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Perching drones can extend their useful mission life from minutes to hours or days

The first consumer generation of the ReliefBand is too big, ugly, and looks and feels like a cheap toy. And I will never again leave the house without it.

The cars will have two independent motors to be sure that at least one of them turns the steering wheel

Some of the craziest computer interaction prototypes we've ever seen are on display this week in San Jose

No one wants to deal with a pesky bot that won’t shut up

This underwater drone is looking for work at fish farms—and as a research robot at universities

Plasmonic nanostructures push tungsten diselenide to massive increase in photoluminescence

A Stanford roboticist (and fencer) discusses drones, swords, and why mixing them is such a great idea

Experts say self-driving cars should start with vibrations in your seat

The startup’s snap-in wheel assembly contains all you need for electric propulsion

An in-depth look at Neato's newest and fanciest Wi-Fi connected, LIDAR-equipped robotic vacuum

The forward motion of its pods will provide magnetic lift

Pharmaceutical researchers hope to find promising paths to cancer cures and other remedies, but many are dead ends. TwoXAR wants computers to lead their way.

Silicon nanoparticles significantly increase the intensity of the Raman effect for nanoscale light emitters

Researchers prove sleep data collected from a mobile app is reliable

Independent study by ophthalmologists shows that the clip-on device dramatically improves ability to carry out daily life tasks

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Lyft customers will be able to opt in or out of the robotaxi service

This prototype smartphone has a holographic lightfield displays glasses-free 3-D images, and a structure that bends for depth interaction

A so-called nitrogen-vacancy defect sensor provides superb image resolution of minute phenomena

UC Berkeley's VelociRoACHes get magnetic grappling hooks to help them cooperatively climb over obstacles

Tech luminaries celebrate one of the greatest electrical engineering heroes of all time

Sonar signals hold clues that could save an endangered species

In a tricky surgical procedure on pigs, independent robotic surgery produced better outcomes

The NASA humanoid is ready to start training for simulated Mars missions

The company hopes access to the five-qubit chip will help people learn to "think quantum"

A measurement method's poor performance leads to a new technique that exploits that failure

Founded less than two years ago, the company is already building factories and spending $1 billion on research

The future of how self-driving cars talk to each other is up for grabs

We're still looking for the delivery drone magic from Google's Moonshot Factory

High-tech answers to pressing questions: What's in your marijuana? How pure is your ecstasy?

Researchers program DNA to respond at different temperature ranges

An ’80s synthesizer is reborn as an avant-garde instrument

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Replacing bulky film cameras allowed astronauts to become filmmakers

It stored data in cathode-ray tubes and a rotating magnetic drum

Movidius puts a 1-watt neural network accelerator in a mobile friendly form

Indium tin oxide is surprisingly adept at interacting with photons

Electrochromic polymers are not just for darkening windows anymore thanks to plasmonics

DARPA’s HAPTIX program aims to develop a prosthetic hand that’s just as capable as the original

Google, Ford, Volvo, Uber and Lyft have just founded a self-driving car lobby to press for favorable treatment in Congress and the regulatory agencies

How a Japanese and Indian team of sonar engineers came together to help the endangered Ganges River dolphin

Two registries have claimed the Internet domain, leaving it stuck in limbo. The court battle begins next week

OceanOne is smaller, nimbler, and easier to control than traditional underwater ROVs

A new twist on a 40-year-old material could lead to infrared color televisions and three-color infrared imaging

The profession could be putting itself out of work

A cutting-edge system detects the spread HIV infections in near real-time

Hackers can eavesdrop on calls through flawed handoffs between the world’s mobile phone carriers.

10 million strands of synthetic DNA will encode mystery data in test

A deep learning approach could make self-driving cars better at adapting to new situations