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One-Eyed Bug Vision Helps Drones Land

Posted: 12 Jan 2016 08:08 AM PST



How instability in a drone's path tells it about its height

"Printing Press" Method Stamps Out Gold Nanoparticles With New Properties

Posted: 12 Jan 2016 07:00 AM PST



Process leads to a new kind of building block for assembling nanostructures with novel properties

Graphene Flakes Make Laser Neuron Superfast

Posted: 12 Jan 2016 06:01 AM PST



Chip's transistors are really lasers that spike with bursts of photons

No More Exploding Hoverboards? Stanford's Nano-Nickel Sheets Can Prevent Battery Fires

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 11:59 AM PST



A battery that shuts down before dangerously overheating and restarts when it cools may just be a matter of adding a bit of plastic and some nanoparticles

Telsa Feature Lets Cars Come When Called

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 11:06 AM PST



Right now customers can play with the feature at home, but in two years it could work cross-continentally

Nanotech Could Raise Incandescents From The Dead

Posted: 11 Jan 2016 09:53 AM PST



Tungsten filaments surrounded with resonating nanostructures could glow with luminous efficiency better than LEDs
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Video Friday: Kicking a Robot, TV Drone Crash, and Supernumerary Lightsabers

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 01:00 PM PST



Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos
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Hydrogen Adds Longevity to Laptops, Phones, and Drones, But Is It Practical?

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 08:00 AM PST



Intelligent Energy's fuel cell prototypes include a drone that can fly for up to two hours

Lessons from CES: How VR Can Avoid the Fate of 3D TV

Posted: 08 Jan 2016 07:30 AM PST



Early optimism that virtual reality is about to blossom into a new mainstream medium could collapse into despair

Little Dripper Builds Better Electrodes for Touch-Screens

Posted: 07 Jan 2016 12:06 PM PST



Better conductivity and transparency than ITO, but scalability remains on obstacle for 3-D printing process

Stable Perovskite Cell Boosts Solar Power

Posted: 07 Jan 2016 11:00 AM PST



Tandem solar cells aim to improve efficiency

Quanergy Announces $250 Solid-State LIDAR for Cars, Robots, and More

Posted: 07 Jan 2016 10:20 AM PST



The S3 is, according to its maker, better than existing LIDAR systems in every single way

A Renewable Supergrid in Russia

Posted: 07 Jan 2016 10:00 AM PST



A Finnish report shows that Russia could move to a 100-percent renewable energy system in the next two decades, though it probably won't
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Micro-Hybrids Hold the Key to Future Auto Fuel Efficiency

Posted: 07 Jan 2016 09:00 AM PST



Start-stop car technology may contribute more to auto efficiency than all-electric vehicles or fuel cells

Why Wireless Power Is the Most Exciting Thing at CES 2016

Posted: 07 Jan 2016 07:18 AM PST



It sounds like the future, but it's going to happen in 2016

Cooki: a Desktop Robotic Chef That Does Everything

Posted: 06 Jan 2016 11:30 AM PST



You'll never ever have to cook ever again, ever

CES 2016: Move Over TV, Appliances Are in the Spotlight

Posted: 06 Jan 2016 11:00 AM PST



Refrigerators and washing machines get tech upgrades; TV technology plateaus
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Toyota Takes Tech From Ford—Nixing Apple and Google

Posted: 06 Jan 2016 10:00 AM PST



Ford, on the other hand, is offering the tech giant's stuff alongside its own

Toyota AI Team Hires James Kuffner from Google Robotics, Will Have Rodney Brooks as Adviser

Posted: 06 Jan 2016 09:20 AM PST



Toyota Research Institute has announced its leadership team for AI and robotics research

Double 2 Telepresence Robot Has Better Stability, New Camera, and Turbo Button

Posted: 06 Jan 2016 06:00 AM PST



Double Robotics brings ludicrous speed to its latest generation of telepresence robots

Disco Adds Fixed Wing Flight to Parrot's Flock of Drones

Posted: 05 Jan 2016 06:25 PM PST



An eBee-inspired aircraft rounds out Parrot's drone fleet

Graphene Filter Could Change the Game in Nuclear Power Costs

Posted: 05 Jan 2016 01:00 PM PST



A scalable method for nuclear heavy water treatment offers a ten-fold reduction in energy requrements

Ossia's Cota Wireless Power Tech Promises to Enable the Internet of Everything

Posted: 05 Jan 2016 12:00 PM PST



Cota could be the most impressive wireless power technology we've ever seen
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CES is Dead. Long Live CES

Posted: 05 Jan 2016 09:00 AM PST



Innovation takes many forms on the showfloor

The Economics of Drone Delivery

Posted: 05 Jan 2016 08:49 AM PST



Drones currently perform poorly on the economic aspects of last-mile delivery, but there are better use cases to prove their utility

CES 2016: Complete Coverage of the Best Emerging Tech

Posted: 04 Jan 2016 02:02 PM PST



The IEEE Spectrum team on the hottest gadgets and technology trends

GM and Lyft Team Up for Robot Taxi Service

Posted: 04 Jan 2016 01:00 PM PST



The U.S. automaker will invest $500 million in the ride-sharing service to develop a network of on-demand autonomous vehicles

Climate Change Could Challenge the Water Needs of Power Plants

Posted: 04 Jan 2016 12:15 PM PST



The technology already exists to mitigate the impact

Get Back to Work: Amazon and Airbus Want Your Robots

Posted: 04 Jan 2016 11:55 AM PST



Two competitions for 2016 could get robots doing something useful for a change
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CES: The Engineer’s Scorecard

Posted: 04 Jan 2016 08:00 AM PST



What's hot—and what's not—on the showfloor says a lot about the state of technology
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