Dubai Tests 18-Rotor Drone Taxi

The prototype of an electric self-flying taxi took its first test flight in Dubai.

Sep 26th, 2017

Industrial Media Unboxing Video

Industrial Media Unboxing Video

IEN Unboxed is a new show in which our editors unbox new tools on the market and discuss their features.

Children living in a cocoa-producing village walk back from the fields on the outskirts of the town of Oume, Ivory Coast, on June 30, 2005.

Some Chocolate Has a Dark Side to it: Child Labor

And the industry hasn't committed to put an end to it.

This video image provided by SpaceX, a SpaceX Falcon 9 mission to launch 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E), takes off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif., on Friday, May 13, 2022.

SpaceX Launches Starlink Satellites from California

Starlink brings internet access to underserved areas of the world.

Electric vehicle charging station and car share parking are seen in Auckland, New Zealand, on Aug. 12, 2021. New Zealand will help pay for lower-income families to scrap their old gas guzzlers and replace them with cleaner hybrid or electric cars as part of a sweeping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions the government announced Monday May 16, 2022.

New Zealand to Help Pay for Cleaner Cars to Reduce Emissions

The plan represents a step toward the pledges the nation made under the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change.

Production Ramps Up at Lordstown … For Fisker and Foxconn

Lordstown gets its cash, but might provide competitors an assist in the process.

Visitors cross a suspension bridge for the pedestrians that is the longest such construction in the world shortly after its official opening at a mountain resort in Dolni Morava, Czech Republic, Friday, May 13, 2022. The 721-meter (2,365 feet) long bridge is built at the altitude of more than 1,100 meters above the sea level. It connects two ridges of the mountains up to 95 meters above a valley between them.

Longest Pedestrian Suspension Bridge Opens

Up to 500 people will be allowed to be on the bridge at any one time.

This Feb. 10, 2022, image released by the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance shows Msituni, a giraffe calf born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way, at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido, north of San Diego.

Baby Giraffe Walks Again with Custom Orthotic

It was the company's first animal patient.

Honda's Profit Slides After Chip, Material Cost Problems

The company is cutting costs but acknowledged continuing uncertainty.

For the first time, scientists have used lunar soil collected by long-ago moonwalkers to grow plants, with results promising enough that NASA and others already are envisioning hothouses on the moon for the next generation of lunar explorers.

Scientists Grow Plants in Lunar Dirt, Next Stop Moon

The results stunned researchers.

Gov. Brian Kemp stands next to a Rivian electric truck while announcing the company's plans to build a $5 billion plant east of Atlanta projected to employ 7,500 workers, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Atlanta. Georgia officials could announce a second massive electric vehicle plant to be built by Hyundai near Savannah in coming days.

Hyundai to Set $7B U.S. Plant During Biden Asia Visit

The official stressed though that details of the formal announcement are still being worked out.

Nissan Mulls Third U.S. Auto Plant

The plan would address demand for electric vehicles.

Boeing Jets Delayed At Least a Year

The delay pushes back the aircraft’s delivery to 2024, but it could take longer.