SEOSAT-Ingenio’s lost promise for Earth observation

Spain’s satellite, the SEOSAT-Ingenio, was billed as the latest in high resolution land imaging technology. Originally,…

The Robot Dog Got a Job at Chernobyl

Spot, Boston Dynamic’s famous robot dog, has a new job: surveying the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site to…

What is artificial intelligence?

Everything you need to know about the history of AI, what we mean by ‘deep learning’,…

How do noise-cancelling headphones cancel sounds?

Noise-cancelling headphones use a phenomenon called ‘destructive interference’. Noise-cancelling headphones cancel out unwanted sound by creating…

Google reveals Mineral crop-inspecting robots

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has unveiled prototype robots that can inspect individual plants in a field,…

Cobots: Robots with a Human Twist

What Does an Integrated Future of Man and Machine Look Like? Read on about the growing trend towards cobots…

Here’s one way to harvest water right out of the air

Materials known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, collect the moisture for drinking and other uses Water…

Wiggly wheels might help rovers plow through loose lunar soils

This toylike model robot trundles over terrain in which simpler bots would get stuck A truly…

Will bacterial ‘wires’ one day power your phone?

These protein strings can pull electricity out of moist air anywhere. When Jun Yao started a…