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MIT's Modular Robotic Chain Is Whatever You Want It to Be
A strip of robot modules can be resized and reshaped to form all kinds of different devices and interfaces
Controlling a Hand Exoskeleton With Your Mind
Quadriplegics move hand exoskeletons using brain signals and eye movement, and not just in the lab
Audi Cars Now Talk to Stoplights In Vegas
Easing stoplight angst is just a first taste of what car-to-road communications can do
How a New Middleman Might Help Balance Electricity Grids
Danish island experiments with demand aggregation
A Smart Contact Lens for Eye Injuries
A contact lens uses LCDs and flexible electronics to act as an artificial iris
'Photonic Water' Could Be Boon for Optoelectronic Applications
Researchers discover new property for overlooked 2D material
Semantic Interoperability for Smart Machines with OPC UA
Learn how to quickly connect NI's embedded control and monitoring systems to third party automation components via OPC UA
How to Convert Old Film Reels With a Raspberry Pi
A projector with a Pi-controlled motor and camera can capture frame-by-frame transfers
UC Berkeley's Salto Is the Most Agile Jumping Robot Ever
The secret to agile animals is their ability to make repetitive very high jumps, and Salto is the first robot that can do the same
Four Biomed Tech Game Changers From TEDMED
3D printers and injectable biosensors are among our picks for the best innovations presented last week in California
"Neural Tourniquet" Zaps a Nerve to Stop Bleeding Anywhere in the Body
First clinical trials will take on postpartum hemorrhage in the developing world
Transform Product Development with Easy Access to PLM
Ensuring that product lifecycle stakeholders throughout your organization can access the most accurate, up-to-date product information will benefit all aspects of both the product and the organization itself. But how do these stakeholders – from requirements definition through service and support – get product information in a timely way to begin informing critical decisions today?
Why the Automotive Future Will Be Dominated by Fuel Cells
Range, adaptability, and refueling time will put hydrogen fuel cells ahead of the competition
ARPA-E Under Trump
Some of the work of the U.S. Department of Energy's advanced research wing fits fine with Trump's priorities, but analysts worry the next generation of solar tech could suffer
Germany's Aggressive Switch to Renewables Will Save €149 Billion
The country’s goal of lowering its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent by 2020 is yielding dividends in addition to cleaner air.
Why Ex-Hacker George Hotz is Giving Away Self-Driving Software
Hotz's startup, comma.ai, has given up trying to sell self-driving systems and gone open source
Novel Electrode Structure Provides New Promise for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
Nanotubes encapsulate Li-S electrodes, trapping polysulfides while enhancing conductivity
The Crazy Security Behind the Birth of Zcash, the Inside Story
Zcash, the new anonymous cryptocurrency, was born in a cloak-and-dagger cocoon of digital secrecy. There was just one little problem
Innovation in Transformers: Alternative Fluids on the Rise
7 December 2016 The webinar focuses on the main regulations and characteristics of esters in comparison to conventional mineral oil. The benefits that apply to alternative fluids, like eco-footprint, safety, space limitations and performance will be presented on the basis of several use cases. Technological aspects will be covered as well as operational experiences.
Video Friday: Kengoro the Sweaty Robot, Camera Drone on a Leash, and the Next Frontier in AI
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Startup Says Beaming Millimeter Waves Over the Air Will Make It a Star in Ultra-Fast Wireless Broadband
Following its splashy debut, the Boston startup called Starry has quietly tested millimeter waves to wirelessly deliver broadband Internet service with peak speeds up to 1 gigabit per second
Facebook's H-1B Software Engineer Salaries Climb Six Percent Annually. Google's Go Up Two Percent; Uber's Drop
A new online tool for easy browsing of hardware and software engineer salaries dips into H1B visa data
Why Do Hackers Love to Attack Canada’s Energy Departments?
