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Robot 2 at Boeing Everett plant

Find out what happens when robots team up with humans for Boeing’s 777X

EVERETT, Wash. – Some manufacturing workers may worry that robots will be stealing their jobs, but not Boeing’s Jordan Northrup. He’s… Read More

Kevin McAllister

Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Kevin McAllister heeds lessons from steel-town upbringing

RENTON, Wash. – Six and a half months into his tenure as Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ president and CEO, Kevin McAllister… Read More

Ford autonomous vehicle

Washington governor signs executive order to support autonomous vehicle development

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee wants to ensure that his state is at the forefront of autonomous vehicle development. The governor on… Read More

MightyAI

Mighty AI opening location in Detroit as it focuses its training data service on autonomous vehicles

Mighty AI, the Seattle-based startup that provides training data as a service for computer vision and natural language AI, is “going… Read More

Elon Musk

Tesla CEO Elon Musk touts Semi truck and solar power during freewheeling Q&A

Billionaire Elon Musk’s Q&A sessions are traditionally the most entertaining part of Tesla’s annual shareholders meeting, and this year’s appearance… Read More

Airport laptop

President Trump lays out controversial plan to privatize air traffic control system

President Donald Trump is calling on Congress to turn the nation’s air traffic control system over to a private, non-profit… Read More

New study on Seattle traffic lauds efforts by Amazon, Bill & Melinda Gates and others

Last year, a coalition of Seattle’s top business and political leaders unveiled a new effort called Challenge Seattle, with a goal of finding… Read More

Drones vs. trucks: UW study compares carbon footprints for delivery methods

Delivering items with drones instead of trucks is likely to reduce carbon dioxide emissions for short-range trips, or on routes with… Read More

Amazon works on drone traffic control software at French development center

Amazon has added France to the list of countries where the Seattle-based retailer is working on its drone delivery system, with… Read More

Aerix Drone

Hobbyist defeats FAA in battle over drone registration, but says the fight’s not over

Recreational drone users no longer have to register their flying machines with the Federal Aviation Administration, thanks to a federal court… Read More

Dreamliner dining table

Video: Want to fly like a CEO? Rent Deer Jet’s 787 Dreamliner for $70,000 an hour

Now anybody can fly like a VIP: All you have to do to take Deer Jet’s super-elegant 787 Dreamliner for… Read More

Paine Field passenger terminal

Alaska Airlines plans flights from Everett’s Paine Field to dodge Sea-Tac traffic jam

Bugged by I-5 traffic to Sea-Tac? Alaska Airlines is promising a work-around: The Seattle-based airline says it will start running regularly… Read More

BMW’s ReachNow tests higher price for ride-hailing service, preparing to challenge Uber and Lyft

For the last six months, BMW’s car-sharing service ReachNow has been testing out a new service called Ride that will… Read More

ReachNow installs new BMW electric car chargers on street lamps throughout Seattle

BMW’s car-sharing service, ReachNow, today unveiled the first of more than 100 “Light and Charge” electric vehicle chargers coming to… Read More

Tunnel boring machine

Warning: Elon Musk posts dizzying views of his first tunnel boring tests in L.A.

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, demonstrated once again that he’s serious about boring tunnels beneath Los Angeles. But… Read More

Expedia acquires majority stake in London company seeking to modernize rail travel

Expedia said it has acquired a majority stake in SilverRail, a London based company focused on online booking for train… Read More

Fixed-wing drone

Drone sets a long-distance delivery record

Team Roadrunner, a Nevada-based drone consortium, says it set a record for long-distance drone delivery last week in Texas. The… Read More

Watch: Bertha the Seattle tunnel machine goes under the torch as huge pieces are cut, lifted away

Over the years, Bertha the tunnel machine managed to successfully cut her way beneath Seattle and make room for a new SR 99 highway… Read More

Aeroflot 777 turbulence

27 hurt when Aeroflot 777 jet hits clear air turbulence on Moscow-Bangkok flight

More than two dozen passengers on an Aeroflot Boeing 777 jet reportedly sought medical treatment after a scary run-in with… Read More

Elon Musk Boring Company transit tunnel

Elon Musk digs into his fixation with boring transit tunnels in a non-boring TED talk

When billionaire Elon Musk sat down for a 40-minute TED talk last week in Vancouver, B.C., he could have started… Read More

Waymo family

Waymo opens self-driving car testing in Phoenix – and scores in Uber legal battle

It’s been a good day on the streets and in the courts for Waymo, the driverless-car company that was spun… Read More

520 bridge

30 million trips later, Seattle’s 520 floating bridge turns 1 — and more work is coming to vital corridor

Something about putting up with years of road construction seems to make the time fly when a project is complete… Read More

Uber unveils its flying-car team and aims for a 2020 liftoff in Dallas and Dubai

Uber has been talking about flying cars for months, but today the ride-sharing company fleshed out its plan to become a… Read More

Kitty Hawk Flyer

Flying car? Kitty Hawk’s first working prototype looks more like a flying raft

Kitty Hawk, the hush-hush flying car venture backed by Google billionaire co-founder Larry Page, unveiled the first working prototype of… Read More

Drone delivery

Airbus strikes drone delivery deal with Singapore Post; Skyways trial set for 2018

Airbus Helicopters has partnered with Singapore Post for its Skyways drone delivery project, due to begin trials at the National… Read More

Boeing

Boeing will send layoff notices to hundreds of engineers, and more job cuts lie ahead

The Boeing Co. signaled that hundreds of employees involved in aerospace engineering in Washington state and other locations will be… Read More

Purple pod

SpaceX schedules Hyperloop II contest in August, and UW’s team is in the race

SpaceX’s second Hyperloop competition for student-led teams is coming up in August, with the University of Washington’s crew listed among two… Read More

Uber app

Uber drivers sound alarm over teen rider program, call for additional protections

A new program that allows parents to book Uber rides for their teenagers has some drivers pumping the brakes. Uber… Read More

Tesla Semi design

Elon Musk keeps on truckin’: Tesla to unveil Semi in September, pickup by 2019

Getting the Tesla Model 3 electric car on the road clearly isn’t enough to occupy Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO… Read More

737 MAX 9 takeoff

Boeing’s 737 MAX 9 jet makes first flight

The newest sibling in Boeing’s 737 family, the MAX 9, made its first flight today from the company’s assembly plant… Read More

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