4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (494+ words) AEON will learn and validate industrial tasks before factory deployment. Hexagon Robotics and motion technology company Schaeffler announced last month that AEON had entered Schaeffler’s Humanoid Gym in Germany, advancing a collaboration to bring humanoid robots into industry. The facility…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (380+ words) The unchecked corporate race to develop AI poses an unprecedented danger to humanity, the researcher claims. Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from his role in pre-training AI models over safety concerns, claiming the unchecked corporate race to develop AI…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (449+ words) A wave of AI service disruptions created an unusual backdrop for OpenAI’s latest model deployment. OpenAI, Claude, Grok, Copilot and Cursor were among the services that saw disruption reports. Their respective status pages also showed issues during the day. Gemini…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (511+ words) A lab in the United States is helping researchers develop materials for extreme environment applications, such as gas turbines and fusion energy systems....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (280+ words) Chinese private launch firm Galactic Energy flew its medium-lift PALLAS-1 rocket for the first time on 1 September 2026, lifting off at 10am Beijing time from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation pilot zone at Jiuquan and reaching its designated orbit. China just flew…...

2+ week, 5+ hour ago   (250+ words) Hangzhou startup CoolFly launched the Urban on 13 August 2026, a standing eVTOL platform flown by shifting your body weight instead of working a control stick. A Chinese startup has built a flying skateboard, and it says most people can learn to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (305+ words) SpaceX will spend at least $100 billion on Starbase Louisiana, a spaceport spread across roughly 125,000 acres of coastal land south of Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish. SpaceX just committed $100 billion to a stretch of Louisiana swamp. It is called Starbase Louisiana,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (165+ words) Interesting Engineering How Does This C-130 Shut Down Enemy Communications? The EC-130H Compass Call is America’s electronic warfare C-130, designed to disrupt enemy communications and command networks. Now, the decades-old aircraft is being replaced by the EA-37B. The EC-130H Compass Call…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (489+ words) Wireless power beaming could give orbital computers up to 10x more power without larger solar arrays. US-based space tech firms Star Catcher Industries and Aethero have partnered to scale high-performance computing and artificial intelligence in orbit, addressing the power constraints that…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (356+ words) US company Starcloud is developing satellites equipped with high-performance GPUs, including NVIDIA hardware, to run AI workloads in space. US-based startup Starcloud has raised $250 million in a Series A extension at a $2.3 billion valuation, giving the company fresh capital to…...