A Cornell student's light sail, which weighs only 0.2 pounds, was released from the International Space Station by astronauts ...

By studying how grasshoppers glide and fold their wings, researchers are finding new ways to extend flight time for ...

Wing is bringing drone delivery to even more Walmart stores in 2026. The Alphabet-owned company announced today that its ...

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China’s experiments in clean energy can feel like living in the future. Even when things don’t quite work. By The New York Times By Keith Bradsher | Visuals by Qilai Shen As an American reporter ...

Videos of humanoid robots dancing, doing cartwheels, putting clothes in a washing machine, and serving drinks are all over social media. And tech CEOs are telling us to prepare for the forthcoming ...

In the future, a caregiving machine might gently lift an elderly person out of bed in the morning and help them get dressed. A cleaning bot could trundle through a child’s room, picking up scattered ...

United Parcel Service Inc. will invest $120 million in 400 robots used to unload trucks, according to people familiar with the matter, revealing new details on the logistics giant’s $9 billion ...

Navigating in a microgravity environment is a challenge even for trained human astronauts, but it is even more challenging for autonomous robots, limiting their use in places like a space station. Now ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

The tech industry has become obsessed with the idea of humanoid robots, bipedal androids designed to complete tasks on behalf of their flesh-and-blood counterparts. But as many experts have argued, ...