NC State engineers 3D-print paper-thin magnetic muscles that turn origami robots into moving drug-delivery machines.

How linear, rotary, reciprocating and oscillating motion are evolving as customization grows and new capabilities emerge.

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Amazon’s new Vulcan robot uses touch to grab products from shelves, making warehouses faster, safer, and more efficient.

The device is designed to follow users or adjust angles during interaction, with the expectation that it will be ideal for use on a desk or kitchen counter to help with household or work tasks. The ...

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...

In 1977, the Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope received an unusually strong narrowband radio signal, leading to widespread excitement about the possibility of having encountered evidence ...

A fireball lit up the night sky for hundreds of miles over California on Thursday night, stunning onlookers in its path. More than 200 people from San Francisco to Reno reported seeing the celestial ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Nearly a year after saying goodbye to Southern California and hello to Park City, Utah, Jasmine ...

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A Colorado driver captured video of a dangerous incident that happened in Centennial this week when a passenger in a moving pickup truck threw a heavy object in the air and it struck her windshield.