If smartwatches are going to create a gadget future beyond smartphones, they’ll have to up their game. Researchers…
DARPA is working on the next-generation of fighting vehicle. And instead of making them safer through extra armor,…
While I talked with the legendary roboticist Red Whittaker in his lab at Carnegie Mellon, a half-moon shaped remnant…
Though it may look like a spider, the legs of this hexapod are actually made from the same technology that allows…
The star of the new Disney-Marvel movie Big Hero 6 is a poofy robot named Baymax who can assess your health with a…
It's impossible enough to find a decent apartment these days, let alone the humans to share it who won't dismember…
In addition to completely freaking us out, it turns out that the robotic snakes being developed at universities like…
Science fiction has given us a vision of the future where humans might one day enjoy super-strength and abilities…
We expect our devices to know what's going on. Automatic doors, smartphones, temperature control systems and beyond…

We already have autonomous robots that can drive, fly, swim—even operate in space. And now, thanks to researchers…
Anyone who's ever done any home renovation knows what a messy job removing paint can be. But imagine that instead of…
Today the US Department of Defense announced that they would be collaborating with Carnegie Mellon University to…
In a basement at Carnegie Mellon University, a computer is reading the web. It's been doing so for nearly nine…
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs have developed a system of "whack gestures" that could…
Remember that bizarre, inflatable touchscreen with buttons that crawled out of Carnegie Mellon University's labs a…
The adorable pink counterpart to Prime-8, Penbo is supposedly the "first real robot for girls." It uses the same…
What's special about Bossa Nova's Prime-8 robot—a $100 descendant of DARPA and Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute's…
The same algorithm developed by the government to protect people from applying for fraudulent social security…
A couple of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, apparently tired of this whole touchscreen vs. button debate,…