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A unique mobile design and easy voice programming help this social robot stand out

Science, technology, and society programs will become more effective if they’re embraced by scientists and engineers

Instead of an ultrasonic transducer array, you can now make tractor beams with some plastic and a 3D printer

Now used to brighten displays, quantum dots could one day guide a surgeon’s hand

More precise spectroscopy technique reveals phosphorene is as good as predicted

A hybrid delta biplane design results in efficiency, range, and pinpoint landings

There’s no shortage of talented minority engineers. Experts weigh in on how to find and keep them

Coal interests oppose technologies and rules that would prevent the waste of pollution-free power

New guidelines, due out today, will speed robocars into use as soon as possible

Smart homes could play music to fit your mood

Giant analog computers, 3-D printing, and catapults could be the future of asteroid mining

Could anti-IED tech developed for Afghanistan and Iraq help in U.S. city streets?

Outraged over price hikes for the drug-injector, pharma hackers take matters into their own hands

This robot uses innovative direct-drive motors go pretty much anywhere

Acrylic glass, a common polymer, controls the growth of perovskite crystals to make a 21%-efficient solar cell

Because millimeter waves are the most meaningful 5G wireless innovation. Others experts disagree

Silver nanowires linked together by graphene offer a cheaper and better alternative to indium tin oxide

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Niantic CTO Phil Keslin says the $35 Pokémon Go Plus accessory was designed to be kids’ stuff

Researchers use fMRI feedback to "brain train" volunteers so that they had more positive or negative feelings about a person's face

Generalized approach to producing nanorods using block copolymers could open up new applications

A big donation and new partnership help ensure a robust future for the Robot Operating System

NASA-funded study makes compelling arguments in favor of traveling to Mars in an unconscious state

Multiple lidar sets provide not only an overlapping view forward and aft, but also a close-up view of the side

Raising $2.7 million was the easy part. Making devices for 13,000 backers has proven harder

An inorganic semiconductor has excellent electronic properties and flexibility, all thanks to a double-helix structure

China, South Korea, and Japan envision Northeast Asia as center of global power grid

Games were played to get this pioneering game company off the ground

After successful trials earlier this year, Dutch police are training 100 humans and four eagle chicks to take out drones

The brain-computer interface is already being tested in humans with Lou Gehrig's disease

No window is safe from a quadrotor incursion

"No steering wheel, no brake pedal" for self-driving car, says CEO

Fabric woven from fiber-based solar cells and kinetic energy harvesters generates power day and night

Turning burdensome software into simple hardware speeds core-to-core communication in microprocessors

The MVP robot tackling dummy takes hits so football players won’t have to

Realizing the promise of over a century of thermoacoustic-based speakers, simple process means the technology could find its way into portable speakers

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Brain wave-based authentication systems are giving away a lot more than just your name

This is much harder to do than it sounds

Fly my pretties! Vans will release and retrieve drones and wheeled cargo bots

Researchers build a photonic integrated circuit that could one day give smartphone security true random numbers

A handheld spectrometer could help farmers optimize harvests and improve fruit and vegetable sorting and storage

Research indicates that nanoparticles found in the brain are not the product of the body but likely come from air pollution

Apple dips into the multicamera waters, while startup Light gets ready to ship a 16-camera device

It's not the first to do so, but it could change the audio quality equation

We find out how well a telepresence robot can visit the zoo and play golf at the beach

With sorting and placement of CNTs solved, CNTs outperform even the best silicon-based transistors

Simulations have highlighted the flaws of modern airport layouts when it comes to enabling emergency evacuations

How two software engineers pulled together machine learning tools to make one of Spotify's most popular offerings

After dodging disasters from Hurricane Sandy, Facebook instigates its own outages as part of Project Storm