Machine turns scrap paper into squeaky-clean new sheets ready for printing
The paperless office has been promised for years without fully materializing. In terms of sustainability, Epson's new machine is the next best thing.
What’s the carbon footprint of A.I.? This clever tool breaks it down
Deep learning A.I. powers all sorts of technologies. It may be helping to power climate change as well.
Disney Research’s robotic eyeballs have a freakishly humanlike stare
Disney Research has built a robot with uncanny valley-like gaze interaction that’s so realistic you'll be convinced you’re looking at a real person.
Conservationists plan to build a giant doomsday vault for threatened coral reefs
How do you back up the world’s endangered coral supplies? Simple: With a giant, ultrasecure above-ground bunker in Australia.
This basic human skill is the next major milestone for A.I.
CausalWorld is a virtual world that lets robots learn about cause and effect. Here's why that has big implications for the future of A.I.
For $200, this nonprofit will harvest ocean microplastic and put it on your face
The world’s oceans have a big problem when it comes to waste plastic. These pricey sunglasses could help. Here's how.
Record-smashing hybrid drone stays airborne for a crazy 10 hours, 14 minutes
The average consumer drone today has a flight time of between 10 and 20 minutes. This record-breaking drone has one that's, well, considerably longer.
Don’t drop your diet yet, but scientists have discovered how CRISPR can burn fat
This CRISPR gene-editing technique has been successfully demonstrated on mice so far. Could humans be next?
Pick up the pace: How the pandemic supercharged the evolution of exercise tech
Home workout equipment is in the midst of a technological revolution, and now that the pandemic has forced gyms to close, it is accelerating rapidly.
White Castle invests in burger-flipping robots to make fast food even faster
White Castle is upping its investment in Flippy robotic chefs for its kitchens, expanding from just one location to 10.
The plan to rid the world of potholes with a fleet of asphalt-spewing robots
Between this, robot delivery drivers and autonomous cars, the streets of the near-future are going to look very, very different.
The latest weapon in the fight against climate change? This heat-bouncing paint
Forget air conditioning. This white paint can cool buildings -- and most anything else -- below ambient temperature just by being applied to its surface.
Weather Channel’s mixed-reality forecasts take TV meteorology to a new level
TV weather forecasts have looked the same for years. Using some impressive mixed-reality technology, The Weather Channel is changing all that.
This groundbreaking new style of A.I. learns things in a totally different way
Machine learning needs to be shown large numbers of examples before it can successfully recognize objects. That could be about to change.
247 zeptoseconds: Scientists set a new record for the fastest event measured
Even the most dedicated of timekeepers would struggle to record the event recently measured by researchers from Germany’s Goethe University Frankfurt.
Got plant? The makers of the Impossible Burger are working on plant-based milk
Impossible Foods announced Tuesday that it is moving beyond plant-based meat and into another animal product in the form of plant-based milk.
This startup battles blazes with a fleet of firebombing drones
As the land burns, Dragon Eggs rain down from the sky, exploding into flames as they hit. A scene from Game of Thrones? No! A solution to a very real problem.
A.I. creativity is improving fast. This hilarious GPT3-generated film is proof
People have been training A.I. to write movie scripts for years, but this one is different. It showcases just how far A.I. creativity has come.
Open-Source Leg: The quest to create a bionic limb that anyone can build
Bionic prosthetics often cost upward of $100,000. But through the power of collaboration, engineers think they can build one for a tenth of that price.
Smoothie-making bot at Walmart signals the rise of the robot fast-food worker
You know that food preparation robots are going mainstream when they pop up in Walmart. Blendid's new smoothie-making robot kiosk in Fremont is only the latest.
The Navy wants a fleet of half-humanoid, half-wheeled robots. Here’s why
Sarcos Robotics has been developing cutting edge robot exosuits for decades. Now the Office of Naval Research wants to jump on board.
This inflatable e-bike is easily the most ridiculous product of 2020
This inflatable scooter concept developed by researchers in Japan could be tweaked by users to fit their own design requirements.
Facebook just saved the historic site where Alan Turing cracked the Enigma code
Facebook has made a donation to Bletchley Park, the English location that doubled as a center for Allied code-breaking during World War II.
VR lets scientists shrink down and ‘walk around’ inside their own cells
Remember the movie Fantastic Voyage where a submarine shrinks down to microscopic size to explore the human body? It's like that, but in virtual reality.
Scientists want to blanket the Earth in sensors. Their secret weapon? Moths
Manually installing sensors in every nook and cranny of Earth's surface would take eons. But what if we enlisted the help of our insect friends?