Maybe it’s time to say goodbye to the jet pack. For a long while now, when someone mentioned “personal flying machines,” the image that came to mind was of people wearing devices powered by small, but ...

Have you ever wanted to own your own flying car, hoverboard, or Jetpack? Well now you can! That statement may sound like an ad, but it isn't! You can actually go out and buy one of these flying ...

Personal flying vehicles, once a sci-fi dream, are now a luxury reality. These electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) ...

A giant egg equipped with rotors and "Transformers"-style robots are among some of the creative designs submitted in a $2 million dollar contest to dream up new ways of flying. A giant egg equipped ...

The setup would let you charge your own vertical take-off and landing vehicle in the trunk while you drive -- though it would all cost you almost $300,000. If you've been wrestling with how to bring ...

Have you ever imagined what personal flying could look like in the near future? China's Zhiyuan Research Institute, based in Hangzhou, is bringing that vision closer to reality. They just unveiled ...

Being is trying to be cheap and get a deal. If they were serious about this they would have something like an x prize, 10 mil (to start), proper milestones and some serious competition going. It seems ...

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It’s definitely more than meets the eye, as a team in Germany has connected 16 small, battery-powered propellers together to form the “E-Volo Multicopter”—described as “an innovative, vertically ...

Everybody dreams of flying. Leonardo da Vinci sketched dozens of prototypes for flying machines based on the anatomy of birds. The Wright brothers finally worked out the details four centuries later.

Artificial intelligence has exploded across our news feeds, with ChatGPT and related AI technologies becoming the focus of broad public scrutiny. Beyond popular chatbots, biologists are finding ways ...