Newswise — At human scale, controlling temperature is a straightforward concept. Turtles sun themselves to keep warm. To cool a pie fresh from the oven, place it on a room-temperature countertop. At the nanoscale — at distances less than 1/100th the width ...
Boston Dynamics and other robotics companies are looking to break their solutions out of the lab and get them into commercial spaces. While this ...
Job interviews are rarely enjoyable, but the one I had the other Friday morning was more agonising than most. First, it took place in the reception area ...
Amazon's autonomous robot delivery service is starting in California. The Amazon Scout robotic delivery vehicle has been in test mode just outside ...
Remember how the Board of Supervisors was talking about banning all sidewalk delivery robots two years ago? Well that didn't happen, and instead, ...
Although robot helpers might seem like an idea for the future, Toyota has been developing “partner robots” since 2004 to help people who can't move ...
Are humans with robots an order of magnitude better than humans without robots? It's the question the Army's Maneuver Center for Excellence is ...
Earth's magnetic field seems steady and true—reliable enough to navigate by. Yet, largely hidden from daily life, the field drifts, waxes and wanes. The magnetic North Pole is currently careening toward Siberia, which recently forced the Global Positioning ...
The answer to “How did the first organisms on Earth incorporate the critical element phosphorus?” has been a quandary for researchers, but, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa physical chemists believe a meteoric visitor could be the critical link. Phosphorus is a ...
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science have developed a human eye replica that's actually capable of blinking. But don't worry, they're not going to team up with the researchers creating robot muscles to ...