Scientists in Switzerland have built a robot as small as a grain of sand. Surgeons control it with magnets and move it through blood vessels to place medicine exactly where it is needed. Bradley J.

A French startup named Robeauté has just raised about $29 million to develop a truly groundbreaking neurosurgical microrobot. Imagine a device no bigger than a grain of rice that can carefully ...

On a metallic door in San Francisco’s Mission District, a single character—“π”—offers a cryptic clue as to the virtuous circle of labor taking place beyond. The door opens to reveal furious activity ...

Artificial intelligence is seeping into daily life more like a slow tide than a tsunami, yet the companies building its infrastructure are already sketching out a world where robots are as common as ...

Elon Musk has spent the past few years promising that a general purpose humanoid worker is not science fiction but Tesla’s next big product. The question now is not whether Optimus exists, but how far ...

Electrical engineer Young Min Song remembers when his colleague at the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea asked him why the eyes of the numerous stray cats around the institute ...

The odds of making a hole-in-one are 12,500 to 1. Most amateur golfers will never realize this dream in their careers, but that doesn't keep us from trying to achieve golf immortality. Simply making ...

The goal is to make a boat that is so silent that it can cruise undetected or sit and wait in ambush like a barracuda. That's the goal of the EDA's €4.8-million (US$5.6-million) Submarine ...