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The new robot vacuum uses VSLAM to navigate and clean larger spaces in satisfyingly straight lines

Magnetic Signals Could Replace Bluetooth in Wearables

Why every engineer shouldn't necessarily work directly on the product, and why good tools are like good food

Multiplexers are essential components of any wireless communication system

The euRathlon challenge will feature ground, marine, and aerial robots competing in a simulated disaster zone

What would Dave and Bill do? Probably not this

Google has hired an auto industry engineer who worked at Hyundai and Ford as its new robot car CEO

While using modulated LEDs to transmit data via visible ambient light isn't a new idea, Disney is trying to figure out how to make it work for us

A chip that can shatter upon command could safeguard U.S. military data and devices on future battlefields

Until robots can solve all of our problems, they're going to need to know when (and how) to ask us for help

The nervous system adapts to severe injury when energized by electric pulses synced to muscle movements

Single silicon nanoparticle acts as a switch by scattering light

Automatic emergency braking will be standard but not mandatory

Other states require a test driver in the car, but Uber cut a deal with Arizona

Advance opens up the possibility of quantum repeaters for long distance qubit transmission

This is what happens when we skip a week of Video Friday

MIT's new technique could more easily enable multi-core chips with hundreds or thousands of cores

The former DARPA program manager discusses what he's going to do next

Fraunhofer is using carbon nanotubes to make a heating element so thin it can be deposited on a car's interior

Leveraging a novel spectroscopy technique, researchers observe nanoparticles individually and noninvasively

JPL's tumbling robotic hedgehog can jump, spin, and roll in microgravity to explore asteroids and comets

DARPA challenged computer modelers to predict the spread of the chikungunya virus, with decidedly mixed results

The 25th anniversary of the IEEE 802.11 wireless standard provides a chance to glimpse next-gen Wi-Fi

Research suggests the material could be great for fundamental calibration

Its software warns the driver and stops the car. It also warns other drivers

Kirigami techniques could significantly boost power generation

There are signs all around us indicating that the field of robotics is going through a major transformation

Laser ablation looks like it could be the way to go for despinning asteroids for mining, or pushing them off of a collision course for Earth

New blend of materials promises highly scalable production of highy efficient solar cells

$60 lidar spoofing device generates fake cars, pedestrians and walls

Flexibility of nanofibers suggests potential as a power source in wearable electronics

A specially made silicon surface that can modulate light could lead to lead to a new generation of lightweight, mass-produced optical systems

First step is a $50 million collaboration with MIT and Stanford, led by ex-DARPA program manager Gill Pratt

For first time, researchers can now make highly thermally conductive and mechanically strong fibers using different size graphene sheets

Crown-of-thorns sea stars can wipe out coral reefs, but an autonomous stabby poison robot is on the case

New general purpose GPU part of post-Moore's Law open-source hardware trend

Who needs perception when you can reliably grasp objects blind

Drivers in Austin will begin to ride alongside the Google’s custom prototypes later this month

INRIX gathers data from moving cars that paint a real-time picture of weather conditions on the road up ahead

Graphene adds another mechanical property to its growing list

DARPA is looking for swarms of nearly disposable UAVs that can launch and be retrieved in mid-air

A new "artificial leaf" that can turn sunlight and water directly into hydrogen and oxygen is shattering performance and stability records

Europe's official collecting and recycling systems account for just over one-third of its overall used and discarded electronics

When the growth of robot capabilities begins in earnest, it will likely be explosive

Quick results can provide urgently needed information in a life-or-death situation

Regions could save $5.7 million-$210 million per year by replacing coal-fired power with renewable energy or energy efficiency measures

Google has the cars, the test drivers, the engineers, and the money

U.S. President Obama is ramping up research funding for advanced CPV systems

The only way is up, says conference for rocket-free orbital travel

This simple electromechanical device, once crucial to telephone exchanges, lives on in portable defibrillators