cheap green hydrogen