Researchers at the University of Konstanz have uncovered a new mechanism of sliding friction: resistance to motion that ...

Apple continues its plans to beef up virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR) features on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The company has filed for a patent for “methods for interacting with virtual ...

By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to help fetch the right objects.

Space is a vast and infinitely expansive area with many things we know little about. If we look at how our Solar System moves ...

Whether in the kitchen or on a workshop floor, robot assistants that can fetch items for people could be extremely useful.

Volunteer astronomers sifting through infrared images from a retired NASA telescope have spotted a faint object racing ...

Teaching a humanoid robot to move naturally is less a software trick than a data marathon. Behind the polished demos of ...

A mama bear scratched a woman walking her dog in a Los Angeles suburb on Saturday.

Diesel Puppet’s Hidden Objects 2 follows the genre and core mechanics of its conceptual predecessor, Hidden Objects.

A joint research team has developed the first 4D printing technology built from industrial ...

New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand human intent.

Barbara is a tech writer specializing in AI and emerging technologies. With a background as a systems librarian in software development, she brings a unique perspective to her reporting. Having lived ...