A Japanese team is testing a small prototype space elevator, according to news reports. It’s certainly not the fantastical, many-kilometer-long cable of science fiction, but it demonstrates that at ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding Division contractors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) conduct phase 2 testing on a lower stage weapons elevator on Feb.

In a pilot program, robots will transport spare parts and other material to elevator maintenance job sites. The company says cloud-based driverless systems could form complete supply and logistics ...

In Bristol, Conn., just a 9 iron from the campus headquarters of ESPN, in a valley near a historic amusement park, a strange white tower is the only building sticking up into the sky. Hawks nest in ...

At the eastern edge of Germany’s Black Forest, just outside the medieval town of Rottweil, a peculiar structure — a skyscraper where nobody lives — dominates the land. It’s called TK Elevator Testturm ...

Kevin Lavallee, CEO of TK Elevators' North American operations, stands at the top of the company's new elevator testing facility, Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021, that towers over the Atlanta Braves stadium ...

Aprivate group has taken one small step toward the prospect of building afuturistic space elevator. LiftPort Group Inc., of Bremerton, Washington, hassuccessfully tested a robot climber - a novel ...

Progress with Elon Musk’s Boring Company seems to be moving quickly. The Telsa CEO has shared a video of the company testing car elevators that will be used in a high-tech network of underground ...

Demand for SoC testing equipment seems to have bottomed out, and new packaging approaches should improve industry demand for semiconductor testing equipment. Xcerra has been expanding its product ...

Two tiny satellites are on their way to the International Space Station. What makes them different is that they will be tied together by a 32-foot long steel cable. And it’s the first step towards ...