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Baseball pitchers, cyclists, and other competitors seek an edge with new gadgets

We need better energy storage—or a way to avoid having to use it

Sensors, actuators, and algorithms can automatically control blood sugar

Hits from the show floor

We humans can cause earth a lot of damage, but we don’t hold the whip hand

Robots break all the time, and if they could just deal with it themselves, we'd all be a lot happier

Free-space optics help old computers learn new tricks

Never enlist your friends or colleagues to be living, breathing crash test dummies

Phased-array laser scanner may finally give cars the sharp vision they need

Simple process improves single-molecule diodes performance by 50 times

The latest on consumer electronics from Shanghai with twice daily updates from our CES ninja, Stephen Cass

Some of the gadgets that caught our eye at the exhibition

First we take Shanghai…

Need some robot wheels for your robot arms? It doesn't get much easier than this

Strange supersensitive transistors could be ideal for brain-computer interfaces

UC Berkeley's VelociRoACH can carry, and launch, an ornithopter

Computer models say: Beware of animals that live fast and die young

For its size, this is by far the fastest legged robot in existence

Here's a hint: It's in the photo

Researchers aim to create a biomimetic robot

Keep tabs on your newborn with this smart ankle bracelet

Who doesn't want a smarter shirt?

Jerktech, earables, and citizen-terminals all mark a brave new wearable world

This week's coolest robot videos are here

Startups make kits that are cheap and easy for even the youngest future engineers to use

Advocates say solar-powered devices, homes, and villages are a real alternative for electrification in developing economies, not just a standby measure

Powerful algorithms will yield perfectly clear calls

Using machine intelligence and data mining, this entrepreneur can make predictions about future events

Exclusive details and images of the stealthy startup’s experimental vehicle

Crowdsourced networks of low-cost sensors and cellphones could have provided life-saving seconds in Nepal

Will 5G become the backbone of the Internet of Things?

Connecting a smart watch to a glucose sensor lets parents keep tabs on diabetic children

The latest class of startups coming out of HAX make products to test blood, monitor the bladder, and print human tissue

3-D integration lowers energy needs for self-powered IoT device

An antenna that can adjust its size and shape electronically could cut down on components

A Silicon Valley production re-creates the Doug Engelbart demo that foreshadowed modern computing

Next week, Google’s experiment in patent purchasing ends. Will it really have helped fight the trolls?

OSRF is branching out to keep developing ROS and Gazebo

Accion Systems to test compact modular thrusters for the tiniest of satellites

Skating bug-bots, homemade roller coasters, and other oddities

First fabrication of composites containing large sheets of graphene outperforms all others in conductivity and strength

Even with two giant robotics events coming up, there's still tons of stuff happening in robotics this week

A system designed to support healthy living can, in principle, be subverted

Startups introduce the Keurig of cocktails, the Keurig of Jell-O shots, and the Keurig of dinner. Let’s retire this metaphor before we get a “Keurig for Cats”

You'll hit the turn indicator to prime the car for lane-changing, and thereby accept the legal responsibility for doing so

One of the world’s first electronic multi-state memory cells mimics the brain’s ability to simultaneously process and store multiple strands of information

No robots have ever been as capable as the ones that we’re going to see compete in June

Will keeping magnetic fields out allow the exploration of new physics?

The CEO of Terrafugia has a vision for how robotic flying cars could transform our future commutes

They figured that by 1976 we'd be driving jet-powered cars guided by glass-towered traffic controllers