Researchers at Princeton University have built a swarm of interconnected mini-robots that “bloom” like flowers in response to changing light levels in an office. According to their new paper published ...

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If The Addams Family was a science fiction show, “Thing” might look something like this. Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend ...

The very capable robotic picker-upper can grasp things on both sides and roam around freely. By Ari Daniel As a mother of three, Aude Billard, a roboticist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ...

More than a century after the ship went down, new evidence is forcing a harder look at what really happened during Titanic’s final hours. The clarity now available reshapes long-disputed moments of ...

Neuroscientists are tracking the brain activity that underlies a cognitive breakthrough and unraveling how it might boost memory Nora Bradford, Quanta Magazine Some solutions are reached incrementally ...

How many of us still picture then-cute-little Haley Joel Osment in the 2001 film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" whenever hearing the term? And how many of us are still marveling at the ways AI has ...

Researchers have created microscopic robots so small they’re barely visible, yet smart enough to sense, decide, and move completely on their own. Powered by light and equipped with tiny computers, the ...

For nearly half a century, the dream of microscopic robotics has felt tantalizingly close, yet perpetually out of reach. We have grown up on a diet of science fiction like Fantastic Voyage, imagining ...

HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) - Michigan Technological University students make progress on day two of a three-day robotics challenge on Sunday. MTU Copper Country Robotics Team members are working together ...

Simple science tricks that resemble magic through clever use of physics. Why Elon Musk says saving for retirement will be 'irrelevant' in the next 20 years Trump says credit card firms violate law if ...

Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earth’s continents didn’t begin growing until hundreds of millions of years ...