A proverbial bomb dropped on Tesla last year after CTO and co-founder JB Straubel revealed he was moving into an advisory role and walking away from his day-to-day duties within the company. Although Straubel told investors in his final earnings call that he was not “disappearing” from Tesla, after his departure he stayed notably under…
Self-driving cars may still be a distant dream despite massive progress in the last few years, but automated aircraft carrying cargo and passengers may soon be a possibility. Former Tesla and SpaceX employees have built an automated system that can carry cargo without a hitch. The start-up, Reliable Robotics, founded in 2017 by engineers who…
The weather conditions at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station were poor all day, as a reinforcing low pressure system crossed the Florida peninsula on Sunday. There had been occasional rain and plenty of lightning. SpaceX had already cancelled one launch out of Florida by mid-morning, a flight carrying five hundred Starlink satellites. But the company…
Rock-climb without fear. Play a symphony in your head. See radar with superhuman vision. Discover the nature of consciousness. Cure blindness, paralysis, deafness, and mental illness. Those are just a few of the applications that Elon Musk and employees at his four-year-old neuroscience company Neuralink believe electronic brain-computer interfaces will one day bring about. None…
Self-driving cars are as fascinating as they are challenging to develop. The sensors, compute, actuation all need to continuously work together to understand the surrounding environment and respond in real-time. And when it all works as expected, we will save lives and change society for the better. Back in 2013, Tesla, while still struggling, decided to…
This week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk heads to Germany to see the Giga Berlin production facility. On his visit to Europe, Musk has more on his agenda including a visit to CureVac to talk about COVID-19 vaccines. On August 30th, Musk announced on Twitter that he will go to Germany to see Giga Berlin. But…
If you drive a Tesla today, you can thank the Tesla Roadster for making it possible. Tesla’s first car needed to be an exclusive (albeit pricey) limited-production sports car. Auto manufacturing relies on high-volume production to keep costs low, but it takes a lot of cash to build the factories needed to build high-volume cars….
While Musk does not authorize such projects himself, it does not deter people from dreaming of a different Tesla universe, often just to carry on with the legacy. This time, Tesla’s and Space X’s work has motivated exterior automotive designer Alex Baldini Imnadze to create a concept could be used on the moon. What are…
SpaceX plans to launch three rockets on Sunday, including two back-to-back Falcon 9 launches in Florida and, if weather permits, a Starship test flight in Texas. The aerospace firm said they plan to launch their twelfth Starlink mission at 10:12 a.m. EST sending 60 Starlinks into orbit from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The…
Tesla China has released a new video showing inside of the plant. The robots are continually manufacturing new vehicles of superior quality to satisfy their customers growing demand for the Shanghai-made Model 3. This video shows that Giga Shanghai’s production line is set up very efficiently and this in turn has a great effect on…