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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

Engineers power a microprocessor-equiped sensor platform using dirt, germs, and a lack of air

Engineers explore ways to take robotics to the limits of size and function

Whole-body shoving allows robots to move some heavy stuff

Medicine has always sought to understand the human body’s operating system. Now, with biometric sensors and big data analytics, we’re learning how to fix the bugs

It’s time for manufacturers to get serious about cybersecurity for implanted medical devices

The Biostamp can replace today's clunky biomedical sensors

Is it enough for a Silicon Valley headquarters to have great food, or does it also has to offer clean energy?

One last look at the wares that were being hawked at the expo

Video highlights from the world's biggest robotics conference

Engineers Dream of Electric Implants

Big Blue recently picked up a search engine, a Siri-like digital assistant, and an API that can understand text and images

Doctors stimulate a nerve in the neck to treat epilepsy, heart failure, stroke, arthritis, and a half dozen other ailments

The game-show-winning AI struggles to find the answers in health care

Can a $10 million prize turn a sci-fi device into real technology?

Technologies that aim to change behavior shouldn’t focus on motivation

Big data is good for identifying gaps in knowledge but not so good for prediction

Structural “fuses” that heal themselves could protect expensive robots from permanent damage

The government is supporting maker spaces in a bid to boost industrial innovation

Big companies could share revenue from the data you upload through fitness trackers and health apps

Graphene-based supercapacitors enable nearly four times more storage capacity over previous versions

Tiny self-folding magnetically actuated robot creates itself when you want it, disappears when you don't

One woman’s fight against cancer in the new era of precision medicine

The future may be driven by the appetite of China’s smaller cities for better goods and services

A deep learning system works 60 times faster than previous methods

New self-monitoring devices will help collect our vital stats into powerful databases, allowing us to prevent or predict health problems as well as treatment sucess or failure

A quick sampling of the interesting—and quirky—gadgets on offer at the expo

Google and Facebook salaries level off; Netflix pays big bucks for software engineers; and what’s up with IBM and Infosys?

Our reluctance to share our medical data isn’t just preventing breakthroughs, it’s “morally unacceptable”

The 100K Wellness Project aims to meticulously monitor subjects for 25 years

Apple, Google, and Samsung want to capitalize on your personal health data. But is there really big money in it?

Medicine can change if patients and payers demand it

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