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The universe can welcome yet another entrant into the space race, and yet another company into Richard Branson’s portfolio.. TechCrunch has learned that Branson’s Virgin Orbit has quietly created VOX Space, a wholly owned subsidiary of its space freight business, that will focus on servicing government contracts from the U.S. …

NASA built 4 six-foot, 290-pound, Iron man-like pieces of equipment named Valkyrie, at the cost of about $2 million each, and after that outsourced three of them to universities to test the robotic’s capabilities in various hostile environments.In 2015 Northeastern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Scotland’s University of Edinburgh …

Yamaha has just put a humanoid robot on among its bikes and pitted it versus Valentino Rossi, a professional rider. The robot didn’t win, however it’s remarkable that it might ride at all.Feast your eyes: What’s striking is that the bike is unmodified: the robot is a hunched-over type on …

Buying the Future: Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia and the Virgin Group have revealed a partnership in which the previous means to invest$ 1 billion in Virgin Galactic, in addition to its side business, The Spaceship Company and Virgin Orbit.The Public Mutual Fund (PIF) of Saudi Arabia and Virgin Group signed …

There’s no doubt that the competition to develop self-driving cars is hotting up. There are over 1 billion cars, trucks and buses on the planet, and that’s not even including off-road vehicles or heavy construction equipment, many of which could be turned into ‘ground drones’ in the future. This is …

Toyota is very invested in love. The automaker has a central philosophy of making vehicles that inspire ‘Aisha,’ a concept that literally means “beloved car” in Japanese. But the nature of ‘Aisha’ is changing, necessarily, just at the nature of automobiles themselves are fundamentally changing as we usher in automated …

SUVs are on the rise as a category, in many regions but particularly in the U.S., and Toyota’s new TJ Cruiser concept aims to address that growing demand in a way that other vehicles in its lineup doesn’t. Toyota’s TJ Cruiser project lead Mai Takeiuchi explained that Toyota believes that …

Elon Musk is digging a tunnel under Hawthorne near SpaceX headquarters in California, after receiving approval from city council to do so. Musk’s Boring Co. has already made considerable progress on the dig and tunnel build, apparently, as Musk shared an image of the tunnel from the inside showing a …

The ties that bind the tech industry and Hollywood continue to get tighter as the Creative Artists Agency launches a startup studio to develop new businesses with — and for — its roster of clients. Continuing a tradition that began with the incubation and launch of Funny or Die (alongside …

Not every startup journey starts as sweetly as the road co-founders Ishita Prasad and Maya Balakrishnan took to launching their new company, Polymer — but then again, not every startup takes its inspiration from a chocolate factory. Spun out from the wildly successful (and wildly expensive) bean-to-bar San Francisco chocolate …