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Missiles Could Find Their Own Targets
Artificial intelligence has found its way into cars, manufacturing equipment, home appliances and even aircraft. The Army, in a move that I’m sure has been covered by some low-budget action movie, is looking to integrate the technol...
Chinese EV Co. Stiffs Aston Martin in Deal Gone Bad
The Aston Martin Vanquish was a touring car that existed through two generations, the second of which concluded production in 2018. That happened to be the same year that the automaker went public, and in the ensuing flood of paperwork, it was ...
Supplier Allegedly Paid $900K in Kickbacks for UAW Contracts
As the Big 3 continue discussions with the United Autoworkers Union on terms for an upcoming contract, there’s a lot of distracting noise in the background – and it’s the roar of a raging scandal that just continues to grow.The issue is ...
Salmon Cannon Fires Fish Over Dams
Based in Seattle, WA, Whooshh Innovations designs systems that help fish move over obstacles. The company's tech uses AI to identify and sort out invasive species, differentiate between hatchery fish and those grown in the wild, and help fish m...
Drone Swarms Descend Upon Mock City Hall
In June, DARPA held its second field experiment for the OFFSET program. The OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics program, pairs autonomous air and ground robots to complete missions in urban environments. The test was held at Selby Combi...
Astro the Robotic Dog
Just as soon as we cover a poop-scooping robot, the fleshy beasts could be rendered obsolete by a new robot dog from researchers ...
Autonomous Boat Looks for Amelia Earhart
In 1937, Amelia Earhart tried to fly around the world. She didn't make it, and went down somewhere in the Pacific -- ...
Amid Shortage, Airlines Are Leasing Older and Older Planes
Demand for air travel has increased by five percent so far in 2019, but there’s a problem. Airlines can’t keep up, and much of the blame falls squarely on Boeing, whose problems with its 737 Max 8 model has resulted in the grounding of 387 plan...
Swimming Robot Mimics Moon Jellyfish
A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has created a robotic jellyfish. Jellyfish are some of the most efficient swimmers on the planet. While they’re not that fast, they move through the water by creating a natu...
Beetl Robot Uses State-of-the-Art Tech to Address Backyard Poop Problems
Beetl Robotics wants to provide best-in-class robots using its expertise in cloud networking, computer vision and mechanical design. So naturally, they turned to poop scooping. According to Beetl, more than 35 million households in ...
Latest Air Force One $2B Over-Budget
According to a recent report from Business Insider, the new and improved Air Force Ones that President Trump has helped re-design, will cost upwards...
Startup is Going to Use Helicopters to Catch Rockets
Rocket Lab says reusing its rockets will help it launch small satellites more frequently. The process of traveling to space is riddled with complicated and expensive engineering challenges, but efforts to make it more economical hav...
Engineers Drop 500-Pound Weights on Lithium-Ion Batteries
Batteries go through some intense testing. Researchers drive nails through them, crush them, overheat them, overcharge them and blast them with a laser, among other tests.Now, the engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have a new toy...
Airbus Unveils Bird of Prey Concept
The engineers at Airbus have been particularly inspired by nature lately. In late June, Airbus revealed a scale-model prototype of a new aircraft concept that
Rumored Lordstown Plant Buyer Posted $6,000 in Q2 Sales
Earlier this week the Associated Press reported that GM was in the – likely uncomfortable – position of having to correct the vice p...
Co-Worker Shot, Killed on Assembly Line
A 28-year-old employee at an automobile seat factory has been arrested and charged with murder after allegedly shooting a co-worker on the assembly line.On Sunday, August 4, 2019, Angela Nichole Mayo shot and killed 27-year-old Shanina S...
Latest Mustang Looks to Chase Down Corvette
A couple of weeks ago Chevy unveiled a new-look Corvette touting an upgraded engine design capable of pushing the iconic sports car to new levels of speed and maneuverability.That news was obviously not lost on the folks over in Blue Ov...
Inventors Sue Amazon, Target Over Trendy Lightbulb
It’s been several years since much of America has fallen under the spell of the Edison bulb – the trendy lightbulb that goes hand-in-hand with today’s standard hipster décor comprised of bronze industrial fixtures and reclaimed barnwood. <...
Lyft e-Bikes Are Starting on Fire
I know everyone thinks that the worst thing about those electric scooter share programs is that, once they’ve served the rider’s purpose, they’re just discarded like trash until someone from the company arrives to pick them up. It’s this issue ...
Programmer Guilty After Scheming Siemens with ‘Logic Bombs’
Most computer programmers, we can assume, use their vast technical knowledge for good and – let me just say – whoever created the “document recovery” feature in Microsoft Word – thank you from all of us who can’t be bothered to click save, even...
Nintendo Sued Over ‘Manufacturing Defect’
If you’re into video games you know that, if the controller doesn’t work right, then what’s the point…It appears Nintendo users are taking issue with a specific technology that’s been on the fritz for a while now and a newly filed
Curtiss Motorcycles CEO Says Harley's LiveWire is 'Bloodless'
In late 2017, Confederate Motors, a high-end motorcycle manufacturer, announced that it was giving up on internal combustion engines. The Birmi...