IEEE Spectrum

As if a traditional Rubik's Cube wasn't hard enough, a new algorithm can turn any shape into a twisting puzzle and then create it on a 3D printer

Research provides greater understanding of how plasmonics works for an entire device, potentially offering a simpler alternative

Computer scientists take valuable lessons from a human vs. AI competition of no-limit Texas hold'em

Urban life makes keeping pets difficult, and robots may become the new normal

Breakthrough promises a way to have "wiring" of wearable electronic embedded in textile yarns

Need to control a lot of robots? This tablet interface makes it easy

Startup Lily Robotics comes out of stealth this week with an autonomous flying videographer

Four of Google's twenty three self-driving cars have been in accidents since September, but Google isn't concerned, and you shouldn't be either

A flying car pilot and inventor managed to walk away unharmed from an emergency crash of an Aeromobil prototype

Top poker players fought a computer program to a draw despite winning slightly more chips

3-D microbatteries could power sensors and medical implants

Preliminary reports suggest that Nepal’s 25 April earthquake wrought extensive damage on the Himalayan nation's hydropower facilities, and also that the damage could have been far worse.

Sometimes, headlines just write themselves

CXC Simulation's Motion Pro II could provide enough force feedback to break your wrists

Chronic pain reduced with no side effects by delivering drugs directly to the site of injury

Efficient Power Conversion says gallium nitride's day has come