No one has had a Synchron brain-computer interface longer than Rodney Gorham. He's still finding new ways to use it.

Forward-looking: When engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) set out to rethink the human hand, they removed one of its defining constraints: attachment. The result is ...

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The nervous system does an astonishing job of tracking sensory information, and does so using signals that would drive many computer scientists insane: a noisy stream of activity spikes that may be ...

A soft patch on the arm could soon let you steer robots with simple hand movements, even while your whole body is in motion. That is the promise of a new wearable system from engineers at the ...

What if the future of industrial automation could fit in the palm of your hand? Imagine a robot arm so compact it could rest on your desk, yet so precise it operates with sub-micrometer accuracy, a ...

A soft armband that lets you steer a robot while you sprint on a treadmill or bob on rough seas sounds like science fiction. Engineers at the University of California San Diego have now built ...

Abstract: This paper presents a complete modeling-to-validation workflow for an inverse dynamics controller applied to a two-degree-of-freedom planar robotic arm, incorporating high-fidelity ...

Meet Sparrow, Cardinal and Proteus. They’re the robots that, step by step, are replacing human workers in the company’s warehouses. By Karen Weise Karen Weise reported from Shreveport, La., and has ...

With a gimbal-mounted camera and some AI smarts, you could potentially have your phone compose better shots for you, take better selfies, and follow your face while you're on a video call. I just ...

Chinese smartphone company Honor is trying to shake up traditional device hardware with a new "robot phone." The company revealed the device will have a camera that folds out from the back of the ...