NASA aerospace engineer Tracy Drain has worked with the space agency for more than two decades, including on projects that ...

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With the start of another new year comes the return of Awesome Games Done Quick. This year's AGDQ event is underway, starting the first full week of 2026 in a big way. This week has brought together ...

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In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...

Having a good robot vacuum genuinely changed my life, but you no longer have to spend as much as I did to achieve the same experience. The Narwal Freo Pro is pretty much as good as mine, and it is ...

This article was commissioned in conjunction with the Professors’ Programme, part of Prototypes for Humanity, a global initiative that showcases and accelerates academic innovation to solve social and ...

A quiet economic subsector is emerging around humanoid robots, and it's already experiencing a variety of cybersecurity challenges. Joseph Rooke, director of risk insights at Recorded Future's Insikt ...

What if the future of industrial automation could fit in the palm of your hand? Imagine a robot arm so compact it could rest on your desk, yet so precise it operates with sub-micrometer accuracy, a ...

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