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The world running on wind, sunlight, and hydropower—championed by Stanford's Mark Jacobson—has captured the public imagination, but it faces a fierce attack from 21 climate and power-grid experts

For the first time since 1996, the U.S. holds none of the world's top three supercomputers. An upgraded Swiss machine takes third

A team of ETH Zurich undergrads has created an innovative hexcopter that can move and turn in any direction

With massive MIMO, future 5G networks will be able to cram more data onto the same amount of spectrum

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

BRASTER had contracted with a product design company in the Netherlands to source a camera module that met their quality requirements. But nobody was able to move fast enough—that’s when Avnet stepped in.

Engineers have found a way to save space and power by quickly redesigning microcontrollers to strip them of unused logic gates

An experiment by South Korean researchers can be scaled up to detect radiation kilometers away from source

Record distance for quantum entanglement set at more than 1,200 km

Silicon Valley’s top employers made big staffing changes, according to Silicon Valley Business Journal

Videos: Five weird biomedical robots from IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

Georgia Tech's Shimon has analyzed thousands of songs and millions of music clips and can now compose completely original music

Dynamic charging may also benefit mobile devices, medical implants

Students in Stanford’s experimental robotics class teach industrial robots new tricks

Clever little cubes automate robotic craft projects for kids

Affectiva’s Rana El-Kaliouby says our devices need to get a lot more emotionally intelligent

At the intersection of two challenging computational and technological problems may lie the key to better understanding and manipulating quantum randomness

When teams of humans row boats, they all sync up, but robots are testing whether that's really the fastest way to go

Researchers have now demonstrated that a single layer of a 2D material can exhibit an intrinsic magnetism all on its own

Instant photo sharing celebrates its 20th birthday today, proving that building a prototype when your wife is in labor is sometimes a good idea

The human neocortex learns and recognizes new songs with amazing efficiency. See how it works

Researchers publish taxonomy of trolls, sybils, and other online troublemakers

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

This octocopter uses hybrid gasoline-electric propulsion to fly two people 110 miles on a single tank.

The Pied Piper of Silicon Valley's fictional quest to reinvent the Internet trails MaidSafe's and the University of Michigan's progress

The Japanese telecom giant picks up two of the most talented and innovative robotics companies in the world

Georgia Tech's Miniature Autonomous Blimp can recognize and follow humans, and it's gentle enough to fly in your home

If machine learning systems can be taught using simulated data from Grand Theft Auto V instead of data annotated by humans, we could get to reliable vehicle autonomy much faster

DeepMind's training data set of 300,000 YouTube clips finds AI struggles to recognize actions such as eating doughnuts or face-planting

Senate Bill 2658 sheds light on how at least some people wanted to regulate drones

A machine-learning algorithm picked up differences in brain connections in kids as young as six months old

A laser-based light source that earned its inventors the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics could prevent future bottlenecks on vital fiber-optic Internet links.

With the ability to both increase and decrease the capacitance of magnetic tunneling junctions, spintronics will never be the same

With a solid-fuel rocket and internal gyro stabilizer, this little robot can make a highly targeted long-distance leap

Graphene sheets could replace gallium arsenide and aluminum gallium arsenide in quantum Hall effect ohm standard

Nannycams? So yesterday. Startup Lighthouse's computer vision and AI will tell you everything you miss when you’re not home

Reading out 100 words per minute from the brain? Yes, Facebook knows it's ambitious

Adversarial grasping helps robots learn better ways of picking up and holding onto objects

IBM says their stacked nanosheet transistors will give circuit designers more flexibility

AI experts hunt for the secrets of intelligence in 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue

The best robot videos of the week, ICRA edition

Neuroscience will give us what we’ve sought for decades: computers that think like we do

Detecting and modifying the spins of electrons on a 2-D material's surface could enable quantum computing and data storage

Why the merger of the Raspberry Pi and CoderDojo foundations makes sense—and why it doesn’t

Leaders of major tech companies say they have good reason to stay the course—even if the federal government won't

Machines won’t become intelligent unless they incorporate certain features of the human brain. Here are three of them