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"Affordable" Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicle concept has a range of 200 miles
Two of the biggest obstacles to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) have been their prohibitively high prices and limited ranges. Chevrolet's new Bolt EV concept seeks to tackle both of...
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NASA drops mini robots into volcano for science
Space may be vast, but the planets can be pretty cramped – especially when it comes to volcanoes. This is unfortunate because the difficult to navigate fissures that are a major volcanic feature...
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Special delivery: Hitchhiking microparticles deliver drugs directly
Disc-shaped microparticles use monocytes to get to their destination. Credit: Peter Allen illustration Inflammation is a normal and often beneficial response to injury or infection. The swelling, heat...
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Voxel8 paves the way for 3D-printed electronics
The 3D printers of today can produce objects that may be quite intricate in shape but, by and large, these objects are still made solely of "dumb" plastic. This may be about to change thanks to the...
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Snake Monster robot can be easily reconfigured to suit user needs
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has created a new robot that has six legs, looks creepily like a spider when it walks, and is dubbed "Snake Monster". Not exactly endearing traits, but the Snake...
View ArticleDuke Researchers Create Artificial Human Muscles
As a representative of M.U.S.C.L.E., I find artificial muscles a bit unseemly. However, researchers at Duke University have been able to grow their own twitching tissue, a first that could allow...
View ArticleElon Musk Donates $10M To Make Sure AI Doesn’t Go The Way Of Skynet
Tesla and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has gone on record before proclaiming the potential risks of artificial intelligence, and now he’s putting his money where his mouth is. The intrepid inventor...
View ArticleVision system for household robots
New algorithm could enable household robots to better identify objects in cluttered environments. For household robots ever to be practical, they’ll need to be able to recognize the objects they’re...
View ArticleResearchers push artificial intelligence to a new level with ‘machine learning’
New developments in artifical intelligence will actually be able to predict upcoming solar flares. The Solar Dynamics Observatory gathers data on the Sun and it does it well. As a matter of fact, it...
View ArticleRice-sized laser, powered one electron at a time, bodes well for quantum...
Princeton University researchers have built a rice grain-sized laser powered by single electrons tunneling through artificial atoms known as quantum dots. The tiny microwave laser, or "maser," is a...
View ArticleTechnology Trends 2015: Back To The Future?
Over the holidays I watched ‘Back to the Future II’ (or ‘Back to the Future Eleven’ as my son thought) with my children. I forgot the 1989 film sends Marty McFly and Doc Brown back (or is it forward?)...
View ArticleMeet the $1 Million Robot You Can Buy on Amazon
A robot that takes its cues from its operator's facial expressions to shoot at enemies is now for sale on Amazon, suggesting that you can buy just about anything on the e-commerce giant's website....
View ArticleDisney Invents an Adorable Robot for Making Giant Sand Drawings
Disney has long been a hotbed of robotic innovation, from the audio-animatronic Abraham Lincolns in its theme parks to the vision of drones in Wall-E. The Mouse’s latest electromechanical project,...
View ArticleThe Meccanoid, a 'build-your-own robot' for kids by Meccano, launches today
For more than a century, children have been building trains, cars and cranes with Meccano. Now the model construction set has been given a technological makeover for the smartphone generation. This...
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Laser-generated surface structures create extremely water-repellent,...
University of Rochester 's Professor Chunlei Guo has developed a technique that uses lasers to render materials hydrophobic, illustrated in this image of a water droplet bouncing off a treated sample....
View ArticleUpgraded Atlas Robot to Go Wireless as the Stakes Are Raised for the DARPA...
Expanded $3.5 Million prize structure will reward progress made by DRC teams A total of $3.5 million in prizes will now be awarded to the top three finishers in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), the...
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Nanobot micromotors deliver medical payload in living creature for the first...
Micro-motor powered nanobots have delivered a nanoparticle compound directly into the gut tissue of a live mouse (Photo: Shutterstock) Researchers working at the University of California, San Diego...
View ArticleHarvard, Yale scientists develop technique to make GMOs safer
Two teams of scientists from Harvard and Yale have reached a crucial milestone in the effort to build synthetic life forms: a powerful way to prevent genetically modified organisms from escaping into...
View ArticleTeen Launches GoFundMe Campaign to 3D Print Prosthetic Arms You Can Control...
The project that’s brought LaChappelle into prominence involves a chance meeting he had with a little girl using a prosthetic limb that cost upwards of $80,000, and that got the young engineer and...
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Teleportation: Researchers Able to Relocate Objects Via Scanning & 3D Printing
Although 3D printing is only a blip on most intellectual property (IP) lawyers’ radars right now, I envision a time in the not too distant future where this all will change. It’s safe to guess that...
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