Author: Matt Simon

You don’t typically find philosophical bickering at an FDA public meeting. But then again, lab-grown meat is no ordinary topic.

A new online sim computes how and where a robot should grip objects like vases and turbine housings. You can even upload designs of your own objects.

Rat invasions ripple across an island ecosystem into places you’d never expect—including all the way into surrounding coral reefs.

Human drivers struggle to figure out something as simple as whether someone will cross the road. Just imagine how robocars feel.

By drawing on prior experience, a humanoid-ish robot can watch a human pick up an apple and drop it in a bowl, then do the same itself, even if it’s never seen an apple before.

By drawing on prior experience, a humanoid-ish robot can watch a human pick up an apple and drop it in a bowl, then do the same itself, even if it’s never seen an apple before.

Understanding the animal's genes could help combat shrinking habitats and an epidemic of chlamydia.

How exactly do you obliterate potentially tens of thousands of pounds of cannabis across the state? Not unlike how you get rid of yard trimmings.

Nature knows what it’s doing, and roboticists are more than happy to steal evolution’s ideas to make a plethora of curious and clever machines.

A new system lets robot drones to navigate an obstacle course with 100 percent accuracy—that is, the robots almost never crash and explode.