Often touted as the next digital shift, the metaverse comprises three-dimensional online spaces where people can work, shop, play games, go to concerts and so on. Michelle Quinn on what the metaverse is or might be.
In the race to put fully autonomous vehicles on the road, commercial trucks that drive themselves may be pulling ahead of self-driving cars. Michelle Quinn reports
A mechanical engineering professor at the University of Texas at Austin is creating robots that are not visible to the naked eye with the goal that one day they will work as an autonomous team treating tumors in the human body. Deana Mitchell has the story
A Florida company is providing universities across the country access to its specially modified Boeing airplane where they’re conducting groundbreaking research in a zero-gravity environment. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more. Camera: Paul Gramaglia, Zero-G, Skype, Zoom, Producer: Adam Greenbaum
Satellite imagery and underwater robotics are among the technologies that played a crucial role in the recent discovery of the Endurance, renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship that sank in frozen Antarctic waters in 1915. VOA’s Julie Taboh has more.