In 2013, Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, proposed a new way to get around. He told PandoDaily, "We've got planes, trains, automobiles and boats for getting around earth. But what if there was ...

A team of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has won SpaceX’s inaugural Hyperloop pod design competition. They defeated more than 100 other university teams with their ...

A team from MIT won the best overall design award in the first round of the Hyperloop pod design contest, held last weekend at Texas A&M University. About 120 teams participated in the event. MIT ...

It’s been a big week for hyperloops. On Friday, a team of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled the first public prototype hyperloop pod. The reveal came just two days after ...

Rendering of the winning conceptual design for a Hyperloop pod by a team of MIT students (all images courtesy MIT) In 2013, tech billionaire and “real life Iron Man” Elon Musk first proposed his ...

It seems like only yesterday that the Hyperloop system was just a gleam in the eye of Elon Musk. Touted as a manner of transportation that could connect cities up to a distance of around 900 miles ...

The first public demonstration of “the hyperloop,” a new propulsion system for high-speed transit, occurred on May 11 in the desert north of Las Vegas. Days later, a team of researchers unveiled a ...

SpaceX Hyperloop Design Weekend closed out today with some clear winners. The massive race to create a pod that will zoom you from point A to point B through a tube in mere minutes instead of hours ...

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Elon Musk's wild Hyperloop has captivated engineers ever since he almost casually mentioned the idea three years ago. After all, who wouldn't want to contribute to a potentially revolutionary ...

In addition to testing reusable rockets, SpaceX is also coming up with innovative ideas that could affect our everyday lives here on the ground. The company recently held a competition where teams ...

About 2 dozen teams of students and engineers are creating hyperloop pods to compete and try to achieve the greatest speed and control on the 1-mile track for the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design ...