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XPrize and IBM announce a $5 million AI competition

Posted in Business on 17th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller

This time XPrize is allowing teams to define their own AI challenges.

Xprize with $7M in prizes to map the ocean floor with robots

Posted in Featured, Hardware on 16th Dec, 2015
by Alex Muller

"Ninety-five percent of the deep sea remains a mystery to us; We have better maps of the surface of Mars than we do of our own seafloor."

Israeli Google Lunar X Prize team books rocket

Posted in Science on 7th Oct, 2015
by Alex Muller

SpaceIL intends to go to the lunar surface with a hopping probe in the second half of 2017, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to send it on its way.

Startups are rocketing to the front of the space race

Posted in Business on 3rd Aug, 2015
by Alex Muller

Capitalizing on the falling cost of launches and the miniaturization of satellites, startups are gearing up for the new space race under the moniker of NewSpace.

XPRIZE Contender Astrobotic Strives To Be FedEx To The Moon

Posted in Science on 20th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller

Astrobotic Technology, a leading Google Lunar XPRIZE competitor, is setting up to become the first delivery service to the Moon.