The Wisconsin State Fair announced its 2026 Sporkies and Drinkies finalists on Tuesday, April 28, ahead of the fair's Aug. 6-16 run.Eight food items are competing for the Golden ...

Thirteen sloths in the custody of Sloth World have been transferred to a Florida zoo after the exhibition site closed ...

In a near-future where AI sits in every household, an AI-powered robot police officer hunts a child it has flagged as a ...

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A simple bundle of staples reveals an unusual physical behavior, one that shifts between rigidity and fluidity depending on ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are developing a new class of "entangled materials" inspired by the ...

Vibration sensors can aid in stability and navigation, particularly for field robots in varied terrain, writes a columnist.

A tightly packed ball of office staples can be surprisingly strong. Try to pull it apart and the tangled metal resists like a ...

DNA robots are emerging as tiny programmable machines that could one day deliver drugs, hunt viruses, and build molecular-scale devices. By borrowing ideas from traditional robotics and combining them ...

When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that biases familiar from the human workplace resurfaced—and that the people making ...

I’ve never enjoyed cutting the grass. For years, I struggled with an old inherited gas mower that refused to die but often refused to start. Then I had a cheap electric mower with a cord that I had to ...

The robot, a pair of disembodied arms with crablike pincers at the end, wasn’t supposed to pick up the bag. It had been told to do a single tedious job: open plastic bags on a conveyor belt and stuff ...