Flexible stick-on sensors could wirelessly monitor your sweat and pulse
As people strive ever harder to minutely quantify every action they do, the sensors that monitor tho ...
These robo-shorts are the precursor to a true soft exoskeleton
When someone says “robotic exoskeleton,” the power loaders from Aliens are what come to ...
Cryptographic ICE Cube tests orbital cybersecurity protocols aboard the ISS
Encryption in space can be tricky. Even if you do everything right, a cosmic ray might come along an ...
Tesseract makes spacecraft propulsion smaller, greener, stronger
Launch vehicles and their enormous rocket engines tend to receive the lion’s share of attentio ...
Voyant Photonics raises $4.3M to fit lidar on the head of a pin
Lidar is a critical method by which robots and autonomous vehicles sense the world around them, but ...
These robo-ants can work together in swarms to navigate tricky terrain
While the agility of a Spot or Atlas robot is something to behold, there’s a special merit reserved ...
Watch a plane land itself truly autonomously for the first time
A team of German researchers has created an automatic landing system for small aircraft that lets th ...
This solar array expands itself at the right temperature
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a solar panel that’s only there when the sun shines on it? T ...
GPS on the Moon? NASA’s working on it
If you’re driving your car from Portland to Merced, you probably rely on GPS to see where you ...
NASA picks a dozen science and tech projects to bring to the surface of the Moon
With the Artemis mission scheduled to put boots on lunar regolith as soon as 2024, NASA has a lot of ...