My nephew couldn’t stop playing Minecraft when he was seven years old. One of the most popular games ever, Minecraft is an open world in which players build terrain and craft various items and tools.

The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the ...

To keep the infants happy, engaged, and safe, parents brought favorite blankets and pacifiers, and younger infants were wrapped inside a comfortable vacuum pillow to reduce movement. A video system ...

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...

A paralyzed woman can again communicate with the outside world thanks to a wafer-thin disk capturing speech signals in her brain. An AI translates these electrical buzzes into text and, using ...

Our hands are works of art. A rigid skeleton provides structure. Muscles adjust to different weights. Our skin, embedded with touch, pressure, and temperature sensors, provides immediate feedback on ...

Scientists just unveiled the world’s tiniest pacemaker. Smaller than a grain of rice and controlled by light shone through the skin, the pacemaker generates power and squeezes the heart’s muscles ...

Dr. Brian O'Neill is an associate professor of computer science at Quinnipiac University. His primary research area is artificial intelligence, with a particular emphasis on the role that AI can play ...

A human can’t survive in the Mariana Trench without protection. At its deepest, the trench plunges 35,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean to a region reigned by crushing pressure and ...

We don’t think twice about using our hands throughout the day for tasks that still thwart sophisticated robots—pouring coffee without spilling when half-awake, folding laundry without ripping delicate ...

Beyond the initial seeds—the party plan and the crush—the rest emerged of its own accord. "The social behaviors of spreading the word, decorating, asking each other out, arriving at the party, and ...

Though 5G—a next-generation speed upgrade to wireless networks—is scarcely up and running (and still nonexistent in many places) researchers are already working on what comes next. It lacks an ...