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Google's Self-Driving Car Gets the Green Light, Will Hit Public Roads This Summer
Google's Self-Driving Car Gets the Green Light, Will Hit Public Roads This Summer

15 May 2015, 11:57 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Some of us have hoped the moment will not happen too soon, others have dreamed about it. Either way, Google's self-driving car will hit public roads this summer

 
World’s First Throw-and-Shoot Drone Is Better than Your Personal Cameraman
World’s First Throw-and-Shoot Drone Is Better than Your Personal Cameraman

14 May 2015, 17:16 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Drones that follow you by themselves is a thing now. There are more than one on the market, but this one seems rather promissing

 
Dubai Wants to Send UAE’s First Outer Space Mission to Mars by 2020
Dubai Wants to Send UAE’s First Outer Space Mission to Mars by 2020

14 May 2015, 14:59 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Dubai has been spending the last years developing with a pace few nations have experienced. They now decided to enter the space competition

 
World’s First Solar Bike Path Turns Out to Be Better Than Expected, Engineers Claim
World’s First Solar Bike Path Turns Out to Be Better Than Expected, Engineers Claim

13 May 2015, 17:03 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / We are slowly switching our cars to electric vehicles, but we still produce a lot of electricity by burning coal. What if we could use the words instead?

 
Google’s Self-Driving Car: 1.7 Million Miles and 11 Minor Accidents in 6 Years
Google’s Self-Driving Car: 1.7 Million Miles and 11 Minor Accidents in 6 Years

12 May 2015, 08:31 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / It's been six years since Google's first autonomous car hit the road. After early rumors leaked, the director of the program released the first conclusions

 
Slovakian Flying Car Crashes During Test Flight, the Pilot Is Uninjured
Slovakian Flying Car Crashes During Test Flight, the Pilot Is Uninjured

11 May 2015, 16:02 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Slovakian flying car AeroMobil is still in the research and development phase. Yet, the fact a prototype crashed is not really the best sign

 
US’s First Production Green Vehicle Powered by Air Gets $5 Million Investment
US’s First Production Green Vehicle Powered by Air Gets $5 Million Investment

7 May 2015, 13:00 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / AIRPod uses compressed air to spin the wheels. Until now, it was rather a sci-fi type of thing in the US, but it turns out we might see it on the streets

 
Robocops to Join Dubai Police Force by the End of the Decade
Robocops to Join Dubai Police Force by the End of the Decade

6 May 2015, 11:24 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Robocop was one of the movies most of us remember. The remake wasn't half as good, but the idea of a robotic police officer comes to people's delight

 
This Is How the Creator of Ferrari LaFerrari Envisions Future High-End Transportation
This Is How the Creator of Ferrari LaFerrari Envisions Future High-End Transportation

6 May 2015, 09:46 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Flavio Manzoni is director of Design at Ferrari and was leading the team to envision Ferrari's latest cars. But he had a secret which we could call unexpected

 
Tiny Robots Use Spider-Man Abilities to Haul Weight 2,000 Times Heavier
Tiny Robots Use Spider-Man Abilities to Haul Weight 2,000 Times Heavier

29 Apr 2015, 13:48 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Imagine a world where tiny bots would haul trucks or even buildings. There is a team working on that type of technology as we speak

 
Formula One Aerodynamics Will Make Grocery Stores Save Energy
Formula One Aerodynamics Will Make Grocery Stores Save Energy

25 Apr 2015, 13:03 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Williams Advanced Engineering, a division of Williams Formula One team, is working on a new aerodynamic device that will be used in supermarkets

 
AlcoStop Uses Sensors to Stop Drunk Drivers from Turning the Engine On
AlcoStop Uses Sensors to Stop Drunk Drivers from Turning the Engine On

24 Apr 2015, 16:54 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Drinking and driving is obviously one of the things that puts a lot of lives in danger. We all know it, but there are still a lot of accidents caused by it

 
Portuguese Company Announces First Successful Internet-Beaming Drone Flight
Portuguese Company Announces First Successful Internet-Beaming Drone Flight

11 Apr 2015, 18:48 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / One of their most important projects is the SkyOrbiter LA25 platform, a device that was designed to stay in low atmospheric orbit for prolonged periods

 
NASA Just Patented a Metal that Turns Heat into Electricity, Will Change the Auto Industry
NASA Just Patented a Metal that Turns Heat into Electricity, Will Change the Auto Industry

9 Apr 2015, 14:25 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Imagine you're driving a hybrid that is able to use the waste heat from your engine in order to create electricity which it sends back into the car

 
Halfbike Sort of Reinvents the Wheel, Will Awake Your Natural Instinct to Move
Halfbike Sort of Reinvents the Wheel, Will Awake Your Natural Instinct to Move

8 Apr 2015, 18:24 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / With the Halfbike you’re supposed to become some sort of a standing rider while using it is supposed to bring you closer to natural walking

 
Environmentalist Start-Up Wants to Plant 1 Billion Trees per Year with Drones
Environmentalist Start-Up Wants to Plant 1 Billion Trees per Year with Drones

7 Apr 2015, 11:23 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The company estimates that a properly-equipped drone could plant at a rate of 10 seeds pods per minute, which would sum up to about 36,000 trees in a day

 
The Navy Is Working on a Flying Submarine Drone, and It’s Scary
The Navy Is Working on a Flying Submarine Drone, and It’s Scary

2 Apr 2015, 09:39 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Tests have been running for some time now, and the latest version of Flimmer the Navy is “playing” with is an aerodynamic fish called the Flying WANDA

 
China Wants to Harvest Green Energy from Outer Space and Send It on Earth
China Wants to Harvest Green Energy from Outer Space and Send It on Earth

31 Mar 2015, 15:13 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The power station was designed as a super spacecraft on a geosynchronous orbit equipped with giant solar panels. It will generate energy and beam to Earth

 
Will Bionic Ants Replace the Future’s Factory Workers?
Will Bionic Ants Replace the Future’s Factory Workers?

31 Mar 2015, 12:43 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / The artificial ants thus demonstrate how autonomous individual components can solve a complex task together working as an overall networked system

 
Scientists Created a Terminator-like Transformable Machine that Eats Metal to Shift Shape
Scientists Created a Terminator-like Transformable Machine that Eats Metal to Shift Shape

30 Mar 2015, 09:45 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Chinese researchers found a liquid metal that basically eats substances and then propels itself like a self-fueled motor