New statistics reveal the Canadian government's natural resources, energy, and environment agencies were hacked hard in 2016
Graphene-based Antenna Still Looking for Path to Commercialization
It does everything a metal antenna can do and more, but it hasn't been adopted yet
Lights for the Enlightened: An Engineering Trek in the Himalayas
How a band of techie volunteers electrified Lingshed monastery and school
IEEE Smart Village and Its partner Global Himalayan Expedition Bring Solar-Generated Electricity to Lingshed Monastery
It’s just the latest effort in Smart Village’s mission to bring electricity to more than 50 million people by 2025
Deep Learning Startup Maluuba's AI Wants to Talk to You
Maluuba sees reading comprehension and conversation as key to true AI. It's built a new way to train AIs on those skills
The Chirp Heard ‘Round the Universe
Analog Devices and LIGO advance science with amazing solutions
The Man Who Invented VR Goggles 50 Years Too Soon
Hugo Gernsback believed millions yearned for his 3D TV eyeglasses
Robot Gift Guide 2016
A dozen robots that we promise will make fantastic holiday gifts
First Graphene Photodetector To Operate in the Microwave
New photodetector is 100,000 times as sensitive to light as previous graphene photodetectors
Tools for Would-Be Biohackers: Here Come 3 Mini-Labs
These desktop gadgets should make DIY genetic engineering much easier
Can Israeli Start-up Oryx Oust Lidar From Self-Driving Cars?
New sensing tech uses infrared lasers and tiny nanoantennas on a chip
Lego, Crayola, and Others Imagine Autonomous Cars of 2050 in Futuristic Design Challenge
The 2016 LA Auto Show Design Challenge showed some innovative and bizarre concepts for 2050s travel
Germanium Can Take Transistors Where Silicon Can’t
The material inside the first transistors could have a new life at the cutting edge
The Robot Revolution Comes to Synthetic Biology
Automation allows thousands of possibilities when building weird new organisms
Neuroscientists Wirelessly Control the Brain of a Scampering Lab Mouse
With wireless optogenetic tools, neuroscientists steer mice around their cages
Raytheon Sets Phasers to Drone Destruction with Directed Energy Weapon Test
Raytheon's Phaser microwave weapons system can fry swarms of drones at long range
Cheap, Rugged, Sweat-Sensing Skin Patch Hints at Bloodless Testing
A wearable device capable of reading health signs from sweat could become so cheap that it's disposable
Women Encourage Other Women to Lead and Discover Their Inner Entrepreneur
Women Entrepreneurs and Leaders Join Forces to Celebrate Women ’s Entrepreneurship Day in San Francisco
Kenyan Startup Uses the Sun to Turn Human Waste into Cooking Fuel
A Kenyan startup scales up its processing of human waste with a new continuous flow system creating a new fuel stream for cooking
Holiday Gift Guide 2016
Our annual roundup of techie presents for every budget
How Root Wants to Bring Coding to Every Classroom
Root is a programmable robot that solves the main problem with teaching kids to code: it helps grown-ups learn to code too
Why Southern China Broke Up Its Power Grid
An abundance of high-voltage DC makes big AC grids unstable
Indium Selenide Takes on the Mantle of the New Wonder Material
New material ticks all the boxes for future super-fast electronics
Building 8-Bit Bots
An Apple IIe and a Commodore 64 are pressed into service
Japan’s Upgraded Mobile Mapping Technology Aims to Make Autonomous Driving Safer
Mitsubishi Electric to take its new mapping technology overseas
Beyond Touch: Tomorrow’s Devices Will Use MEMS Ultrasound to Hear Your Gestures
Touch screens are on the way out; piezoelectric gesture control is on the way in
Brain Cancer Patients Survive Longer by Sending Electric Fields Through Their Heads
The Optune device is also being tested as a treatment for pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancer
Who’s Hiring? Who’s Firing? Checking in on Tech Jobs, Starting With Bad News From Volkswagen
Volkswagen cuts 30,000, NetApp, and Marvell also slash jobs. But Tinder is on the hunt in Silicon Valley and Tesla puts out a help-wanted sign in Germany
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