There’s Dream Chaser Tenacity, and then Radia WindRunner, the world’s largest plane. This aircraft measures 356 feet long, 79 feet tall and has a wingspan of 261 feet, making it ideal for transporting giant wind turbine blades to remote airstrips.
It may be a while (if ever) until we see the Atari Hotel, but the Las Vegas Sphere is a decent alternative, or at least entertainment wise. What you don’t see is how it pulls video from a Hitachi Content Software for File system consisting of 27 nodes, with 4PB of flash storage for playback within Sphere and streamed in real-time to 7thSense media servers.
There’s the CudaJet underwater jetpack, and then Hydrus, a micro-autonomous underwater drone that can be used to explore shipwrecks and study aquatic life. Unlike other underwater drones, Hydrus captures stunning imagery, even in challenging low light and turbid conditions, thanks to a 4K camera, dynamic lighting as well as AI image processing.
You’ve need the strongest magnet for IronLev’s innovative magnetic levitation system, just an existing rail. That’s right, the Italy-based company successfully completed the world’s first magnetic levitation (maglev) transport test on an existing railway track.
Parkour on the rooftops of Paris may be a pastime exclusively for daredevils, but the quadruped ANYmal robot is definitely no slouch either. Researchers at ETH Zurich have trained ANYmal to smoothly navigate obstacles in an urban environment, including the tricky terrain commonly found on building sites or in disaster areas.
Figure 01 just got an OpenAI upgrade that enables the humanoid robot to have full conversations with humans, thanks to the ChatGPT maker’s large vision language model (VLM). The two companies aim to develop next generation AI models for humanoid robots by combining OpenAI’s research with Figure’s deep understanding of robotics hardware as well as software.
Researchers from China’s Southern University of Science and Technology have developed a werable photoacoustic imaging watch that lets you see the blood vessels in your skin in real-time. The system consists of a watch with an imaging interface, a handheld computer and a backpack housing the laser as well as power supply.
North American Wave Engine Corporation successfully demonstrated their unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with no moving parts. That’s right, power comes from a 50+ lbf (222+ N) thrust wave engine, complete with remote instant start on liquid fuel.
Photo credit: Stratolaunch | Matt Hartman
Stratolaunch successfully completed a powered flight of its TA-1 test vehicle. Engineers were able to accomplish a safe air-launch release of the Talon-A test vehicle, engine ignition, acceleration, sustained climb in altitude, and a controlled water landing.
Kratos’ Thanatos is designed for long range missions, while Teledyne DLIR’s Black Hornet 4 nano drone tackles more stealthy operations. Weighing just 70 grams, it can fly for more than 30-minutes on a full charge and in up to 25-knot (28.7 mph) winds.