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Iron Man's alma mater has a design for a realistic ARC fusion reactor

The latest 2-D challenger can have metallic and semiconducting parts

A new teleoperation system allows humans to lend their balancing skills to a bipedal robot

Simulations may lead to materials with higher melting points for better energy production

Doppler shifts in Wi-Fi and mobile radio signals pinpoint people through 25-cm brick walls

The easiest way to test how humans react to autonomous cars is by fooling them into thinking they're in one

Mobile communications technology developers demonstrate FD-MIMO and 73-GHz transmissions.

Computer engineers created algorithms that can predict if a patient will have septic shock with time to spare

Companies can switch to fiber lines, but they have to give customers fair warning

Graphene allows thermoelectric material to operate at room temperatures and increases its energy conversion efficiency

No more killer robots debate today, let's just relax with a bunch of fun videos

Experimental techniques could make dim objects far easier to see

Japanese researchers show that children can act like horrible little brats towards robots

Hybrid material produces a switch ratio orders of magnitude higher than graphene alone

Miller and Valasek reveal some of the details of their car hacking at Blackhat

Japanese researchers teach a little humanoid how to play Wii tennis

Physicists propose a simple device design that emits tunable THz radiation when a DC current passes through it

Electronics that can operate at 500 degrees Celsius are in the works for a Venus exploration robot

Search giant says French data agency order goes too far

Photon spin determines direction of current in silicon device

If autonomous weapons are capable of reducing casualties, there may exist a moral imperative for their use

Pulsed voltages add new wrinkle to electrochemical exfoliation of graphene

Finalized EPA rules announced by President Obama would reduce carbon emissions by shutting down coal-fired power plants, shifting U.S. energy mix by 2030

Billions for maps, but not one pfennig for steel

China puts export license restrictions on sales of its supercomputer and drone technologies overseas

Multicopter racing with first-person view camera systems is an increasingly popular sport—despite the FAA’s uncertain view of the activity

The slow commercial development of another nanomaterial appears to be creating some sweaty palms

For one thing, the car won't take over the wheel if it thinks you're too drunk to take it back again

It paid $250,000 for one but declined a $3.5 billion offer

Autonomous weapons could lead to low-cost micro-robots that can be deployed to anonymously kill thousands. That's just one reason why they should be banned

But engineers shouldn't worry too much

The week's best robot videos are here

Obama's executive order aims to achieve exascale supercomputing and pave future for computers

“Someday you’ll be a star!” promised this 1968 Western Electric ad

Some of the most sophisticated machines ever built end their life as scrap

How an engineer re-jiggered a 3D printer and its factory to streamline production

A Kindle and a Raspberry Pi make for a impressive display of maps and distance

A tiny robot shows how water striders can jump without sinking

Property of CNT-based speakers producing sound through heat could prove useful in heating applications

An ultrafast light-emitting device that can flip on and off 90 billion times a second could help computers operate even faster

Jets, rockets, and computer models will help a British team break 1,600 km/h

We are too quick to chase wild and crazy innovation and too slow to implement obvious, practical ideas

Details on exactly what it is are vague

They don't always need to come to a full stop, and they sometimes should exceed the speed limit

Hybrid materials could boost photovoltaic efficiencies by 30 percent or more

Programmable panels turn a classical instrument into a video screen

What we really need is a way of making autonomous armed robots ethical, because we’re not going to be able to prevent them from existing

At a NASA Convention, Workhorse Group presents its plan to have drones drop packages at your door

Amazon urges FAA to create a drone zone, separating drones within it by speed and capabilities.

Discovery holds important implications for the future of spintronics in enabling high-speed, low-power computing