Heineken recently unveiled a beer-carrying robot that ensures ice-cold brews are always nearby. The “Beer Outdoor Transporter,” or simply B.O.T., is designed to follow you around while carrying up to 12 ber cans in its onboard cooler. With its onboard AI and speech synthesizer, the WALL-E-like robot can...
KleinVision's hybrid car-aircraft, AirCar, completed a 35-minute flight between two international airports in Slovakia. The Slovakian company was founded by Professor Stefan Klein, who has been devoted to “converting his flying-car dream into reality” since 1989 when he finished his diploma-thesis “AeroMobil - Personal Vision of Transport System.” Powered by...
> After more than 16 years of research, engineering, and testing, Virgin Galactic stands at the vanguard of a new commercial space industry, which is set to open space to humankind and change the world for good. - Richard Branson In a shocking update yesterday, Virgin Galactic announced its plans to...
A new study [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01058-x] in Nature Climate Change has found that, on average, about 37% of heat deaths can be tied back to human-induced climate change. The study gathered data from 732 sites in 43 countries over almost three decades, from 1991 to 2018. Using...
Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has used AI to restore the missing edges of Rembrandt’s damaged masterpiece, The Night Watch. Finished in 1642, the canvas was trimmed on all four sides in 1715 to fit between two doors at Amsterdam’s city hall. The museum trained the AI using both a...
Santa Monica, California-based AR tech firm Red 6 [https://www.red6ar.com/] has raised $30 million to expand its military aircraft training platform, bringing its valuation to $130 million. Founded in 2018, the company developed the Airborne Tactical Augmented Reality System (ATARS), which uses AR in training planes for pilots...
