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Jul 29, 2016

The Hyperloop is bringing some of its futuristic tech to Europe’s biggest railway

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, business, transportation

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced today that it will build an “innovation train” for Germany’s Deutsche Bahn, the largest railway operator in Europe. The train will not be a super-fast hyperloop, in which pods are propelled through aluminum tubes at speeds of up to 760 mph, but a conventional train that includes some of the futuristic technologies the startup has been showcasing at tech conferences around the world.

As a startup that relies on crowdsourcing and volunteer engineers, the collaboration with Deutsche Bahn may allow HTT to start generating revenue while it works toward the larger goal of building passenger-ready hyperloop systems. Indeed, HTT’s CEO Dirk Ahlborn said in a statement that the partnership will help create “new monetization strategies and business models” for his company.

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Jul 29, 2016

This Is the Enormous Gigafactory, Where Tesla Will Build Its Future — By Jack Stewart | Wired

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, energy, solar power, transportation

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““The factory is the machine that builds the machine,” Musk says, sitting in the lobby of his new building.”

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Jul 26, 2016

Horizon: The Future of Public Transport

Posted by in category: transportation

This is an amazing concept!

By: Hashem Al-Ghaili

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Jul 25, 2016

China Bans Testing Of Autonomous Cars On Its Highways

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation

No offense Tesla, Google, GM, etc.


China has banned highway testing of autonomous vehicles while the country’s auto-industry regulator works with local police to determine specific national rules about autonomous car testing.

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Jul 23, 2016

Audi Mesarthim F Tron Quattro concept supercar that is powered with nuclear fusion

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, sustainability, transportation

The concept of nuclear fusion is definitely a reliable and sustainable option to meet the energy needs of the world without fossil fuels. There are several scientists who will suggest this as a beneficial option. Nuclear Fusion is a method of fusing together the atomic nuclei. It can produce vast amount energy with only a small amount of fuel. It can prove to be really beneficial if control of the method is perfected. It will take only a small number of small fusion power stations to provide sufficient energy for the whole world. It will also ensure no harmful emissions at all. The Audi Mesarthim F Tron Quattro concept is a nuclear powered car imagined by Grigory Gorin, a Russian car designer.

Audi Mesarthim F Tron Quattro conceptAudi Mesarthim F Tron Quattro concept

The Russian car designer imagined this amazing concept of providing power to a car by harnessing nuclear fusion. The fusion reactor along with the attached plasma injectors can be seen in the middle of this Audi concept car. The equipments required to generate the steam are packaged around them. The heat of the reactor is used which spins a turbine that connected to a generator. The generator charges the batteries that are located at the front and alongside of the Audi Mesarthim F Tron Quattro concept. The batteries power the electric motors (wheel mounted).

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Jul 20, 2016

YouTube video of golfer Bubba Watson trying out futuristic transport system on the course

Posted by in categories: futurism, transportation

Pro-golfer and world number 5, Bubba Watson, has been trialling the pack at a New Zealand golf course in a video for Oakley, which sees the golfer zoom about on the greens.

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Jul 19, 2016

Nissan cars are about to get some awesome self-driving features

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Tesla isn’t the only automaker using semi-autonomous driving technology to lure customers. Nissan just released its version in Japan.

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Jul 19, 2016

Baidu built an AI that composes music after looking at art

Posted by in categories: information science, media & arts, robotics/AI, transportation

When Art Inspires AI; AI composes music.


Who says AI is only for big data crunching and driverless car driving?

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Jul 19, 2016

Another Big Shrink: Tiling Chiplets into Next-Generation Microsystems

Posted by in categories: computing, robotics/AI, transportation

Open the hood of just about any electronic gadget and you probably will find printed circuit boards (PCBs)—most often in a leaf-green color—studded with processing, memory, data-relaying, graphics, and other types of chips and components, all interconnected with a labyrinth of finely embossed wiring. By challenging the technology community to integrate the collective functions hosted by an entire PCB onto a device approaching the size of a single chip, DARPA’s newest program is making a bid to usher in a fresh dimension of technology miniaturization.

“We are trying to push the massive amount of integration you typically get on a printed circuit board down into an even more compact format,” said Dr. Daniel Green, manager of the new program, whose acronym, “CHIPS,” is itself a typographic feat of miniaturization; the program’s full name is the Common Heterogeneous Integration and Intellectual Property (IP) Reuse Strategies Program. “It’s not just a fun acronym,” Green said. “The program is all about devising a physical library of component chips, or chiplets, that we can assemble in a modular fashion.”

A primary driver of CHIPS is to develop a novel, industry-friendly architectural strategy for designing and building new generations of microsystems in which the time and energy it takes to move signals—that is, data—between chips is reduced by factors of tens or even hundreds. “This is increasingly important for the data-intensive processing that we have to do as the data sets we are dealing with get bigger and bigger,” Green said. Although the program does not specify applications, the new architectural strategy at the program’s heart could open new routes to computational efficiencies required for such feats as identifying objects and actions in real-time video feeds, real-time language translation, and coordinating motion on-the-fly among swarms of fast-moving unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

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Jul 19, 2016

Glow-in-the-Dark ‘Smart Highways’ Replace Street Lights in the Netherlands

Posted by in category: transportation

Light-absorbing glow-in-the-dark road markings have replaced standard street lighting on a 500 meter stretch of highway in The Netherlands. This project is the first stage of a concept first unveiled back in 2012 by designer and innovator Daan Roosegaarde, who presented his ‘Smart Highway’ plans during Dutch Design Week. Roosegaarde’s design took top honors in the 2013 INDEX: Awards, and we’re excited to see it finally hit the streets!

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