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Mar 18, 2016

Domino’s has built an autonomous pizza delivery robot

Posted by in categories: military, robotics/AI

Cute, but i think mainly a publicity stunt. You couldnt trust that thing to be by itself unless it was a really safe small town or nice suburb.


For a pizza chain, Domino’s actually has a pretty rich history of innovation. It’s embraced social media, created a one-click Easy Order button and even built a delivery car that has its own pizza oven. Now it’s looking at robots. More specifically: delivery robots. What you see here is DRU (Domino’s Robotic Unit), an autonomous delivery vehicle built in collaboration with Australian technology startup Marathon Targets that Domino’s says is the first of its kind. It’s filled with thousands of dollars worth of military robotics tech, but its covert mission has been to deliver fresh pizza to the residents of Queensland.

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Mar 18, 2016

Antimatter to ion drives: NASA’s plans for deep space propulsion

Posted by in category: space travel

Where science fiction becomes science fact.

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Mar 18, 2016

Army Sees Lasers, Hoverbikes and Nano Drones in Future Force

Posted by in categories: drones, futurism

A technology official described her pursuit of a future force that includes high-powered lasers a self sustaining combat outposts.

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Mar 18, 2016

New Dark Matter Theory Weighs Superheavy Particle

Posted by in categories: particle physics, space

Dark matter could be made of particles that each weigh almost as much as a human cell and are nearly dense enough to become miniature black holes, new research suggests.

While dark matter is thought to make up five-sixths of all matter in the universe, scientists don’t know what this strange stuff is made of. True to its name, dark matter is invisible — it does not emit, reflect or even block light. As a result, dark matter can currently be studied only through its gravitational effects on normal matter. The nature of dark matter is currently one of the greatest mysteries in science.

If dark matter is made of such superheavy particles, astronomers could detect evidence of them in the afterglow of the Big Bang, the authors of a new research study said. [Dark Matter Explained (Infographic)].

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Mar 17, 2016

Scientists closer to CLONING T-Rex after discovering remains of pregnant dinosaur

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

SCIENTISTS are one step closer to cloning dinosaurs after the discovering the remains of a Tyrannosaurus rex that was pregnant when it died.

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Mar 17, 2016

Supercomputer simulates whole-body blood flow

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, physics, supercomputing

Physicists say a supercomputer simulation of blood flow around the entire human body is showing promise, based on an experimental test.

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Mar 17, 2016

CNET On Cars — Road to the Future- Airless tires

Posted by in categories: innovation, transportation

CNET On Cars — Road to the Future- Airless tires.

More Videos by Crazy Inventions.

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Mar 17, 2016

Beer Pong Robot

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Meet the beer pong playing robot that can grab almost anything.

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Mar 17, 2016

Sony Interactive Table

Posted by in category: futurism

Sony’s interactive tabletop is straight out of Minority Report…

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Mar 17, 2016

Army researchers explore future rotorcraft technologies

Posted by in category: military

By David McNally, ARL Public Affairs.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (March 17, 2016) — The U.S. Army is moving ahead with research on potential new component-level technologies for future rotorcraft.

A team from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory completed the first-ever live-fire test of a rotor blade with individual blade control technology in mid-January.

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