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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

Do you want a camera deciding when to film you and your family?

Organic electrochemical transistors, implantable ion pumps, and more

Already a leader in the race to put self-driving cars on the world's roads, it may ultimately use that position to push today's auto insurance carriers out of the market

Researchers improve powered prosthetic legs with algorithms that respond to muscles' electric signals

Researchers in Japan fabricate a hybrid inorganic/organic LED that produces white-blue electroluminescence using quantum dots

The wildly popular singer Akon is establishing an academy to teach Africans how to build and maintain grid-free power networks

Humongous haulers handle themselves far from traffic and pedestrians

This transformer robot took first place because it was fast, adaptable, and didn't fall down

Legislation that went into effect last month allows some low-efficiency water heaters to be sold—for good reason

Game of Drones wants to move drones out of the hands of hobbyists into the mass market with a hard-to-destroy, easy-to-fly racing drone

It was a nail-biting final round as Team KAIST completed a perfect run with the fastest time, winning the $2 million grand prize

Everything we were amazed by on the first day of the competition

Gravity is a bad thing for robots

The most amazing run we saw all day came from CHIMP, which was the only robot to fall and get up again

A fifth round of funding keeps the hope alive that carbon-nanotube memory can play David to the market Goliaths

Paul Carroll talks about the TV show’s technological background

Next-gen medical devices include artificial hearts, neurostimulators to restore vision, and chips to dispense birth control

Not in Pomona? No problem. Here's how to watch a live stream of the competition

Everything you need to know about the DRC Finals course

Chronos thinks people who love their “dumb” watches will love this smart watch back

Hydrophobic graphene coating improves the rate of condensation heat transfer by a factor of four

Osram joins the race to enable inexpensive cars to meet future safety standards

We're at the DRC Finals in Pomona, and here's your first look at the course

All 25 robots in a single handy poster-size image

Health and wellness startups dominate Highway 1’s latest class, launched in former grow-house

The Italian team describes their highly customized humanoid

Two-minute smartphone charging in 2016, prototype five-minute EV charging in 2017

We'll take you through the current state of the DRC robots just before the competition starts

These tiny, starfish-like microrobots are designed to perform biopsies inside the human colon

We visit Team TROOPER at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories to see how ready they are for the DRC Finals

Computer programs that aim to help physicians make clinical decisions fail most of the time, says study

Graphene-based heating system promises 70-percent reduction in home heating costs

Jamming layers give a soft actuator adjustable stiffness

Will these wood chips make cell phones and computers more environmentally friendly?

A cousin of the Stuxnet virus that crippled Iran's nuclear program failed to do the same to North Korea, Reuters reports

Imaging of individual cells reduced from a couple of weeks to a couple of days