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The algorithm could be useful for pilots flying in turbulence.

This “Psychic Robot” Can Read Your Mind

Researchers have created an algorithm that understands what movement you meant to make, even if you’re interrupted

A marionette performs atop a Matsuri float

In Japan, Autumn Means a Parade of (Not-at-All-Creepy) Robot Puppets

A 350-year-old festival in Takayama celebrates creativity — and contains the seeds of modern robotics

The sign language capture device

This Wearable Device Translates Sign Language To English

The prototype detects hand and finger movements and turns them into words on a screen

New Research

This Starfish-Killing Robot Could Help Save The Great Barrier Reef

Reef-eating starfish beware

The Innovative Spirit

This Bionic Suit May Be the Future of Prosthetics

Inventor Scott Summit is personalizing medical devices through 3D printing

Eric Byrnes acts as the voice of the digital umpire as the San Rafael Pacifics play the Vallejo Admirals.

Are Robot Umpires Coming to Baseball?

Now that a computer has covered home plate at a minor league game, what’s next?

Engineers at Cambridge University created a robot that could build and improve on other robots, in an artificial form of natural selection.

New Research

Watch a Robot Evolve

It’s the mother of all robots

New Research

This Robotic Insect Can Jump on Water

Why? Because it’s cool

Dario, an eight-year-old Colombian boy who lost his arm due to a congenital malformation, tests out Torres' prosthetic arm design.

Cool Finds

Kids Can Build Their Own Lego Prosthetics

Prototype system brings a bit of fun to prosthetics

Scripps oceanographer Eric Terrill and BentProp founder Pat Scannon investigate the main fuselage of a TBM Avenger lost 70 years ago during a bombing mission near Palau.

Cool Finds

Divers Turn to Robots for Help Scouring the Pacific for Long-Lost WWII Soldiers

An ongoing effort to recover those missing in action teams military historians, volunteers and scientists

The robot from Toshiba sporting two cameras

Cool Finds

This Scorpion-Shaped Robot Will Enter One of Fukushima’s Reactors

The nuclear power plant’s owners still don’t know exactly what is going on inside the three reactors that melted down

Unlike the tails of almost all other animals, seahorse tails are more like square prisms than cylinders.

New Research

Why Seahorses Have Square Tails

Engineers show that the animals’ prism-like tails are mechanically superior to cylindrical ones

NASA is starting to brainstorm where humans should land on Mars.

Cool Finds

Where Should Humans Land on Mars? NASA Wants to Hear Your Suggestions

In October, the agency will hear proposals on where to put a Mars base

Tiny Robots Can Clear Clogged Arteries

Engineers at Drexel University are developing micro-swimmers that loosen arterial plaque and release drugs into the bloodstream to prevent future buildup

Cool Finds

In the Future, Grocery Stores May be More Like ATMs

Robots and motion detection expand the idea of what it means to shop

Team WPI-CMU’s robot climbs over cinder blocks during the finals of the DARPA Robotic Challenge

Trending Today

Worried About the Robot Takeover? Here’s a Video of Robots Falling Over

It’s like humanoid robots have ended adolescence — awkward clumsiness abounds

New Research

Researchers Are Training Robots Using Minecraft

The popular game helps robots learn real-world skills

Seven Inspiring Innovations In Education From Around the Globe

American schools, start taking notes! There may be some things to learn from these successful programs

Cool Finds

An Imagined Catalogue of Self-Assembling Furniture

The furniture of the future will put itself together

Trending Today

Why Astronomers Are Fighting Back Against Robotic Lawnmowers

It’s a feud fueled by radio frequencies

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