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Teams of small quadrotors use just a camera and IMU to help each other transport cargo

Immigrant engineers create jobs, they don’t take them from U.S. citizens, CES panelists say

Learn about new drones, smart home gadgets, and mesh networks in this live broadcast from the CES show floor

Spinning buckets are giving way to small, cheap, distributed laser sensors

Autonomous luggage, personal airbags, and a machine that folds clothes caught this reporter's attention

At CES, product engineer Ali Aboosaidi talks about audio/video trends and compatibility between smart devices

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

GM's Cruise claims that by 2019, it'll offer rides in a car that has no steering wheel or pedals

Checking in on Savioke’s Relay robots in Las Vegas—not on the CES floor, but at the Renaissance Hotel, where they are hard at work

Move over solar, Zero Mass Water thinks there’s room on the roof for a new kind of panel—one that creates water from sun and air

A process for eliminating impurities from CNTs provides a method for measuring their electrical resistance

Sensors installed along China’s South-to-North Water Diversion Project track water quality, watch for intruders, and detect structural damage

From the creators of Sphero, this robot is designed to allow non-robotics programmers to create useful applications

These nanotweezers can move through liquids to pick up and release nanoscale particles

A remote pilot drives a Lincoln MKZ past Vegas casinos from his desk in Mountain View

Autonomous vehicles, voice-controlled everything, robotics, and virtual reality will be transformed by next-generation cellular

Samsung, LG, Panasonic, and TCL look to better processors and AI to move TV tech forward in 2018

Companies are eager to push forward with their plans following the release of the first 5G standard

Young company developing portable diagnostics gets regulatory approval for its first test

Intel's partner, Volocopter, provided its multicopter and flew it by remote control in a hangar—a baby step, but still, a first step

U.S. Customs', Canada’s Phoenix payroll's, and Rhode Island’s UHIP benefit system's recurring problems welcome in 2018

It's one of the shiniest, fanciest, and most technologically advanced telepresence robots we've ever seen

A handheld controller that lets you feel specific directional forces can now be a wheel, a weapon, and more

Intel's new superconducting quantum chip called Tangle Lake has enough qubits to make things very interesting from a scientific standpoint

Open-frame chokes suppress noise in switch-mode power supplies, LED supplies and electronic ballasts, while saving valuable space and simplifying the bill of materials.

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab's Dragonfly is a finalist for a NASA mission to Titan in the 2020s

A new ingestable capsule may also make it easier for doctors to diagnose gut disorders

Byton promises 2019 deliveries in the shadow of stalled vehicles from Lucid Motors and Faraday Future

These gadgets being launched at CES aren’t going to change the world, but I’m still eager to check them out

Home and office users will reap the benefits of smarter connected devices at the 2018 CES

The IEEE Spectrum team on the hottest gadgets and technology trends

A dozen intriguing tech projects to look for in the coming year

The glass arcs that will let astronomers peer back millions of years are decades in the making

The elephant’s new protector is PAWS, a machine-⁠learning and game-theory system that predicts where poachers are likely to strike

Oak Ridge’s 200-petaflop Summit supercomputer will come on line in mid-2018

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

Georgia Tech spin-off SoftWear Automation is developing ultrafast sewing robots that could upend the clothing industry

Randomness makes some computations simpler, now it can be done in a single MRAM-like device

This long-awaited technology will extend the life of Moore’s Law

They're big, they're shiny, they're charmingly round-ish, but are they actually useful?

A startup called Amber will deploy truly driverless cars this year—but they’ll move only by night

Berkeley students find it’s hard to fix society’s big problems with technology, but tech is not a bad place to start

The oil state readies the Arabian Peninsula’s first nuclear power plant

Researchers in Austria came up with a countermeasure before they even knew the attack existed

Many attempts to mine cryptocurrencies for charity have failed, but Bail Bloc hopes its approach is different

Neurable’s brain-scanning headband brings hands-free control to virtual reality entertainment