4+ hour, 40+ min ago   (945+ words) The US still flies a supersonic trainer, an electronic-warfare jet, and even an aircraft designed to play the enemy. Supersonic flight is often associated with experimental aircraft, futuristic fighters, and Cold War-era icons. Yet the US still operates a surprisingly…...

5+ hour, 36+ min ago   (500+ words) However, Chinese manufacturers have established a substantial lead in production and accounted for more than four out of every five humanoid robot installations worldwide in 2025. Its latest Figure 03 robot is powered by Helix, an embodied AI system that converts visual…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago   (480+ words) The new ‘robot ambulance’ will deliver engineers and replacement humanoids to keep robots working when breakdowns strike. Japanese tech giant GMO Internet Group (GMO Air) has just unveiled what has been dubbed Japan’s first “robot ambulance.” Effectively a kind of…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (102+ words) Interesting Engineering No US power plant currently generates electricity from superhot geothermal fluids. Geothermal energy comes from the underground heat trapped and stored deep beneath the Earth’s crust. It can be accessed through shallow ground, hot water reservoirs, or deep…...

11+ hour, 57+ min ago   (195+ words) Here’s a humanoid who apparently started kicking a customer in Russia, just because they pushed it a little and the video went viral. Just a day later, another video emerged of a humanoid pushing and kicking several people at a…...

1+ day, 44+ min ago   (522+ words) Purpose built around cargo volume, not simply payload weight, WindRunner enables direct delivery of outsized space systems to launch sites, manufacturing facilities, and austere or distributed locations without disassembly....

1+ day, 49+ min ago   (122+ words) Singular Photonics has launched Litavis, a SPAD image sensor that combines photon counting, timing and histogramming with on-chip processing. Litavis builds on that sensitivity by making the sensor software-configurable. The same hardware can be reconfigured for different imaging tasks without…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (575+ words) These companies are building the processors behind advanced AI models. The artificial intelligence boom is creating an almost insatiable demand for computing power. Behind every chatbot, image generator and reasoning model are specialized chips performing vast numbers of calculations within…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (487+ words) A few atoms of aluminum oxide could solve a key trade-off holding back next-generation 2D semiconductor technology. Taiwanese researchers have developed a new atomically thin “primer coat” for molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) that lets you put an extremely thin gate insulator on top…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (939+ words) Why can a robot do a backflip but struggle to fold a shirt? The answer is surprisingly complicated. A humanoid robot can run, jump, dance, and even perform a backflip, yet ask it to fold a shirt, pick up a…...