In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at SpaceX’s five launch week, liberating scientists from lab-borne tedium with AI, how exercise is good for your brain and more. You can sign ...

Meet the creatively named Thor Test Vehicle, a prototype that aims to revolutionize big RVs with a plug-in-hybrid (PHEV) powertrain and much-improved driving dynamics. RVs make excellent ...

We’ve been down this road before. Many times. “Prototype hardware that works in a limited demo is cool, interesting, and fine to comment on,” Phil Koopman, an AV expert from Carnegie Mellon ...

“Having a prototype vehicle says nothing about whether a company has developed the hardware and software necessary to safely operate that vehicle without a human driver,” said Bryant Walker ...

Plus: Building a nuclear reactor in a shipyard, making Spidey’s web fluid in real life and why you should expose your kids to misinformation. A big part of this expense has to do with the ...

For fusion power aficionados, hitting “breakeven” is something of a Holy Grail: the point at which a fusion reaction produces more power than was required to ignite it. Only one scientific ...

At a media event in Japan, we drove a prototype version of Honda's 0 Series EV and learned more details about the production version of the Saloon concept. The 0 Series felt nimble around the ...

Bloomberg cites unnamed "people familiar with the matter" in reporting that Tesla "used humans to remotely control some capabilities" of the prototype robots at the event. The report doesn't ...

A prototype close prototypeAn early or first version of a product being developed. is an early version of a product close productSomething that is made to be bought or sold. that designers make.

A Surface Laptop prototype has appeared in a since-deleted listing on Chinese second-hand marketplace Goofish, complete with what looks like Intel’s Core Ultra 7 268V processor inside.

An extremely rare early prototype of the first Macintosh is coming up for auction later this month. Here’s what makes it so special. This Macintosh prototype, #M0001, is a 1983 build featuring a ...

I didn’t want to love it. My plan for my first Meta Orion AR glasses experience was to dispassionately try them and quickly identify the highlights, shortcomings, and pitfalls of this not-ready ...