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A new low-cost lidar can detect approaching cars

Researchers find a way to greatly reduce the amount of regeneration data signals need

Researchers are developing small robots that can self-assemble into a functional Gauss gun

This expert guide will get you off the ground

A record $1.17 billion goes to support startups doing launches, creating satellite networks, and cleaning up space trash

No strap-on solar panels here: this “photo battery” charges directly from light

A humble device reminds me of electrical engineering's foundations

NASA is giving out Valkyrie robots to universities for space training

A new movement tries to define engineers' roles and responsibilities in the innovation process

Could help enable safer, more powerful next-generation batteries

Augmented reality can impair our perception, but good design can minimize the hazards

Researchers discover that valley polarization makes electron spin polariation in silicon transistors easier

Why cool an entire building when you can just cool the people in it?

The Wyndham New Yorker Hotel new mini-museum shows off the hotel’s high-tech origins

To avoid hurting the car's occupants, the system can be triggered only at sedate speeds

A piezoelectric-powered pacemaker would do away with bulky batteries and speed up surgeries

In this state-by-state plan to eliminate fossil fuel use in the U.S. by 2050, California leans on solar power, Maine on wind

Will flashristors perform better than memristors?

This documentary explores solutions to a crucial tech diversity problem

The week's best robot videos. Right here.

Frequency modulated square waves help chip-makers resurrect a defect-detection technique they had nearly abandoned

Stressed-out mice exhibit fewer depression-like behaviors when researchers activate certain neural circuits

Residential solar installers innovate to get around utility grid fees

Resesarchers believe that graphene could replace tantalum nitride within two chip generations

Manufacturing and big data are among the hot sectors in IEEE Spectrum’s annual roundup

Microspine grippers will bring an asteroid back to Earth in the 2020s

Microspine grippers will bring an asteroid back to Earth in the 2020s

Artificial muscles powered by expanding and shrinking spores could power robots, sensors, vehicles

It’s time to have a global conversation about how AI should be developed

The test pilot barely touched the wheel, probably because he was being whipsawed by g forces

A brain implant reads a paraplegic man’s intentions to let him pick up a beer

A robotics company that didn't exist a year ago gets a huge investment from Japan

Biology is accelerating faster than Moore’s Law, says IndieBio founder. It’s time for scientists to be entrepreneurs

And because it lets each carmaker do things in its own way, it may just survive the onslaughts from Google and Apple

Simple battery could lead to a self-contained biosensor system costing only five cents

SRI unveils a walking humanoid robot that's 20x more efficient than ATLAS

Nanosatellites may go into deep space for the first time

Hyperbolic metasurface gives new control over lightwaves

Pembient’s founders hope to destroy the illegal trade in Rhino horn and make “essence of rhino” products popular

An intelligent, collaborative robotic arm knows how to complete tasks that you may not

First on-chip visible light source that uses graphene could lead to photonic circuits

Get caught up with non-ICRA, non-DRC videos. We promise!

Seven Nao robots steal the spotlight in a modern dance performance

Oh no, not again! “Medjacks” demonstrate that medical devices are the soft underbelly of medical networks, according to a TrapX study

A new operating principle brings CO2 sensors to a range of new applications

With the DRC over, here's what we learned, and what we have to look forward to

Problem is, car prices increasingly reflect their tech content, which doesn't age gracefully

Nanowire meshes can be placed into the brain through a needle

Microtransponder’s vagus nerve stimulator uses precisely-timed jolts to help stroke victims relearn movements more quickly

Excreting eagles nearly made a failure out of the most technologically advanced power line of its time. Animal incursions are still a problem, but there's a standard for that