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A behemoth from the heroic age of power engineering stirs to life in the New York City subway’s Substation 13

Rotating magnetic fields precisely steer the nanomachines, tracing letters in cytoplasm

Mistake sparks public outrage at Samsung and securities industry

A drone combined with a HoloLens can simulate X-ray vision while offering easy and intuitive control

Unlike the lidars promised by most startups, Luminar's steers the laser beam with good, old-fashioned moving parts

2D materials produce a semi-floating gate memory that falls somewhere between DRAM and SRAM

Confusion and erratic enforcement at the US communications agency is sending satellite makers abroad

IBM aims to boost quantum computing startups, but warns of a “long revenue desert”

Hundreds of robotics events are taking place all over the country this week

The zinc yarn battery works when knotted, stretched, cut, and washed

Salt Lake City and New York City will provide city-wide testing facilities for 5G

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

By artificially replicating the neural firing involved in correct memory formation, researchers improved memory by 35 percent

New technology puts the equivalent of a solar cell under each pixel

IBM’s nanomotor can sort and separate nanoparticles, could be lab-on-a-chip game-changer

There are many things that set such a group apart from its peers, including the depth and breadth of available options for the insured and also their family members.

Cameras that see light polarization patterns can provide a GPS substitute under the sea

Networks must deal with tight latency constraints while keeping energy consumption in check.

One tethered, autonomous aerostat flying at 250 meters can provide as much coverage as 20 or 30 cell towers

This little robot listens to what goes on in your life and helps to keep you connected with your friends

The largest study of robot faces we've ever seen shows the right way to design an expressive robot

An implant that goes in without surgery could help make “electroceuticals” a reality

After taking over deliveries for 20 percent of rural Rwanda's blood supply, Zipline is introducing its drone fleet to the rural United States

When we ask robots to do things, should they do what we say, or what we mean?

Graphics processors are on a supercharged development path that eclipses Moore’s Law, says Nvidia’s Jensen Huang

A coding error in new intelligent deposit machines failed to report 53,506 suspicious transactions

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Projecting light onto the ground makes a bicyclist easy to spot

Seniors in Minneapolis pilot a virtual reality program for wellness

A great disconnect looms between the EV future and the gas-guzzling present

Front wheel drive that feels like all-wheel drive

Atomically thin membranes enable nanoresonators to achieve extraordinalry wide dynamic range for tiny machines

Nvidia CEO says making autonomous vehicles safe is hard—and more testing should be done in VR

Right now, it’s the self-driving champion of the world

This boxy hybrid sculpts the air

Wearable stomach monitor could help salvage a technology largely abandoned by gastroenterologists

The best-selling EV gets more range and power

A dream EV—if it can exit “production hell”

The lower body support system uses pneumatic muscles to help you carve harder for longer

Accelerates as fast as a falling anvil

This drag monster gives NASA-quality launches