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Firms are building robots that can survey the seabed and underwater structures without human help.

Watching NASA's RoboSimian robot, a.k.a. "Clyde," exit a vehicle by seamlessly becoming a creepy quadruped never gets old.

Most futurists probably never saw it coming, but there are now several commercially available robots designed to entertain pets while their owners are at work. One of the latest, known as Pumpkii, features a unique modular design.

Israel’s PillCam revolutionized GI imaging, and now others are following that success with other noninvasive solutions that journey through the body.

The Oura Ring has been getting a lot of attention lately because of its role in a number of COVID-19 studies, as well as its adoption by both the NBA and WNBA as a potential tool for helping prevent any outbreaks of the novel coronavirus as those two leagues get back to a regular schedule […]

Google has been giving students — and their parents — a few helpful tools to make studying from home a bit easier. Back in May, it launched an augmented reality feature within Search that lets you view 3D anatomy models and cellular structures. The company is using technology from mobile learning ...

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Robots could be helpful in cleaning up the oil spill that has devastated the coastline of the tiny Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. (See video below.)  Popular with tourists from around the world,…

Think drones are only for outside use? There's a major rethink happening in the sector.

Arizona has what researchers call “the climate of tomorrow, today.” Scientists are using a 30-ton robotic field scanner in the state to study plant genetics and hopefully develop stress-resilient crops. Photo: Jesse Rieser for The Wall Street Journal

A phone case with legs is the accessory your life has been missing

Wireless charging is a step toward a fully "lights out" factory, and the FCC seems to be onboard.

Cities and tech companies need to plan for accessibility early in the design process, include disabled people in solutions, and review the many published accessibility guidelines.

Lucid Air has achieved a Holy Grail of EV technology—an electric car that sneers at "range anxiety"

Using machine-learning, AutoFoley determines what actions are taking place in a video clip and creates realistic sound effects

Google is launching a handful of new Android features today that don’t really have a lot in common but that are all interesting in their own right. There are updates to Android Auto and Android’s emergency location service, new accessibility features thanks to an updated Lookout app, and the promise...

Switch has developed Switch Sentry security robots to deploy at future edge data centers and enterprise sites. Robots could be an important tool to solve challenges in data center management, as well as contactless commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In recent years, researchers have developed a growing amount of computational techniques to enable human-like capabilities in robots. Most techniques developed so far, however, merely focus on artificially ...

A science teacher is taking the classroom – and a robot – to the mountains to bridge Peru’s education gaps.

One hospitality think tank is out with four bold new hotel concepts—robots included

As humans avoid interaction, workplace robots step in.

Creating robots with emotional personalities will transform the usability of robots in the real-world. As previous emotive social robots are mostly based on statically stable robots whose mobility is limited, this work develops an animation to real-world pipeline that enables dynamic bipedal robots ...

Gaumard has developed humanoid simulators that can mimic vital signs and symptoms for training medical personnel on real equipment.

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning allows drone swarms to accomplish missions while minimizing performance uncertainty on the battlefield.