When Al Gore* invented the Internet, never could he have envisioned that it would become the existence-augmenting system it has become.
Just this...
It may not seem obvious, but if you want to know where you are, you need an accurate clock. This was true in the 18th century, when mariners first...
One of the coolest inventions I have seen recently is an adorable little robot named PLANTANIMAL. This autonomous garden-robot prototype was created...
Jason Bannister, chief artist and scientist of Mechanimal, a robotics company in Pittsburgh, designs, sketches and builds robots. In this episode he...
In addition to participating in NanoDays 2011, the Lemelson Center's Spark!Lab celebrated National Robotics Week during April with new robotics...
Robots are all the rage these days, already here or soon to come into our homes, our workplaces, our cities, and, of course, the military. "Science in...
"Engineers have to invent things, because that's their job, to develop something as a solution to a problem."As a graduate student at the...
Although he holds four patents for the Silver Falcon, a robot used for heart surgery, and has other patents pending, Akhil Madhani does not think of...
Today, Bill Gates—a Harvard dropout who founded the fabulously successful software company Microsoft—is one of the richest men in the world. And more...
