A squishy robotic "eye" can focus automatically in response to light, without any external power. The ultrapowerful robotic ...

We love it when designers attempt to reinvent the mundane, and Netherlands-based inventor Dieter Volkers basically makes that his whole job. He combines squishy materials with traditionally rigid ...

A group of researchers asked AI to design a walking robot. The result was a robot that "looks nothing like any animal that has ever walked the earth," per the researchers. They weren't sure why AI ...

So many variables, uncertainties and new approaches are in play today across the chip industry today that previous rules are looking rather dated. In the past, a handful of large companies or ...

The future has arrived in the form of medical wearable devices. These devices are often comprised of a ridged box of electronics with a battery and some type of adhesive, so that it can attach to the ...

Walls that light themselves. Curtains that reflect radar. Blast doors made of foam. Five years ago, these were the domain of defense contractors and technophile billionaires. Now such breakthrough ...