Video Friday: Aerial Manipulator, Car-Removal Robot, Robotic Limbs, and More From ICRA 2015 Posted: 29 May 2015 08:30 AM PDT  Video highlights from the world's biggest robotics conference  |
The Body Electric Posted: 29 May 2015 08:00 AM PDT  Engineers Dream of Electric Implants  |
IBM Watson's Recent Acquisitions Might Make It a Knowledge Machine You Can Actually Use Posted: 29 May 2015 04:27 AM PDT  Big Blue recently picked up a search engine, a Siri-like digital assistant, and an API that can understand text and images  |
The Vagus Nerve: A Back Door for Brain Hacking Posted: 29 May 2015 04:00 AM PDT  Doctors stimulate a nerve in the neck to treat epilepsy, heart failure, stroke, arthritis, and a half dozen other ailments  |
IBM’s Dr. Watson Will See You...Someday Posted: 29 May 2015 01:00 AM PDT  The game-show-winning AI struggles to find the answers in health care  |
The Race to Build a Real-Life Version of the “Star Trek” Tricorder Posted: 28 May 2015 10:00 PM PDT  Can a $10 million prize turn a sci-fi device into real technology?  |
Q&A: B.J. Fogg Explains Why Fitness Gadgets Fail Posted: 28 May 2015 08:30 PM PDT  Technologies that aim to change behavior shouldn't focus on motivation  |
Q&A: In the Quest for Personalized Medicine, Beware the Data Deluge, says Theresa MacPhail Posted: 28 May 2015 07:00 PM PDT  Big data is good for identifying gaps in knowledge but not so good for prediction  |
Self-Healing Actuators Make Breaking Your Robot No Big Deal Posted: 28 May 2015 06:37 PM PDT  Structural "fuses" that heal themselves could protect expensive robots from permanent damage  |
How Computer Modelers Took On the Ebola Outbreak Posted: 28 May 2015 04:00 PM PDT  Did real-time epidemic modeling save lives in West Africa?  |
CESAsia 2015: China’s Maker Scene Is Exploding Posted: 28 May 2015 04:00 PM PDT  The government is supporting maker spaces in a bid to boost industrial innovation  |
Q&A: You Should Get Paid for Your Biometric Data, Says Leslie Saxon Posted: 28 May 2015 03:00 PM PDT  Big companies could share revenue from the data you upload through fitness trackers and health apps  |
Supercapacitors Take Huge Leap in Performance Posted: 28 May 2015 12:56 PM PDT  Graphene-based supercapacitors enable nearly four times more storage capacity over previous versions  |
Origami Robot Folds Itself Up, Does Cool Stuff, Dissolves Into Nothing Posted: 28 May 2015 12:50 PM PDT  Tiny self-folding magnetically actuated robot creates itself when you want it, disappears when you don't  |
Big Data Beats Cancer Posted: 28 May 2015 12:00 PM PDT  One woman's fight against cancer in the new era of precision medicine  |
CESAsia 2015: China’s Consumer Tech Market Moves Upscale Posted: 28 May 2015 11:00 AM PDT  The future may be driven by the appetite of China's smaller cities for better goods and services  |