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A plastic band with zipper teeth can interlock into a cylindrical robotic arm

While self-healing conductors have been a leading research focus, there's now a self-healing dielectric material

With the "Aware" earbuds, quantified selfers can add brain-tracking data to their quantified lives

Implanted electrodes make this haptic hand feel like the real deal

A customized computer model showing a heart's unique pattern of electrical activity can guide medical intervention

A leisurely push on the pedal gets a biker of a certain age up to truly steroidal speeds

New study suggest wearing a body camera may put police in greater danger of assault

The best robotics research from the largest IEEE robotics conference

New 3-D printing technique combines direct ink writing with a laser to build structures in midair

The electronic tattoo gets a wearable power pack

Edward Snowden's revelations may have tightened the NSA's leash, but the agency can still request tens of thousands of records for each case

Quantum mechanics help perovskites perform well in fuel cells

Everyone want to supply the brains to tomorrow's cars—because that's where the money is

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A former uBeam engineer says the company hyped its tech. Investor says he never heard it from him

New kind of power supply for RFID and IoT logic circuits could eliminate a sizable chunk of circuitry

Meta-Holograms Work At Any Wavelength

After decades of repressive rule, consumers are demanding 3G service

They showed a 22-fold increase over existing 4G networks

DARPA shows off all of its cool new toys

Mating a topological insulator with a stable magnetic material produces surprising results

International teams compete to develop tools to harness biomedical big data

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