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We've seen a few devices designed to give firefighters an idea of the interior layout of a burning building, including the SmokeBot. But once they're inside, smoke may prevent first responders from being able to see where they're going. The Haptic Helmet from Carnegie Mellon University's Engineering...

Google is no stranger to reproducing historical sites online, but it's now pushing technical boundaries to recreate those sites at risk of vanishing due to the...

The robot can bring food out to customers.

The ROS 2-based Apex.OS platform is now available from Apex.AI. The startup's CEO explains how self-driving car software developers will benefit.

Although robotic surgery was first approved by the FDA back in 2000, it took time for surgeons to embrace the technology. But embrace it they did, and today robots are

Over the weekend, local student engineers had the chance to compete in a friendly challenge with their robots.

Peta wants to put Punxsutawney Phil out of business.

Spider-Man will soar over Disneyland's Avengers Campus in summer of 2020, DisneyParks announced, despite an ongoing dispute over the film version of the charact...

A new study suggests human-to-human transmission of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) may have started as early as mid December, 2019…

Researchers have developed a new kind of wing that could dramatically improve the performance of small drones. Inspired by birds and insects, the wing has a leading edge that, as counterintuitive as it may seem, actually causes turbulence.

It may sound dramatic, but antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it's urgent t...

Building your own self-balancing robot is a rite of passage for anyone getting into the field of robotics. Master of robots, [James Bruton] has been there, done that, and collected a few T-shirts. …

Researchers used robotic kayaks to track meltwater and discovered that massive tidewater glaciers may be melting a lot faster than anyone thought.

Tactile Telerobot integrates three primary products into its system: Shadow Robot Hands, SynTouch BioTac sensors, and HaptX Gloves.

Researchers recently resurrected the "voice" of an ancient priest for the first time since his death over 3,000 years ago. Called Nesyamun, he lived during the...

Repeat after me: sweaty soft robot hands keep cool

Mother of God, this thing can walk.

It was just last November that we heard how a group of companies used a hydrogen fuel cell drone to deliver medical samples across a 43-mile (69-km) stretch of ocean. Now, some of the same players are planning to use the same drone for long-distance pipeline inspections.

IBM is using its AI-based health prediction skills to help tackle the challenge of Huntington's disease. The tech firm has teamed up with CHDI Foundation on an...

A 3D printing system that controls the behavior of live bacteria could someday enable medical devices with therapeutic agents built in.

At a facility near Berlin, a new kind of robot is automating tasks that until recently had been out of the reach of machines.

Atari doesn't have the cultural cachet it used to. After an industry-crashing downfall in the '80s, the video game pioneer has been unable to find its niche, an...

The SherpaTT is an autonomous, hybrid wheeled-leg system hardware type rover that is characterized by its four legs with attached wheels at the end. This system allows SherpaTT to walk and drive over different complex terrain.

Although augmented reality (AR) glasses are potentially very useful, they can also be awkward to wear and sometimes kind of funny-looking. California-based startup Mojo Vision is developing a sleeker, less-dorky alternative, in the form of an AR contact lens.