1+ week, 15+ hour ago  (1029+ words) This wristband makes you a robot puppeteer'Popular Science Robots are already better than humans at quite a few tasks. Try to outplay an AI-enabled system at chess or outlast a robot worker operating in rooms filled with radiation and you'd…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (411+ words) " Amazon Big Spring Sale: 100+ editor-approved deals worth buying right now " Published Mar 26, 2026 2:34 PM EDT "I hear the noise, so I look out, and I'm like, "What's going on?' and I see the robot," the barbershop owner told CBS." Neither Serve…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (424+ words) " Amazon Big Spring Sale: 100+ editor-approved deals worth buying right now " Published Mar 25, 2026 1:15 PM EDT After over four years of war, Ukraine's military says it's testing an exoskeleton in the field that can help soldiers more easily load artillery and run…...

3+ week, 12+ hour ago  (224+ words) Published Mar 13, 2026 3:00 PM EDT In other words, all that time users spent wandering around playing Pok'mon Go will now help determine how well a courier robot can deliver your take out. It's a stark example of how crowdsourced data, seemingly…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (108+ words) Published Mar 12, 2026 1:04 PM EDT Not too shabby for a pair of undergraduate students. The robot's attempts at breaking the record took place last year at the university, but were just made official by the Guinness World Records this week." "I…...

4+ week, 13+ hour ago  (510+ words) Published Mar 6, 2026 9:57 AM EST On wants to collapse all of that into about three minutes. The Swiss running brand, known for its clever, chunkyu sole geometry and a devoted following among runners, has been quietly building toward a manufacturing upheaval....

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (388+ words) Published Feb 25, 2026 11:00 AM EST "This project started with a simple question: why do basketball shoes squeak?" Adel Djellouli, a study co-author and materials scientist at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), said in a statement. Figuring out the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (190+ words) Published Feb 14, 2026 10:13 AM EST In this case, the Waymo detected the child once they came into view'but what if it could have "seen" them from around the corner? That is the general idea behind new research emerging out of the…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (147+ words) Published Jan 23, 2026 4:35 PM EST The robotic fin study was published this week in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. "This wasn't what we expected," Zhu said in a UCR blog post. "Instead of gaining extra lift near the ground,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (477+ words) Published Jan 22, 2026 10:27 AM EST Engineers in Switzerland recently created a detachable, spider-like robot hand capable of grabbing multiple objects and using its fingers to crawl. The unsettling device, reminiscent of a threatening video game creature, can separate itself from a…...