Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. It feels as if we’re closer than we’ve ever been in history to seeing humanoid robots ...

Researchers from McMaster University and the University of Pittsburgh have created the first functionally complete logic gate—a NAND gate (short for "NOT AND")—in a soft material using only beams of ...

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A crawler robot made with the miura-ori origami pattern. The dark sections are affixed with thin "magnetic muscles" made by co-extruding rubber polymer and ferromagnetic particles, which move the ...

Picture this: You’ve just checked in your luggage at the airport, and are craving a quick bite before boarding the flight. Should you stand in line to order a meal, enjoy it, and then rush to your ...

Multiplying two analog signals involves the use of analog multipliers, usually implemented by using log and antilog circuit blocks or the Gilbert cell. Today, the most common technique used to ...

BOSTON (CN) — A panel of federal appeals judges on Monday morning signaled an openness toward resuscitating a civil class action against the robot vacuum cleaner company iRobot from investors who say ...

Bill Gates continues to invest in companies related to the environment. Now the founder Microsoft put his money into a startup that develops robots that can grow plants in a sustainable way. According ...

One recent afternoon on the outskirts of Seattle, Melinda French Gates was walking and talking. She was discussing a great many things—including what she feels went wrong with her marriage. In the ...