Most of the floor in my home is hardwood or hardwood-adjacent, with only my living room having wall-to-wall carpeting. As such, I never gave much thought to using a robot vacuum to take care of ...

Inspired by the physical feats of diving birds, researchers have created a robot that can plunge into the water and flap back into the air. By K. R. Callaway With a flap of its wings, something ...

Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. On July 24, Salamanca City Central School District announced that it’s ...

The new BBC documentary is so wondrous and awe-inspiring it will make you feel like a child again – and in Chris Packham, it has a presenter for the ages Evolution is a coronation. With this new, five ...

Mechanical engineer Raphael Zufferey's lab at MIT contains a giant tank filled with bright turquoise water, an array of fans that can whip up a powerful wind, and small flying robots perched ...

Friendly home robots have been the dream of sci-fi for a long time. Docile, helpful machines that do your laundry, take out the trash, maybe make dinner, and clean up afterward too. But if robots are ...

In a world where self-driving robotaxis glide through major city streets without drivers behind the wheel and delivery drones autonomously fly through the skies to drop off orders at customers’ homes, ...

Explore the pivotal evolutionary breakthroughs that shaped every living thing Evolution, a new five-part series tells the extraordinary story of how life on Earth has changed over more than four ...