The quest for a real life tractor beam continues, with a 2-micrometer-thick silicon light bender. The silicon metasurface changes a solid beam into a triple spiral one that can pick up particles.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic impression of the Electrostatic Tractor during an Earth encounter. (CREDIT: Fabio Annecchini & Dario Izzo) A dead ...

Do-it-yourselfers have made everything from bamboo bicycles to 3-D printers, but nothing as ambitious as the Open Source Ecology project. On a... Building A Village Starts With Building The Tractor Do ...

Scientists are working on bringing a tractor beam from science fiction to reality. The researchers are planning to use beams of electrons to create opposite charges and attract object to the beam for ...

Carbon Robotics launched the autonomous robot tractor, the Carbon AutoTractor, in 2025. The vehicle is powered by Carbon AI and it is installed on existing tractors. The AutoTractor is remotely ...

Every Wednesday at noon at JUMP, Rob Bearden tours visitors through the community center’s collection of over 50 tractors. On March 9, children from a local charter school were running around on the ...

Do-it-yourselfers have made everything from bamboo bicycles to 3-D printers, but nothing as ambitious as what's happening on a farm in northwest Missouri where tractors and other industrial machines ...