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Let’s Bring Rosie Home: 5 Challenges We Need to Solve for Home Robots
What problems do engineers need to crack before they can deliver the proverbial Rosie the Robot?
Stretchable Electronics Have Their Coming Out Party At CES
MC10’s BioStamp and WiSP, L’Oréal’s My UV Patch: These skin-like sensors represent a new breed of wearables
Non-Invasive Nerve Stimulator Tamps Down Brainwaves That Cause Migraines
Study in rats shows that non-invasive stimulator works just as well as an implant and way quicker than drugs
One-Eyed Bug Vision Helps Drones Land
How instability in a drone's path tells it about its height
"Printing Press" Method Stamps Out Gold Nanoparticles With New Properties
Process leads to a new kind of building block for assembling nanostructures with novel properties
Graphene Flakes Make Laser Neuron Superfast
Chip's transistors are really lasers that spike with bursts of photons
No More Exploding Hoverboards? Stanford's Nano-Nickel Sheets Can Prevent Battery Fires
A battery that shuts down before dangerously overheating and restarts when it cools may just be a matter of adding a bit of plastic and some nanoparticles
Tesla Feature Lets Cars Come When Called
Right now customers can play with the feature at home, but in two years it could work cross-continentally
Nanotech Could Raise Incandescents From The Dead
Tungsten filaments surrounded with resonating nanostructures could glow with luminous efficiency better than LEDs
Video Friday: Kicking a Robot, TV Drone Crash, and Supernumerary Lightsabers
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Hydrogen Adds Longevity to Laptops, Phones, and Drones, But Is It Practical?
Intelligent Energy's fuel cell prototypes include a drone that can fly for up to two hours
Lessons from CES: How VR Can Avoid the Fate of 3D TV
Early optimism that virtual reality is about to blossom into a new mainstream medium could collapse into despair
Little Dripper Builds Better Electrodes for Touch-Screens
Better conductivity and transparency than ITO, but scalability remains on obstacle for 3-D printing process
Stable Perovskite Cell Boosts Solar Power
Tandem solar cells aim to improve efficiency
Quanergy Announces $250 Solid-State LIDAR for Cars, Robots, and More
The S3 is, according to its maker, better than existing LIDAR systems in every single way
A Renewable Supergrid in Russia
A Finnish report shows that Russia could move to a 100-percent renewable energy system in the next two decades, though it probably won't
Micro-Hybrids Hold the Key to Future Auto Fuel Efficiency
Start-stop car technology may contribute more to auto efficiency than all-electric vehicles or fuel cells
Why Wireless Power Is the Most Exciting Thing at CES 2016
It sounds like the future, but it's going to happen in 2016
Cooki: a Desktop Robotic Chef That Does Everything
You'll never ever have to cook ever again, ever
CES 2016: Move Over TV, Appliances Are in the Spotlight
Refrigerators and washing machines get tech upgrades; TV technology plateaus
Toyota AI Team Hires James Kuffner from Google Robotics, Will Have Rodney Brooks as Adviser
Toyota Research Institute has announced its leadership team for AI and robotics research
Double 2 Telepresence Robot Has Better Stability, New Camera, and Turbo Button
Double Robotics brings ludicrous speed to its latest generation of telepresence robots
Disco Adds Fixed Wing Flight to Parrot's Flock of Drones
An eBee-inspired aircraft rounds out Parrot's drone fleet
Graphene Filter Could Change the Game in Nuclear Power Costs
A scalable method for nuclear heavy water treatment offers a ten-fold reduction in energy requrements
Ossia's Cota Wireless Power Tech Promises to Enable the Internet of Everything
Cota could be the most impressive wireless power technology we've ever seen
CES is Dead. Long Live CES
Innovation takes many forms on the showfloor
The Economics of Drone Delivery
Drones currently perform poorly on the economic aspects of last-mile delivery, but there are better use cases to prove their utility
CES 2016: Complete Coverage of the Best Emerging Tech
The IEEE Spectrum team on the hottest gadgets and technology trends
GM and Lyft Team Up for Robot Taxi Service
The U.S. automaker will invest $500 million in the ride-sharing service to develop a network of on-demand autonomous vehicles
Climate Change Could Challenge the Water Needs of Power Plants
The technology already exists to mitigate the impact
Get Back to Work: Amazon and Airbus Want Your Robots
Two competitions for 2016 could get robots doing something useful for a change
CES: The Engineer’s Scorecard
What’s hot—and what’s not—on the showfloor says a lot about the state of technology
Radiation-Proof Robot’s Terrifying Safety Demonstration
In 1962, the U.S. Air Force’s monster Beetle manipulator threatened budgets, sanity, and women
Why Co-Bots Will Be a Huge Innovation and Growth Driver for Robotics Industry
The collaborative robotics sector is expected to increase tenfold by 2020
Two Steps Closer to a Quantum Internet
Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” can reach as far as low earth orbit, and twisted light could boost quantum communication bandwidth
Power Problems Threaten to Strangle Exascale Computing
Three possible solutions: specialized architectures, millivolt switches, and 3-D memory
The Engineer’s Dilemma Resurfaces in Volkswagen’s Emissions Scandal
Codes of ethics abound. Does groupthink override them?
The Deaths of Elephants
Statistics show how the demand for ivory has led to the devastation of elephant populations in Africa
Teen Girls Will Create Games to Play on a Philadelphia Skyscraper
A STEM outreach effort will encourage girls to code by giving them a huge canvas
Taiwan Neglects Supercomputing
The chip leader’s fastest machine has slipped off the list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers
Disney’s VertiGo Combines Car, Helicopter to Drive Up Walls
From Disney and ETH Zurich, this steampunkish robot can transition from ground to wall and back again
Review: NYC’s Computing History on Display
The Silicon City exhibition at the New York Historical Society presents a golden age for computers in the Big Apple
Is Real Wireless Phone Charging Nearly Here?
Some companies say they’ll show big advances in 2016
Profile: Heather “CameraGirl” Gallagher Is Burning Man’s IT Mastermind
Making the Internet bloom in the desert
Processor With Photonic Interconnects Built
70 million transistors and 850 photonic components were integrated onto silicon using the same process for making silicon microprocessors
Build Your Own Home Security System
Scare intruders away with a ridiculously loud alarm
DNA Manufacturing Enters the Age of Mass Production
Synthetic-biology startups adopt technologies from the computer industry
Jibo Is as Good as Social Robots Get. But Is That Good Enough?
Cynthia Breazeal’s home robot wants to be your family’s new best friend
Norway Pioneers the Digital Radio Future, Abandoning FM
The world watches as Norway makes the switch from analog to digital
Planning for Greatness
Should we try for great leaps over incremental advances?
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