Teleportation! Once researched, players can build a matching pair of teleportation devices...a teleport 'base' which requires power and presumably will be placed at the player's main base, and a teleport 'node', which can be moved freely by the player and has it's own energy cell for power. Having a place to quickly beam to can save lots of walking when you know you want to do a bunch of stuff in a particular area.
Also, the game now has a proper Smelter device for turning ore into refined ingots, replacing the system of using the fabricator to craft ingots. This new sort of 'process batches of items over time' device will probably show up in additional devices in the game eventually.