Spider-Man scales walls like, um, a spider. The Recon Scout Throwbot does the same thing using magnetic wheels. More »
The Boy Scouts, already no strangers to interesting, (if not controversial) modern-day badges like “video games,” have added what is an arguably more apt and useful skill to their badge-based repertoire: Robotics. More »
Have you met Suzette? If you have, you might not know it — because Suzette has passed the Turing Test. This chatbot convinced a judge that she was a human. More »
Robotics has made tremendous strides in replicating the senses of sight and sound, but smell and taste are still lagging behind, and touch was thought to be the most difficult of them all…until new pressure-sensitive electronic skin came along. More »
