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The automated McDonald's has a staff comparable to other stores. But the crew members are all focused on making and packaging orders instead of delivering them.
ChatGPT's capabilities are astonishing.
Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.
Heart muscle is shaped like a spiral, a mystery that has eluded scientists since 1669. New research has recreated the structure.
This is a great improvement over the typical brew time of 12 to 18 hours.
More than 150 companies are developing flying cars. Here's why they're aren't yet off the ground and darting across city skies.
Deep learning AI has accurately created color images from night vision images.
For the very first time, an AR contact lens was worn on the eye of a human subject. And it has about 30 times the pixel density of an iPhone.
An out-of-this-world idea could help reduce some of the risk of solar geoengineering.
Photosynthesis is powerful but very inefficient. Humans can improve on this biochemical process to help the planet.
It has no moving parts and could allow us to tap into renewable energy year round.
In a major advance, scientists have found a new and groundbreaking way to force electrons to flow only in one direction in a superconductor.
Two types of nanotechnology, metalenses and metamaterials, could soon make Harry Potter's invisibility cloak a reality.
Nanofabricators could quickly synthesize whatever we need, molecule by molecule.
Spin, spin, spin — fire! The startup’s radical system could make satellite launches cheaper and cleaner.
A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.
A radical redesign of commercial aircraft, called the flying-V plane, could increase fuel efficiency by 20%, greatly reducing emissions.
Michio Kaku predicts, among other things, how we'll build cities on Mars and why cancer will one day be like the common cold.
Aerial drone footage was sent to an AI trained to track down space rocks.
Edible electronics, devices that can be broken down and digested, could perform many useful functions inside the body.
Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.
Besides offering an incredibly cool way to get stuff into space, SpinLaunch promises to reduce the cost of a launch by 20-fold.
Steel tires may be better for the planet and could replace rubber.
Humanoid robots are coming, and Ameca is designed to be the ideal platform to study human-robot interactions.
Wireless charging isn't just for phones and laptops. It could also power medical devices like heart implants.