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Motional, a Hyundai Motor and Aptiv joint venture, announced the addition of two datasets to the nuScenes autonomous vehicles repository.

China says it has landed a reusable spacecraft after two days in orbit, possibly helping it compete with the US Air Force's X-37B.

Robot dogs emerged from US Air Force planes to secure an airfield last week as the US military conducted one of its largest high-tech experiments ever, in what could be a preview of the future battlefield.

We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace

Startup Seatrec has developed underwater energy harvesting charging stations for monitoring, mining and military drones

Bioservo Technologies uses FAULHABER drives to power its Ironhand soft robotic glove, which is designed to reduce worker strain.

Energy technology has come a long way since the first handheld gaming consoles emerged in the 70s and 80s. As a way of demonstrating these advances and where they might lead us in the future, a team of researchers has built a Game Boy that requires no battery, instead powering itself from a combinat...

SkyDrive’s success in conducting a piloted eVTOL test indicates short-hop flights are close to commercial reality

U.S. Army and University of Michigan researchers have developed an antenna technique enabling small robots to effectively nework.

Scientists have developed electronic skin that reacts to pain like humans, potentially leading to smarter prosthetics and robots.

Fanuc triples output of 'collaborative' models that work alongside humans

Chinese college students use robots in table tennis training - Xinhua | English.news.cn

Can it crawl? Can it climb? Can it roll? Can it skate? Can it draw? Naminukas by [Mykolas Juraitis] can do all of those things, and it is the size of a winter boot. Roving robots generally fall int…

'I am the first adult to make use of [Trexo's] robotic walker,' said Stephanie Debes, 25. 'I was amazed when I took my first steps.'

Charlie Andersen and his team at Burro are helping farmers take the first step to bringing robots onto the farm.

Musk founded the neural tech company in 2016, and says the chip will enable a "symbiosis" between the human brain and AI.

Humanoid robots, those with bodies that resemble humans, could soon help people to complete a wide variety of tasks. Many of the tasks that these robots are designed to complete involve picking up objects ...

Even Robots Know That You Need a Mask

IBM looks to revolutionize industrial chemistry and in the process may have cut the discovery time for Covid-19 treatments in half

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A couple of years ago, we heard how Ford was supplying its assembly plant employees with an assistive exoskeleton called the EksoVest. Now, the maker of that device has unveiled a lighter and limberer but just as capable model.

Molecules are the building blocks of everyday life. Many materials are composed of them, a little like a LEGO model consists of a multitude of different bricks. But while individual LEGO bricks can be ...

For one reason or another, European railroads have never universally adopted semi-automatic knuckle couplers, a technology that revolutionized operations and improved safety on North America railroads generations ago. We take them for granted. But if you think about it, our system is still labor-int...

Engineering couldn’t cure a devastating illness, but it could still help someone cope with it