Robots have captured our collective imagination ever since we first made machines. From robotic soldiers to metal pop stars, meet some of the bots that are blurring the borders between human and machine!
Scientists have built the world’s most capable construction robot--it can 3D print foam domes and work with local materials like gravel or even ice. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2q94nxP
A new study suggests that drug-sniffing dogs may soon have a competitor in the workplace: an insect-piloted robotic vehicle that could help scientists build better odor-tracking robots to find disa...
Our hands don't just hold things-- they need to sense pressure and texture in order to help us grip and manipulate. This robot hand can detect bumpy patterns and even feel things like softness--wat...
Two of every three alleged injuries related to vaccines have been dismissed over the past 30 years by the US's vaccine court. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2pjjvpn
Deputy Editor Leslie Roberts reports on a health crisis in Nigeria where hunger amplifies infectious diseases for millions fleeing the violence of Boko Haram. Learn more: http://scim.ag/2oIuLhl
Every summer Ashlee Rowe of Michigan State University spends a few weeks in the southwestern United States catching bark scorpions by the light of the moon. These stinging critters carry venom that...
At the Dream & Nightmare Laboratory at the University of Montreal, Elizaveta Solomonova is searching for expert dreamers: people who can visit dream land and report back accurately what they see, h...
Kate Prigge of the Monell Chemical Senses Center studies what things smell like—to us, to canines, and to machines. By using many different sensing technologies, from mass spectrometers to working ...
Amy Apprill of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution studies the tiny microbial hitchhikers that tag along as the humpback whale makes its way across the globe. Learn more: http://specialproject...