Complex new artificial muscles could let a duck lift an entire car
Soft robots that look like complex Origami structures could one day be used in a variety of fields for all sorts of different tasks, including …
Soft robots that look like complex Origami structures could one day be used in a variety of fields for all sorts of different tasks, including …
Advancements in AI are happening at a breakneck pace, and they have been for some time now, but computers aren’t infallible. Some very interesting new …
Apps like Camera+, Instagram and Snapchat have made it fairly easy to turn decent mobile photos into something a bit more appealing to the eye, …
If you’ve been following HBO’s hilarious Silicon Valley sitcom, then you’ll instantly giggle when you see MIT’s new food app in action. One of the …
The iconic white cane has helped provide empowerment and mobility for generations of visually impaired people and has now received a high-tech update courtesy of …
Drones can’t stay up in the air for too long because they’re limited by battery life. Self-driving cars, on the other hand, are limited by …
All those movies about robots taking over the world and destroying mankind put some terrifying thoughts into our minds. What if that’ll actually happen in …
3D printing has slowly gone from a curious novelty to a totally viable option for creating all kinds of useful things, from chocolate to athletic shoes, …
Voice-based artificial intelligence assistants can understand human speech better than ever. But while AI can decipher our words and context to deliver fast results and …
The bright minds at MIT are always cooking up new technologies, so to hear that they invented a new material that’s stronger than steel isn’t …
A new study from the MIT found that a fleet of 3,000 four-passenger ride-sharing cars from services like Uber and Lyft could virtually displace the …
We’ve all been there: You find yourself at a massive public event, whether it be a concert, a sporting event or a political rally and …
Remember the MIT’s RoboBee? The initiative kicked off a couple of years ago, aiming to fix a major problem that we currently have: the bee …
PC and smartphone users tend to have a love-hate relationship with wireless networks. It’s great to have Wi-Fi Internet at home, at the office, and in …
While some scientists from MIT are busy reinventing intersections and looking at ways to completely remove traffic lights, others are studying ways to create better …
In addition to increasing safety on the road, self-driving cars might help us achieve something else: speed up daily commutes by removing the need for stoplights. …
When it comes to the Internet, we’re all incredibly impatient. It doesn’t matter that we had to wait several minutes for a single web page …
Remember in the Matrix movies how humanity in the future was reduced to serving as the batteries for powerful and intelligent machines? Well, some researchers at …
Here’s a clever technological breakthrough that could help the environment in two ways. MIT announced this week that some of its researchers have figured out …
Given recent news that popular online anonymity tool Tor might not be as completely secure as many of us had assumed, we were intrigued to see …
Over the past several years, the touchscreen interface has increasingly become one of the most common ways that we interact with our electronic devices. Our …
Leave it to the brilliant minds at MIT to come up with a device so technologically advanced that you’re not quite sure if you should …
The stuff that’s going on in the robotics world these days is absolutely mind blowing. Of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the …
Remember Boston Dynamics’ robot cheetah that can run at speeds topping 28 mph on a treadmill indoors, and which now belongs to Google? Well, that’s not …
Being able to extract audio from a soundless visual recording is something that intelligence agencies will likely one day use – if they don’t already do …
Living in the desert no longer has to mean being parched for drinking water. MIT has posted a video this month that shows how some …
FingerReader is the name of a wearable gadget that could help visually impaired people read printed text in books and even on electronic devices, thus …
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a radar-like 3D motion-tracking system that can spot body movement through walls, Engadget …
The engineering minds at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology scoff at the eight-core processors being used in the next-generation Xbox and PlayStation consoles. PCWorld reports …
Some believe a future full of massive, gesture-controlled computer displays like the ones seen in Twentieth Century Fox’s Minority Report are an inevitability, and a …