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Here's why Swiss automation giant ABB is buying a small robot arm company

SpaceX hopes for a historic upright landing of a reusable rocket on a drone ship after past attempts faltered

The quality that makes perovskite attractive for photovoltaics makes them near perfect for lasers

Belgium’s top nuclear regulator and an independent corrosion expert say all nuclear pressure vessels should be inspected after flaws are detected at two Belgian power plants. The NRC is unmoved.

Without any external control, this drone stabilizes itself in midair almost instantly

"Q" won't have to tell James Bond to bring it back in one piece. The car will bring itself back

Will the Internet of Things be a technological and economic panacea?

With the help of the European Space Agency, NASA may attempt a landing on Europa in the late 2020s to search for alien life

The world's most popular camera drone is now even easier to fly

Robot faceplants guaranteed!

Even with a tired battery back, electric vehicles will still have plenty of charge for most people

Terrible idea: teaching robots to use swords. Not terrible idea: spending the rest of your Friday watching robot videos

Scientists have discovered could solve one of the big problems in spintronics—distance

A U.S. decision to block Intel from upgrading a Chinese supercomputer won't stop China in the long run

Consumer GPS devices could provide a low-cost earthquake warning system in developing regions

With robotic samplers in sewage tunnels, public health officials will study the city's microbiome

Random voltage fluctuations on chips can be turned into electricity

iRobot wants to do away with the annoying edge wire that most lawn mower robots use, but their wireless beacon proposal has angered radio astronomers

2-D material offers way to produce third-terminal memristive devices, potentially key to new brain-like computers

A Qualcomm processor in this stock Android phone is powerful enough to autonomously fly this robot

The king of video-game hardware unveils Drive PX, a two-chip monster of parallel processing power

Smart waters meters, rate restructuring and gray water recycling could turn the tide in California's water crisis

Google’s patent for generating robot personalities from cloud data is superfluous, and could make it more difficult for companies social robotics companies to innovate

Coming laser lighting would free Li-Fi from current data rate constraints

Mitsubishi will roll it out in April 2016

The U.S. military's cybersecurity budgets make it tough to gauge the effectiveness of such spending

Nanophotonic coherent imager promises 3-D imaging for 3-D printing applications and beyond

Gordon Moore’s path to his famous prediction

The test mission will see how much we can deflect an asteroid by hitting it with a spacecraft

Low cost, long cycle life and flexibility makes new system promising for grid storage and wearables

At about a half a millimeter thick, Fujitsu’s fluid-filled heat pipe loop can keep even the slimmest devices from cooking

If robotic "nanny cars" lull us into complacence, things could turn ugly fast

A VC says new technologies to analyze and enhance brain activity will be big business

Big physics machine rumbles to life after major upgrade

The trend has more to do with collective behavior than the laws of nature

Without enough commitments Paris climate conference could face trouble

An infrared tracking system watches your pupils and then steers your headlights wherever you're looking

Celebrate robots by taking part in a National Robotics Week event

Paper-thin graphene-based supercapacitors hold twice the charge of thin-film lithium-ion batteries

SuperTruck's 12.2 miles per gallon doesn't sound like a lot, but it's twice as good as a typical semi truck

Here's a big fresh batch of robot videos for you

Formula E CEO Alejandro Agag says this new electric racecar circuit is creating new fans everywhere it goes—and on April 4 it goes to Long Beach

Combining solar power systems with energy storage promises cost-savings and value enhancements achievable for both technologies, but in key states utilities' protection of their bottom lines is getting in the way

Company wagers 10-percent reduction in energy use of LEDs will be a killer app for graphene

This massive robotics event is back, and it starts on Friday

Research raises hope that people may one day get novel superhuman senses

Cheap disposable electronics from super-simple amorphous oxide transistor made from just two materials

Big Blue will invest $3 billion in the business of analyzing data from Internet-connected sensors

Alternatives to conventional integrated circuits may significantly reduce space risks

Samsung now has some competition when it comes to 3-D flash memory, but the economics end of the equation is still blurry