Abstract: Millimeter-scale magnetic rotating swimmers have multiple potential medical applications. They could, for example, navigate inside the bloodstream of a patient toward an occlusion and remove ...

Amazon is expected to see billions of dollars a year in cost savings as it automates more of its logistics processes. CREDIT: AMAZON The retail giant unveiled a trio of new technologies Wednesday that ...

European roboticists today released a powerful open-source artificial intelligence model that acts as a brain for industrial robots—helping them grasp and manipulate things with new dexterity. The new ...

Abstract: Recent advances in 3D printing technology have made it possible to produce functional objects and structures applying a variety of 3D printing processes and materials. This opens up new ...

Clean and nearly unlimited fusion energy is being realized with the help of a Chinese robot arm. The Doctor Octopus-like system will perform maintenance inside future fusion power plants. Its strength ...

The footage, which shows Nick Wray guiding a robotic arm to bring a straw to his mouth, marks one of the clearest real-world uses of the brain-computer interface developed by Neuralink. With more than ...

I recently wrote about my experience of having my feet scanned for a bespoke pair of 3D-printed sandals- and now they’re finally here. Promising ‘yacht-inspired architecture’ and developed in ...

Affordable, versatile, incredibly strong and locally available, concrete is the world’s most used manmade material. But it also has a huge carbon footprint, accounting for around 8% of global ...

As police departments around the country report a surge in 3D-printed firearms turning up at crime scenes, gun safety advocates and law enforcement officials are warning that a new generation of ...

Most modern smartphones are basically rectangles with a touchscreen on the front and a couple of cameras on the back. Every now and then a phone maker gets the bright idea if introducing a flip-out ...

A research project exploring jet propulsion in bionic underwater robots, inspired by the razor clam (Solen strictus). Two different propulsion mechanisms were designed, simulated, and tested to study ...