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Cake launches the Makka, a $3,500 electric moped for city riding

Swedish electric motorcycle manufacturer Cake has released its newest vehicle, the Makka, a super lightweight e-moped that’s built for urban convenience. The bike starts at $3,500 and is now ava

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The United States is facing a COVID-19 summer surge

FILE PIC: A COVID patient in being wheeled from an ambulance in the United States. /Xinhua The United States is facing a COVID-19 surge this summer as the more contagious delta variant spreads

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Zero’s FXE offers electric motorcycle fun in a slightly new package

Zero Motorcycles has been around for over a decade and in that time it’s consistently improved its fleet of electric bikes. With the new FXE, the northern California company has taken the thoroughly e

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Last-mile, landscaping and leaping robots

I spoke to Refraction AI co-founder/CTO Matthew Johnson-Roberson on the occasion of the Michigan startup’s $4.2 million seed raise. This week we posted a QA where he answers a wider range of topics ab

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Refraction AI’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson on finding the middle path to robotic delivery

Refraction AI calls itself the Goldilocks of robotic delivery. The Ann Arbor-based company, which recently raised a $4.2 million seed round and expanded operations to Austin, was founded by two Univer

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Perseverance rover captures sound of Ingenuity flying on Mars

The Mars Ingenuity helicopter on the surface of Mars, April 29, 2021. /CFP NASA's Perseverance rover has for the first time captured the low-pitched whirring of the Ingenuity helicopter's blad

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Supply struggle puts brakes on U.S. manufacturing growth in April

A worker drains a gear box for a three-wheeled electric fun utility vehicle in Oregon, U.S., April 19, 2021. /CFP Restrained by shortages of inputs, manufacturing activity in the U.S. grew at

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The ANYmal inspection robot gives Spot some four-legged competition

We’ve covered Swiss robotics company ANYbotics with some regularity over the years. The company has offered its own take on the quadrupedal robotics space that has, naturally, drawn comparisons to Bos

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Vietnamese electric motorbike startup Dat Bike raises $2.6M led by Jungle Ventures

Son Nguyen, founder and chief executive officer of Dat BikeDat Bike, a Vietnamese startup with ambitions to become the top electric motorbike company in Southeast Asia, has raised $2.6 million in pre-

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Hyundai shrinks its ‘walking car’ robot to carry cargo, get rides from drones

Hyundai Motor Group is back with a new “walking car” robot that can use its wheels to roll along a path or stand up and navigate tougher terrain on its legs. This time, the concept is desi

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US Navy intercepts intercontinental missile over Pacific for first time

A second missile launched from a US warship was able to intercept the ICBM and destroy it before it reached its target.

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Ride Vision raises $7M for its AI-based motorcycle safety system

Ride Vision, an Israeli startup that is building an AI-driven safety system to prevent motorcycle collisions, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round led by crowdsourcing platfo

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U.S states start to buckle under new pandemic surge

01:35 The U.S. is beginning to buckle under record COVID-19 cases.As the total number of infectionsapproaches 10.3million in the U.S., mobile morguesin some statesare once again being

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Bipedal robot developer Agility announces $20M raise

Agility, the Oregon State University spinoff behind Digit and Cassie, announced this morning that it has raised $20 million in funding. The latest round, led by DCVC and Playground Global, brings the

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Spacebit books a second trip to the Moon via NASA’s commercial lunar payload program

UK-based robotic rover startup Spacebit has booked a second payload delivery to the Moon, aboard the Nova-C lander that Intuitive Machines is planning to send in 2021 as part of NASA’s Commerci

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Canada authorizes remdesivir to treat patients of severe COVID-19

A patient wearing a face mask is wheeled out from an ambulance to a hospital in Toronto, Canada, on June 18, 2020. (Photo by Zou Zheng/Xinhua)Remdesivir is the first dr

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Amazon’s Scout robot deliveries expand to additional cities in Georgia and Tennessee

One thing’s for certain about Amazon’s Scout robot: it’s as much of a brand ambassador as it is an experiment in the future of last mile delivery. After debuting early last year, the company has limit