Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Robot vacuums are amazing machines, but they can also be a pain in the arse. In my home, testing a new robot ...

For nearly a century, scientists have understood how crystalline materials—such as metals and semiconductors—bend without ...

Who gets in trouble when no one's driving? Police face an unsolved problem when a driverless car does something wrong.

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Each winter, as Delhi wakes under a grey sky and the air thickens with smoke, the city relives a familiar crisis. Schools close, flights are delayed, and citizens scramble for masks as the Air Quality ...

Our muscles are nature's actuators. The sinewy tissue is what generates the forces that make our bodies move. In recent years, engineers have used real muscle tissue to actuate "biohybrid robots" made ...

"To find peace, learn to lose." —The Tao Te Ching Humans, like wolves, are pack animals. Sure, we may fetishize individualism during times of abundance, but as the iconic Game of Thrones character Ned ...

Furry like real ones, endearing and incredibly comforting, robot pets are slowly but surely finding their way into homes. These little creatures, with batteries instead of hearts and AI hidden beneath ...