Here’s another thing robots can do better than you: backflips. Boston Dynamics, the MIT offshoot company now owned by Japanese tech giant SoftBank, showed…
Offsite manufacturing of infrastructure reduces delivery time by up to two-thirds and considerably expedites the construction process. In this B1M special report, Fred Mills…
Taking design cues from origami, robotician Jamie Paik and her team created "robogamis": folding robots made out super-thin materials that can reshape and transform…
By combining math with 3D printing, researchers from Boston University have created a new material that seemingly defies logic: Light and air have no trouble…
".. could be the biggest event in the history of our civilization. Or the worst. We just don’t know.” “a fundamental risk to the…
Ordered by NASA, Lockheed Martin has started construction of its supersonic X-plane, which could travel from New York to London in 3 hours. The plane,…
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said they have successfully flown the first "solid state" airplane that has no moving parts and…
Newly developed edible organic coating solution increases the shelf life of fruits and vegetables, keeping them fresh and flavorful. A Santa Barbara-based startup called…
When ionic salts, made of bundles positively and negatively charged particles, dissolve in water, the bundles break apart, leaving positively and negatively charged particles…
Nico is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at University of Oregon and Director of the Urbanism Next Research Initiative. He pulls…
Aaswath received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University and is passionate about improving the efficiency of energy systems. In this TED talk,…
Do you remember when the Boston Dynamics robot called Atlas could walk on (gasp!) uneven ground a couple of years ago. Since then, we…
The data revolution is sweeping the modern world, in this small documentary by The Economist, we are shown - among other things - how…
The HRP-5P is a humanoid robot from Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute. The last iteration, HRP-4C, strived to make the robot seem…
In the future, smart textile-based soft robotic exosuits could be worn by soldiers, firefighters and rescue workers to help them traverse difficult terrain and…
Today, we rely on robotic spacecraft to extend our senses above and beyond Earth and to blaze a trail as precursors for human explorers.…
Scientists want to power the world with solar and wind energy, a feat they say is possible with large-scale wind and solar farms. Now, an…
Wind propulsion firm Norsepower announced that it has completed the installation of two of its Rotor Sails aboard the LR2 tanker Maersk Pelican. At 30…
Submarines can't normally communicate directly with anything above the water due to the physical limits of their signal, but that might change in the near…
Researchers at UC Berkeley have found a way to copy the movements of a subject’s body in one video, and then generate a new video…