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Autonomous vehicles would make cities greener and drivers less employable

Construction robotics has the potential to drastically speed up building structures while reducing cost

Computer models provide insight into how to access graphene's flexoelectricity

The first “Glass” wearable? 1997. Early fitness bands that measure pulse? 2002. Wearables have been around longer than you think

Video Friday has arrived early this week

Select research aimed at keeping AI from destroying humanity has received millions from the Silicon Valley pioneer

Cruise Automation’s modified Audis join Google’s experimental self-driving cars and others

Forget the currency; it’s the protocol behind it that matters. It will mutate and take over everything we do (or could one day do) on the Web. You’ve been warned

Robots that can make it from air to water and back again need some novel propulsion designs

The French company takes to the water for the first time as it shows off upgrades to its line of mini-drones

It's a science experiment, more to test the technology than to use it

Turing anticipated many of today’s worries about super-smart machines threatening mankind

The mathematician and cryptanalyst explained his famous test of computer intelligence during two BBC radio broadcasts in the early 1950s

A chunk of ballast going to Mars in the early 2020s could spread its wings and fly

Reclaiming energy that would otherwise be lost offers improved efficiency in vehicles

The brief encounter will generate so much data it’ll take more than a year to send it all back

The brief encounter will generate so much data it’ll take more than a year to send it all back

And to manage that headroom they'll need more powerful computers—and an operating system

Self-driving cars will become places of their own, not just means of transport

Loss of a SpaceX resupply mission comes at an awkward time for NASA's private spaceflight contractors

Energy efficiency and battery management dominate the series

UC Berkeley's robotic roaches roll through clutter thanks to fancy new shells

Boosters of Silicon Valley days are off base: The real tech decade happened rather earlier

Here is what happens when rival self-driving cars want to move into the same lane.

Graphene's umatched charge carrier mobility improves sensitivity and power consumption for Hall effect sensor

Melding spin-based logic and memory could lead to low-power, instant-on electronics

The week's best robot videos

From 18th-century looms to hanging chads, this technology endured

Toyota's Lexus brand has built a functional hoverboard prototype based on superconductors and magnets

Production technique improves graphene's selectivity in biosensing

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