UMI gripper equipped with uSkin sensors and real-time tactile data visualization. Source: XELA Robotics Robotic gripping rarely fails because of a lack of mechanical strength. It fails because the system does not truly know what the fingers are doing at the moment of contact. That gap between commanded motion and actual interaction with the object…
Over dinner at a gaming convention around 2010, board game designer The five go-first dice, each with 60 sides, are designed so that any subset of players can grab one, roll and have an equal chance of winning. Each of these dice carries a unique set of numbers from 1 to 300. (Image credit: Eric…
Humanoid robots in Beijing have beaten a number of men’s athletics world records at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games, claiming high-water marks in the 100-meter sprint, the 400 m, 1,500 m and high jump. While these performances aren’t official replacements for the human records, as the robots competed under robot-specific categories and conditions, they…
Archaeologists were excavating in a Roman-period cemetery in Poland when they came across something extremely unusual: the grave of a man who was buried with two decapitated human heads, a necklace made from 42 mammal teeth, and a battle ax. That ax provided an important clue: He was actually from the Stone Age, three millennia…
The Romans are well known for their aqueducts, which brought water to their cities and settlements. These aqueducts sometimes ran for very long distances. For instance, the aqueduct of Valens, which brought water to the city of , a classics professor and chair emerita at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, told Live Science in an email….
Over a century ago, German pathologist Georg Schmorl documented a strange phenomenon: cells from fetuses that had moved into the mother during pregnancy. He had discovered microchimerism — where the cells from one individual move into another and set up shop. In the past few decades, scientists’ understanding of microchimerism has grown, thanks to technological…
The ARM Institute has over 500 member organizations and partners across industry, academia, and government. | Source: ARM Institute This week, the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, or ARM, Institute received nearly $90 million in funding for 10 projects led by the consortium and its members. The institute was awarded the funding through an Organic Industrial Base…
eCential says its open, modular platform allows it to collaborate with technology companies and implant manufacturers. | Source: eCential Robotics Enovis Corp., a medical technology company, this week said it entered into a binding offer to acquire eCential Robotics for €155 million, over $180 million U.S. eCential offers a modular surgical robotics platform for bone…
Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs), which charge and discharge by moving lithium ions between two electrodes known as the cathode and anode, remain the most widely used rechargeable batteries worldwide. Over the past decades, however, energy engineers have been assessing the potential of alternative rechargeable batteries based on different materials and ions.
When Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket suddenly , researchers analyzed data from special listening stations across the U.S. for signs of infrasound — ultra-low-frequency sound below the range of human hearing — that coincided with the blast. At least 36 stations picked up infrasound signals from the explosion, the farthest of which was located in…
