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A joint venture announced last week plans to commercialize a pest-control system with roots in the old Star Wars missile defense system

A self-driving car outfitted with Delphi technologies readies for a 5600-kilometer road trip

Chemically-treated spider silk improves supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries

One application this robot is already helping with: making more robots

Sending kilowatts of power half a kilometer is just a start. Japan is planning orbiting solar farms in the 2030s

Flexible EEG sensor stays stuck to your through showers, swims, and sleep

Thrusters nudged the satellites to a better, but still not ideal orbit

The one uses cheap cameras, the other is developing (fairly) cheap lidar

With a new robot in the works called Tega, MIT's Personal Robots Group wants to get social robots out into the world

Goodyear wants to capture the wasted energy where the rubber meets the road

Humanitarian groups in Laos may soon have help clearing munitions from the Vietnam War

Sensors and analytics developed for cars find use in elite athletics and medicine

The best robot videos of the week are here

Coating copper nanowires with graphene lowers their resistance and and heat buildup

That makes it the second Chinese tech giant this week to hop on the smart-car bandwagon

After analyzing more than 9000 goals, system concludes it's the quality of shots on goal, not the quantity, that counts

Could silicon fullarenes eventually outperform buckyballs in molecular electronics?

It sounds like science fiction, but the Navy is ready to put an electric gun into shipboard testing at sea

A solar eclipse across Europe next Friday will slash generation from solar power plants. Grid operators are pulling out the stops preparing for both massive power supply swings and abnormal power consumption.

Insurance companies reveal fears over how crashless highways might affect their bottom lines

The Danish company continues to expand by offering robot arms so easy to program that even a reporter can do it

New manganese superconductor might be better than conventional superconductors at resisting magnetic disruption

Four satellites set to launch today on a two-year mission to analyze Earth's magnetic fields

Watch this bipedal robot get attacked by vicious dodgeball-loving researchers

Dunkin' Donuts promises to remove titanium dioxide from their powdered sugar coatings

Yet another tech company has jumped on the self-driving bandwagon

A solar plane crossed the Arabian Sea during its round-the-world journey

Chinese journalist Chai Jing's viral doc—a damning indictment of toothless environmental enforcement -- was taken down by Chinese government censors

An expert discusses what might ensue if the drone hits the airframe, windscreen, or a turbofan engine

Insight should help engineers in applying graphene to thermal management solutions

Super-short pulses yield powerful midair beams

Researchers have proposed a Visual Turing Test in which computers would answer increasingly complex questions about a scene

The second annual competition of DIYer, hackers, and makers begins

But don't throw out your giant Swiss particle accelerator yet

Starting April 24th, Silicon Valley’s social scene will get a boost, thanks to Apple

Researchers create synthetic memories through brain stimulation

This is your heart on drugs. On a chip. Any questions?

Deep neural network wipes out more than 90 percent of noise when talking on hands-free mobile

The best robot videos of the week are right here

Rather than generate more energy with exotic technologies, we could save it with proven ones, like insulation

For the first time, researchers direct electrons across graphene on a predefined path

The NASA spacecraft becomes the first space mission to ever orbit a dwarf planet

The AI expert says autonomous robots can help us with tasks and decisions but they need not do everything

Smarter mobile operating systems can make browsing mobile Web apps more energy efficient

Ballpoint pens loaded with high-tech inks could lead to "do-it-yourself" sensors

Creating a science-fiction robot requires a solid grounding in real technologies

Wearables powered by energy-generating cloth are on the horizon

Autonomous construction cranes will reconfigure Google's proposed campus by moving modular offices around as needed

A total of 25 teams from seven countries will compete in what is possibly the most anticipated robotics event ever

2-D material offers performance of germanium-based devices with easier production methods