Science fiction tends to project the present into the future, and so its predictions are often suspect. That’s why we’ll see people send faxes in future worlds imagined years ago, instead of beaming ...

The new robot can learn from a demonstration and teach other robots what it knows.

The end goal is to make robot actuators that are part of the circuit board itself. The genesis of this idea came from Carl’s interest in drone design, in fact, he jumped right into a drone ...

The octobot is powered by a chemical reaction and controlled with a soft logic board. A reaction inside the bot transforms a small amount of liquid fuel (hydrogen peroxide) into a large amount of ...

Yet researchers who study nanoscale electronics usually wire up the nanometer-sized circuit components—carbon nanotubes, for example—using electrical contacts that are enormous compared with ...