Next Monday, Mandatory Drone Registration Begins
You have 30 days to register your personal drone online before the FAA starts charging a fee
Thin Films of Correlated Metals Could Replace ITO
Despite metal-like conductivity, this new class of materials has high optical transparency
Advertisement
Baidu's Robot Car Marks Self-Driving Milestone in Beijing
Search giant's self-driving car became the first to complete fully autonomous driving under mixed road conditions in China
"Hydricity" Would Couple Solar Thermal and Hydrogen Power
Sun-to-electricity efficiency of the system could approach 35 percent
Sorry for the Inconvenience
The empty apologies trotted out by companies and governments in the wake of IT debacles add insult to injury
Review: iRobot Roomba 980
An expensive new Roomba with features and performance to match
Freeze Ray! (Almost)
Crystals plus infrared beams bring water to near zero
Will Self-Driving Cars Get Nevada Certification In Time for CES Las Vegas?
Mercedes and Hyundai hope they'll be able to send their new autonomous vehicles out on demo drives
Billion-Dollar Non-Profit AI Research Lab to Open in San Francisco
Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman and others believe the world needs noncommercial AI research—and they’re hiring
Video Friday: Laser SnakeBot, Million Object Challenge, and Karma Is Coming
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
NIST Unveils “All-in-One” Robotic Millimeter-Wave Antenna Test Facility
Engineers soup up off-the-shelf robots to new standards of accuracy
Nanopillars Are Becoming the New Black in Photovoltaics
Nanopillars on the surface of photovoltaics are becoming a trend for allowing in more photons
Yahoo’s Engineers Move to Coding Without a Net
What happens when you eliminate test and QA? Fewer errors and faster development, say Yahoo’s tech leaders
Advertisement
Vehicle Safety Ratings Will Soon Include Marks for Crash Avoidance Tech
Starting in 2018, U.S. vehicle safety ratings will account for technologies meant to keep cars from crashing
Computer Learns to Write Its ABCs
Computer can not only write as well as humans, but invent new symbols
Investing in PhD Research Pays Off
Study finds that 40% of PhDs go to industry and boost economic growth
Renewables Grew to 15.5% of US Electricity Capacity in 2014
A report published by NREL found that more than half of energy capacity added in the US in 2014 was renewable
Look out Khan Academy, These Startups Want Your Students
Two education startups look to personalize online help for math and science classes
A New, Bottom-up Process for Tunable Nanostructured Germanium
Will porous semiconductors lead to more efficient photovoltaic cells and lithium-ion batteries?
ROS, the Robot Operating System, Is Growing Faster Than Ever, Celebrates 8 Years
From humanoids to industrial arms to self-driving cars, robots powered by ROS are everywhere
Celebrity Digital Dopplegangers
It may be possible to create digital clones of anyone
Bio-Powered Chips Might One Day Fit Inside Cells
New advance could also lead to chips that can smell, taste
Using Instagram to Teach JavaScript
Startup piggybacks on social media to make learning-to-code girl-friendly
Seismic Tools to Map Earthly Microquakes and Martian Dust Devils
New analytical approaches turn low-amplitude seismic data into insights about this world and others
Spy Agency Bets on IBM for Universal Quantum Computing
The U.S. version of 007's Q branch hopes IBM can take the next big step toward universal quantum computing
Small Tweaks to Its Recipe and "White Graphene" Could Change Electronics
Adding some small twists to chemical vapor deposition makes a hexagonal boron nitride that could make the perfect substrate for graphene
Smartphone Keyboard Teaches While You Text
Study for the SAT, learn another language, or sound like a cowboy when you send text messages
Fitting Old Cars With New Robotech
When self-driving cars become street legal, a world full of old cars will become ripe for retrofitting
Canny Robot Rocks Out to Audio Programming
Being programmable through headphones could keep Canny relevant for decades
RFID and Wireless Power Transfer Simulation
This article discusses the design and modeling of both low frequency (LF) and high frequency (HF) RFID devices using CST® STUDIO SUITE®.
The 2015 Top Ten Programming Languages
New languages enter the scene, and big data makes its mark
2015 Robot Gift Guide
The holidays are just around the corner, and it’s a good time to pause and reflect—about what new robots to get
Intel Talks Thunderbolt 3
One cable to rule them all, and it’ll be optical in 2016
Camera That Tracks Hidden Moving Objects Could Aid Rescue Missions and Avoid Vehicle Collisions
Laser light and special sensors let a camera see around a corner with centimeter precision
Here's a Peek at the First Sodium-ion Rechargeable Battery
Will sodium replace lithium as the material of choice for rechargeable batteries?
Lockheed's Drones Cooperate to Autonomously Put Out Fires
Stalker and K-MAX talk to air traffic control to safely operate while detecting and dousing fires
Solar Energy Isn’t Always as Green as You Think
Do cheaper photovoltaics come with a higher environmental price tag?
What’s Hard About Space Robotics? It’s Not Just the Technology, Industry Leaders Say
Among the challenges: competing with Facebook and Google, and figuring out how to integrate commercial technology into space programs
Laser-Induced Graphene Looks to Displace Batteries With Supercapacitors
Researchers continue to refine the process for producing laser-induced graphene that promises big changes in energy storage
Build a Wireless Water Meter for Your Home
Watch over your usage with an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi
Custom AI Programs Take on Top Ranked Humans in StarCraft
As far as StarCraft goes, humans aren't doomed (yet)
The Real Story of Stuxnet
How Kaspersky Lab tracked down the malware that stymied Iran’s nuclear-fuel enrichment program