Soft Robotics: What a Flexible Body Can—and Cannot—Do
How soft robot bodies, onboard power, sensing and control fit together—and how to evaluate what a laboratory demonstration actually proves.
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Desktop 3D Printing: How to Judge a Useful Part
Evaluate desktop 3D printing through process choice, material behavior, dimensional checks and repeatability, beyond the appearance of a finished model.
Electric Flight: Why the Battery Is Only Part of the Aircraft
Understand aircraft batteries at the system level, from usable pack performance and thermal protection to the lessons of NASA’s X-57 program.
MIT’s HERMES humanoid robot seeks emotion
Watching MIT's HERMES mimic the moves of his inventor, Joao Ramos, is almost like watching a child learning to dance by imitating his father.
Tesla’s Model S to provide autopilot in coming weeks
Elon Musk has announced plans to provide Tesla's Model S autopilot feature to a small pool of users on August 15. But will it succeed?
Legoland living: replacing conventional roads with plastic
Prefab type plastic roads made of recycled bottles may be the best answer to overcoming traffic, pollution and construction expenses.
Step inside Masdar City, a place unburdened by roads, traffic and pollution
If you haven't heard about what makes Abu Dhabi's Masdar City experiment so special, now's the time. There's never been a city like this!
Generation Twitch: how millennials are shaping social media
Twitch.tv is more than just a platform for gamers. Twitch represents nothing less than the future of social media with the potential to ensnare us…
Researchers invent interactive holograms you can touch
Researchers have invented a way to project three-dimensional holograms made up of tiny points of light called voxels that respond to human touch.
Google’s new ‘Inceptionism’ software dreams psychedelic art
Google's latest foray into artificial intelligence--Inceptionism--tasks an artificial neural network with creating art through a series of images.