Sep. 14 - The annual four-day WIRED NextFest festival, held this year in Los Angeles, aims to provide a realistic view of the future through innovative products and technologies. Some 160 interactive exhibits were on display at this year's WIRED NextFest. Among the trends for 2007 are robotics that are becoming more lifelike. The Google ...

Crossposted from advancednano Some people have said that the Google Lunar Xprize cannot be won I think winning the prize is doable. Note: the people (Spaceshipone) and teams who tried to win the last xprize collectively spent more than the prize amount. The winners alone spent 2.5 times the prize the amount. $10 million to get to orbit with a ...

NASA has plans of their own that mirror the goals of the GLXP, although without the cost innovations in mind. As a sidenote, NASA has some competitions of their own, allied with various organizations, including the X Prize Foundation.

Vision Announcement Highlights September 13, 2007 – The X PRIZE Foundation and Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon to win a remarkable $30 million prize purse. Private companies from around the world will compete to land a privately funded robotic rover on the Moon that is ...