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May 11, 2022

Watch: This electric motorcycle has its entire ‘heart’ inside its hubless rear wheel

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The Verge TS isn’t just a proper hubless, electric motorbike. It also comes with an insane 1,000 Nm of torque. property= description.

May 11, 2022

‘No idea’ passenger lands Florida plane as pilot falls ill

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The unnamed passenger can be heard in recordings with air-traffic control saying he had “no idea how to stop the airplane”.

May 11, 2022

A power suit created by NASA and UFC can boost the power capacity of EVs

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May 11, 2022

A passenger with no flying experience landed a private plane after the pilot was incapacitated

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May 10, 2022

See how a huge 3D printer is going to build 200 concrete homes in Virginia’s tech hub within the next 5 years

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Zack Mannheimer, the CEO of Alquist, predicts more US homes will be 3D printed than built “traditionally” within the next five years.


Imagine moving through airport security without having to take off your shoes or belt or getting pulled aside while your flight boards—while keeping all the precautions that ensure the safety of passengers and flight crews.

May 10, 2022

Automated threat recognition software could speed airport security

Posted by in categories: security, transportation

Imagine moving through airport security without having to take off your shoes or belt or getting pulled aside while your flight boards—while keeping all the precautions that ensure the safety of passengers and flight crews.

This is the challenge tackled by a team including researchers from Sandia National Laboratories—a challenge that led to development of the Open Threat Assessment Platform, which allows the Transportation Security Administration to respond more quickly and easily to threats to air travel safety.

“When we wanted to change how we screen in response to new threats,” said Andrew Cox, a Sandia R&D systems analyst who leads the OTAP project. “The technology was too rigid. TSA compensated by adding procedures. There’s a shoe bomber and you have to take your shoes off; liquid explosives arrived, and TSA had to limit liquids and gels.”

May 9, 2022

Elon Musk Fears for His Life After Russian Threats

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May 7, 2022

Hyundai has kicked-off production on novel 4×4 vehicles with robotic legs

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

They may be the only cars to go more viral than Cybertruck.

Remember that Hyundai concept 4×4 with robotic legs?

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May 6, 2022

A new approach to reproduce human and animal movements in robots

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

In recent years, developers have created a wide range of sophisticated robots that can operate in specific environments in increasingly efficient ways. The body structure of many among these systems is inspired by nature, animals, and humans.

Although many existing robots have bodies that resemble those of humans or other animal species, programming them so that they also move like the animal they are inspired by is not always an easy task. Doing this typically entails the development of advanced locomotion controllers, which can require considerable resources and development efforts.

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May 6, 2022

NASA’s X-57 ‘Maxwell,’ Its First Electric Airplane, Will Start Test Flights Next Month

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Meanwhile, the agency’s supersonic X-59 QueSST has completed wind-tunnel and stress tests.