For Rodney Brooks, thinking up a better way to build robots was the easy part. It took him a dozen years and 14 failed business strategies to turn his idea into Roomba, the first profitable household ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The smell of melted plastic will be back. And if you know, you know. To honor 120 years of existence, the Memphis Zoo announced Tuesday the return of Mold-A-Rama — a vending machine ...

When the Roomba, iRobot’s autonomous vacuum, first zoomed onto the retail scene in 2002, it beat internal sales expectations and sold thousands of units. Disc-shaped and the size of a small dog, the ...

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Wireless Smart Neurostimulation System records from 10× more brain sites than current adaptive implants; a large-animal study demonstrates chronic sensing, neural-state decoding, and programmable ...

As a volunteer in high school, Osterhoudt was charged with scanning the sky and water near Hyde Park, New York, for threats. (Courtesy of Ralph Osterhoudt) Ralph J. Osterhoudt, now 96, was 15 when ...

We’re days away from Halloween, which means we’re days away from the release of the new Florence + The Machine album Everybody Scream, which drops on the 31st. In the home stretch of the pre-release ...

Christian supremacist worship leader Sean Feucht is heading back to Seattle for Revive in 25, and anyone paying attention should recognize this isn't just another stop on his revival tour. It's a ...

Festo’s Eric Rice explains two commonly used concepts “(software-defined automation” and “function integration”) in simple terms before contextualizing how Festo applies these concepts. The goal of ...