Satellite repair droids

What is it? A technology that connects mobile phones to satellites so they can make calls and browse the internet. It can provide a signal in remote areas where phone masts don’t reach. How does it wo

There were many eye-catching elements in China’s Victory Day Parade in Beijing on 3 September, not least the sight of Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un flanking Xi Jinping

On 21 August, in the dead of night, a mysterious spacecraft launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The craft in question was the eerily named X-37B – an experimental and highly secretiv

ROBOTAXIS ARE THE MOST THRILLING promise of our driverless future! Who wants to be driven home by a human who actually knows where they're going, when they could instead put their fate in a faceless a

ONE AFTERNOON THIS SPRING, Mykhailo Fedorov, a minister in the wartime government of Ukraine, turned up the volume on his laptop and played a video to illustrate his latest innovation. Its purpose, he

Jon Bentley wonders whether the company’s eternal promise of fully self-driving cars is finally about to shift into gear