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It sounds like the future, but it's going to happen in 2016

You'll never ever have to cook ever again, ever

Refrigerators and washing machines get tech upgrades; TV technology plateaus

Toyota Research Institute has announced its leadership team for AI and robotics research

Double Robotics brings ludicrous speed to its latest generation of telepresence robots

An eBee-inspired aircraft rounds out Parrot's drone fleet

A scalable method for nuclear heavy water treatment offers a ten-fold reduction in energy requrements

Cota could be the most impressive wireless power technology we've ever seen

Innovation takes many forms on the showfloor

Drones currently perform poorly on the economic aspects of last-mile delivery, but there are better use cases to prove their utility

The IEEE Spectrum team on the hottest gadgets and technology trends

The U.S. automaker will invest $500 million in the ride-sharing service to develop a network of on-demand autonomous vehicles

The technology already exists to mitigate the impact

Two competitions for 2016 could get robots doing something useful for a change

What’s hot—and what’s not—on the showfloor says a lot about the state of technology

In 1962, the U.S. Air Force’s monster Beetle manipulator threatened budgets, sanity, and women

The collaborative robotics sector is expected to increase tenfold by 2020

Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” can reach as far as low earth orbit, and twisted light could boost quantum communication bandwidth

Three possible solutions: specialized architectures, millivolt switches, and 3-D memory

Codes of ethics abound. Does groupthink override them?

Statistics show how the demand for ivory has led to the devastation of elephant populations in Africa

A STEM outreach effort will encourage girls to code by giving them a huge canvas

The chip leader’s fastest machine has slipped off the list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers

From Disney and ETH Zurich, this steampunkish robot can transition from ground to wall and back again

The Silicon City exhibition at the New York Historical Society presents a golden age for computers in the Big Apple

Some companies say they’ll show big advances in 2016

Making the Internet bloom in the desert

70 million transistors and 850 photonic components were integrated onto silicon using the same process for making silicon microprocessors

Scare intruders away with a ridiculously loud alarm

Synthetic-biology startups adopt technologies from the computer industry

Cynthia Breazeal’s home robot wants to be your family’s new best friend

The world watches as Norway makes the switch from analog to digital

Should we try for great leaps over incremental advances?

New production technique for nanoparticle-enabled polymers could lead to better control of soft robots

A 320-terabyte prototype, expected in 2016, will showcase the company’s bid to reinvent computing

Meeting people, not playing games, will make VR popular

The company’s C919 airliner is slated to begin flight tests soon

Five intrepid spacecraft will make their way to the Red Planet in 2016

Scheme lets scientists "have our cake and eat it too"

It's hard to find trustworthy data about IT debacles

A Minority Report–style glove for controlling computers and machines harvests energy from finger motions

Liquid precursor replaces gas to make 3-D nanostructures in seconds

A wireless camera pill uses fluorescent imaging to help detect cancer inside patients' throats and gastrointestinal pathways

Researchers leverage plasmonics to create a laser printer capable of producing an image with over 120,000 dpi resolution

The long-delayed Tres Amigas superstation would help move up to 20 gigawatts of electricity around the continent

Spectrum’s annual special report for the technologies to watch this year

At the Zurich games, people with disabilities will use robotics to go for the gold

Despite big promises, these tech giants probably won’t champion end-to-end encryption

He’ll compete in a bike race, thanks to nerve stimulators implanted in his legs

The latest search for extraterrestrial intelligence will seek out radio and laser signals from other worlds