Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says it has successfully flown its ion plane, the first “solid state” airplane that has no moving parts and does not rely on fossil fuels.

New technology recently developed in France enables six-axis robots to work on moving parts on assembly lines.

Solid state lidar (ie. no moving parts) have existed for quite a few years now. The novelty with this paper is not that it can avoid moving parts, but rather that it can perform beam steering in a ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) says it has successfully flown its ion plane, the first “solid state” airplane that has no moving parts and does not rely on fossil fuels.