A robotic suit that lets someone with a spinal-cord injury stand up, look a friend in the eye, or stir a pot on the stove without anyone's help just cleared its biggest hurdle. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency that vets medical devices before they reach the public, has authorized commercial sale of Eve, a personal exoskeleton built by French company Wandercraft.

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Category: Robotics, Engineering

Tags: Robotics, Exoskeleton, Mobility, Wearable

Apple's latest innovation is a live concert venue unlike any other. Located in a decommissioned coal-fired power plant, the new space doubles as a recording and broadcasting studio – complete with a spatial audio setup.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: Apple, London, Studio, Battersea Power Station

This spacious park model "tiny house" really isn't so tiny. Instead, it provides an experience closer to a small cottage on wheels, with a large porch and an open, light-filled interior arranged entirely on one level.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home

The future where humans colonize Mars is fast approaching. A future with self-sustaining biospheres, autonomous rovers, helicopters with rotors that break the sound barrier, and – perhaps – mud houses. Yes, literal houses made out of mud.

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Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Mars, Building and Construction, 3D Printing

Countless fields, from military operations to environmental research, rely heavily on drones. Executing a safe landing is still one of the biggest challenges, especially when conditions are far from perfect.

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Category: Drones, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: Delft University of Technology, Biomimicry, Birds

Bentley revealed back in July that it was working on its first electric car, and you can finally get a good look at the thing.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Electric Vehicles, Bentley, SUV

If you're a wealthy automotive enthusiast who enjoys their time in Miami, this might be your next preferred parking spot.

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Category: Architecture, Engineering

Tags: Skyscrapers, Bugatti, Miami

Saudi Arabia has been quietly building an electric vehicle brand for the last four years, and it's just revealed the first cars from its portfolio. Take a look at the Ceer Exobot sedan and SUV.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Electric Vehicles, Saudi Arabia, SUV, Sedan, Performance

Like something of a squarer Dutch answer to the ageless Airstream, Lume emerged in 2018 with a very stylish aluminum-shelled trailer of its own. Its riveted, rounded-corner Traveler box trailer featured the unique distinction of working as a convertible, using a retractable fabric roof panel to open its cabin to the sky above. With its latest trailer launch, Lume doesn't so much invite the outdoors in as it invites the indoors out, equipping the new Ranger with a complete slide-out kitchen that frees up some extra floor space for a proper WC.

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Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: lume-traveler, Caravan, Camping, trailers, Trailer, dusseldorf-caravan-salon-2026, Outdoors and Camping, RV

There's no denying that cargo trailers are great for transporting your stuff, but they do occupy a lot of garage space. The Faltos trailer offers a solution to that problem, as you can just fold the thing up like an accordion between uses.

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Category: Camping Trailers, Adventure Vehicles, Outdoors

Tags: trailers, Folding

Bye Aerospace's eFlyer 2, a fully electric two-seat trainer, just completed its first test flight over Colorado. The company says the aircraft could cut flight-training costs by as much as 80% compared to conventional combustion-engine trainers – a number worth watching closely, given how badly the industry needs cheaper ways to churn out new pilots.

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Category: Aircraft, Transport

Tags: Electric, Transport, Bye Aerospace, Test Flights, Training

The promotional video for CircuitMess’s new MAKERphone 2.0 kit notes that today, smartphone users depend on their mobile telephones while simultaneously feeling alienated from them. According to CircuitMess, that’s because we don’t understand how smartphones work, given that most of us can’t repair them or even see their components. So, how would our relationship with them change if we built them ourselves?

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Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology

Tags: smartphones, xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, DIY

Researchers in Germany have developed a system for fabricating wood-based floor slabs that can be used in place of traditional reinforced concrete slabs in multi-story building construction. The new slabs are impressively strong, and use only a third of the concrete required in conventional slabs.

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Category: Materials, Engineering

Tags: Construction, Wood, Concrete, University of Stuttgart, Sustainability

Though it's not quite a bona fide glass house, this tiny house comes pretty close. It features a huge amount of glazing, providing an open and light-filled interior that's arranged entirely on one floor, while blinds can be drawn when privacy is required.

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Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors

Tags: Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home, Building and Construction

I don’t think scientists of the last century would have predicted a 125cc mini truck as the modern transportation of tomorrow. But here we are in 2026, and Massimo, a powersports and recreational vehicles manufacturer from Texas, has just created an incredibly retro, incredibly tiny pickup that looks like something straight out of the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids movie.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: Pickup, Truck, MINI, urban transport, Go-kart, karting, Off-road

Friends, I write today with tragic news. A treasured member of the New Atlas team has passed away, and it falls to me to pay some small tribute to a wonderful colleague and a close friend, Joe Salas.

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Category: Remarkable People, Technology

Tags: Deaths, Crazy, New Atlas, xxShowcase

In a world where everyone is downsizing, including car manufacturers making their engines smaller, GM has gone the opposite way. It’s gone on to upgrade the new 2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 with 5.7-liter and 6.6-liter naturally aspirated small-blocks, replacing the 5.3-liter and the 6.2-liter V8s, respectively.

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Category: Automotive, Transport

Tags: GM, General Motors, GMC, Chevrolet, Pickup, Truck

Suspicions of a link between extremely rare congenital infections and the development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been supported by a massive new study led by scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

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Category: Illnesses and conditions, Body and Mind

Tags: Pregnancy, Baby, Infections, toxoplasmosis, Herpes simplex virus, Autism, ADHD

Nearly two years ago, we took a look at the Brio Kitchen Box that was running on Kickstarter at the time. We hadn't heard much about the project since, but then the full-blown production model showed up at Overland Expo Mountain West. Only it wasn't called the Brio – it was rebranded the Chuk Box. Happily, the name seems to be the only major change, as the box brings the same stackable portability and modular performance to car and camp.

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Category: Outdoors

Tags: Camping, Cooking, BRIO, Kitchen, Outdoors and Camping, Picnic, overland-expo-mountain-2026

The US Navy and the Royal Navy have achieved a major milestone in autonomous warfare, successfully launching a US Mk 48 Heavyweight exercise torpedo from the Royal Navy’s robotic submarine, XV Excalibur. The test demonstrates growing autonomous combat capabilities designed to complement conventional crewed platforms.

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Category: Military, Engineering

Tags: US Navy, Royal Navy, Submarine, drones