MIT’s new 3D-printed, shock-absorbent materials make for resilient drones
It’s not the fall, it’s the sudden stop – the effect of an impact has similar neg ...
A robot learns to cope with the loss of an eye in an experiment carried out on the ISS
Humans are pretty good at ballparking distances, even with one eye closed — but it turns out ...
Musk says under 5 percent of SpaceX is working on Mars mission, 2024 launch is ‘optimistic’
Elon Musk has a plan to colonize Mars, but he’s not rushing it. In a conference call followin ...
NASA’s asteroid-harvesting mission solicits proposals for its robotic spacecraft
Asteroid mining is coming soon to a planet near you: this planet, and in 2021, to be specific. But ...
IBM and MIT partner up to create AI that understands sight and sound the way we do
When you see or hear something happen, you can instantly describe it: “a girl in a blue shirt ...
Judge a book through its cover with this terahertz camera setup
What do you do if you want to peek inside a book, but you’re pretty sure it’ll crumble ...
We’re one step closer to the Holodeck with this 20-camera 3D body-capture setup
Have you ever been in a VR conference call and thought, well, I know what everyone looks like from ...
Student projects leapfrog governments and industry in ‘Data Science for Social Good’ program
Big data is hardly new at this point — nor has it wrought anywhere near its potential effects on ma ...
Harvard’s Octobot is the first autonomous machine to be made with all soft robotics
For years roboticists have been looking into using softer materials for parts rather than the usual ...
‘MegaMIMO 2.0’ wireless routers work together to triple bandwidth and double range
Wireless interference is one of those things that we tend to not think about, because, well, we can ...