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While robots have the advantage of strength and durability, a lot of leading-edge research these days focuses on how to modify them so they can do more than navigate across open layouts and perform more delicate tasks within confined…

As anyone who’s bought a new car in the last decade knows, automotive technology has changed dramatically. Whether it’s the collision avoidance or parking assistance features, our vehicles increasingly make decisions for us. But as both…

Johns Hopkins University researchers’ findings about mosquito wing aerodynamics could help build quieter drones—as well as devise nontoxic methods to trap and exterminate the pests. It turns out mosquitoes flap their wings not just to…

By June of 2019, 43% of U.S. broadband households planned to buy a smart home device before the end of the year. And by May of the same year, almost a third of American households already owned at least one smart speaker. Concerns about…

Researchers have developed a way to use 3D printing to create a preform that can be drawn into silica glass optical fibers, which form the backbone of the global telecommunications network. This new fabrication method could not only…

Over the past 15 years, researchers at Ultimate Holography in France have been working to build a hologram printer that possessed all the positive characteristics of a hologram printer but without the drawbacks like expensive lasers, slow…

While remote interaction with robots is fairly straightforward, proximate interaction is far harder to get right as we incorporate robots as part of a mixed human:robotic teams. Recently an all-female interdisciplinary group of researchers…

Designed to be stronger and far less easily damaged than humans, increasingly robotic research focuses on developing robots with fine motor skills. After watching the 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake, tsunami and subsequent Fukushima…

The need to lessen our reliance on fossil fuels by using biofuels has been fraught with controversy. Dealing with fossil fuel lobbyists has not been the only challenge. The food vs. fuel debate over using arable land to grow biomass capable…

Robotics researchers look for inspiration not only from the humans with whom they’re designed to interact, but also at other species. Amphibians, with their sticky tongues and stored elastic energy, can catch insects located up to…

AI and IoT adoption increase as leaders target revenue growth, faster planning

Researchers can extract a lot of valuable information from evolution. That's what happened when a Harvard engineering team looked at jumping spiders. These small arachnids have impressive depth perception despite their tiny brains, allowing…

Shaped to make air move faster over the top of the wing and decrease air pressure to create the force to generate lift, the leading edges of aircraft wings have to meet a very demanding set of characteristics. New research shows that a…

The problem with black box AI systems for automated decision making is that the decision-making process is neither transparent nor is it absolutely free from possible biases the algorithms may inherit from human prejudices hidden in the…

While even physicians may not always be able to explain how their so-called “clinical eye” works, it’s undoubtedly a factor in providing good patient care. Algorithms designed to work within clinical constraints are being used more and more…