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Nitrogen Supercharges Supercapacitors
Quick-charging devices might finally match lead-acid batteries for energy storage
Energous Readies Wireless Power Tech for Consumer Devices
Energous has made substantial progress towards consumer wireless power, but will we see it in devices this year?
Video Friday: Segway Robot Demo, Pepper the Retail Worker, and Megakopter World Record
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
Bitcoin Needs (Gasp!) Formal Governance
The stakes are so high decision-makers have become paralyzed
Metamaterial Could Eliminate Overheating in Future Photonic Circuits
Combining metamaterials with plasmonic components could tip the scale in the future of photonic circuits
Ronnie Nader: Ecuador’s One-Man Space Program
How one developing country is navigating its way into the space age
The Trouble With Targets
The threat of failure hangs over efforts to solve big, multidimensional engineering challenges, but that shouldn’t stop us from trying
Lithium-Ion Battery Warms Up, Operates In Subzero Temperatures
Advance May Help Support High-Altitude Drones, Space Exploration
Graphene Offers Emission Tunability for Terahertz Lasers
New tunable properties open up applications in telecommunications and replacing X-rays for scanners
MIT’s Food Computer: The Future of Urban Agriculture?
Open-source, Internet-assisted farming aims for a new green revolution
Helicopter Robot Airdrops Recon Ground Robot, No Humans Necessary
A robot team of a UAV and a UGV carry out dangerous recon missions so that you don't have to
Profile: Anouk Wipprecht’s Dynamic Dresses
Her intelligent clothing relies on sensors and smarts to react to its wearer and the environment
The Catalyst That Finally Gets Fuel Cell Vehicles on the Road?
Separating hydrogen from carbon dioxide efficiently may help sidestep the nagging hydrogen storage problem
Laser-Driven "Bubble Pen" Patterns Nanoparticles
Researchers create vapor bubbles to pull particles of solution and down to a substrate
Spectacular Video Shows Flyability's Gimball Drone Exploring Ice Caves
It takes an indestructible drone to explore these dangerous glacial crevasses
Self-Driving Cars Will Be Ready Before Our Laws Are
Putting autonomous vehicles on the road isn’t just a matter of fine-tuning the technology
Toshiba Prepares Amphibious Robot for Fukushima Reactor Pool
Extracting fuel rods is too dangerous for humans, but not for this floating dual-arm robot
Sensors Slip into the Brain, Then Dissolve When the Job Is Done
Transient electronics monitor pressure and temperature for five days and then disappear
NASA Picks Dream Chaser Shuttle for Space Station Resupply
Sierra Nevada Corp. joins SpaceX and Orbital ATK in $14-billion ISS resupply program
Obama's $4-Billion Self-Driving Car Plan Is All About Laws and Testing
The 10-year government proposal aims to make state laws about self-driving cars consistent nationally
Human Life Is a Gas
Smart pill can "smell" our intestinal gases and tell whether we're sick
Flexible Nanocomposite Film Could Yield Handheld Cancer Detector
Nanocomposite film enables miniaturized circularly polarized light detector
Power Harvesting Sensor Patch Uses Your Body As a Battery
A prototype of a wireless sensor patch harvests your body heat to power itself
Video Friday: 100-Drone Spectacle, Autonomous Car vs. Snow, and Robot With Machine Gun
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
IHMC's ATLAS Robot Learning to Do Some Chores
Meet the robot butler that you will never, ever be able to afford
Move Over Wearables. Make Way for Implantables
ProFusa reveals an injectable, biocompatible oxygen sensor at CES 2016
Smarter Cruise Control Can Boost Hybrid Fuel Economy and Safety
Simulations show how adaptive cruise control can boost the energy efficiency and safety of plug-in hybrid cars
Stable Superoxide Could Usher in New Class of Lithium-Air Batteries
Superoxide could usher in a new closed battery system with the potential of offering five times the energy density of lithium ion
Steerable, Motorized Cyborg Spermbots Take on Infertility
Tiny, magnetically-driven power suits for individual sperm cells turn them into steerable cyborg spermbots
Hands-On with Ultrahaptics' Invisible, Touchable Controls
Feeling invisible objects in mid-air seems like magic, but you can use this tech to control your stove
Google Owns Up to Its Self-Driving Cars' Near-Misses
Google's car hasn't yet been at fault in an accident, but it still isn't quite ready to discard its training wheels
Potential of Graphene Nanoribbons in Electronics Gets a Boost
GNRs maintain properties when interconnected
Fluttering Flag Generates Power From Wind
Using static electricity effect, flag converts its own movement into electricity to power small devices
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
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