When you think of robotics, you likely think of something rigid, heavy, and built for a specific purpose. New 'Robotic Skins' technology flips that notion on its head, allowing users to animate the ...

To be an inanimate object must be, I fancy, a very uninteresting affair. Certainly, being one appears to have a disastrous effect upon the disposition. No one who has had any intercourse with ...

This feature comes from our sister publication Arkansas Made, on newsstands soon and at arkansas-made.com. A self-described late bloomer, ceramicist Linda Lopez creates inanimate objects that teem ...

We give meaning to our world through the categorization of objects. When and how does this process begin? By studying the gaze of one hundred infants, scientists have demonstrated that, by the age of ...

Sign up for our Metro US email newsletter to get news, updates, and local insights delivered straight to your inbox! On the Sound of Music stage, Kevin Dixon is ...

How do painters create feeling and expression from inanimate objects—mere paint and canvas? We tend to think of such animating magic in masks from Africa or Papua New Guinea, donned by shamanic ...