Exoskeleton

A new bionic knee brace is in the works from a team that includes experts from defense contractor Lockheed Martin. Building on advances in rigid exoskeleton suits, the new brace uses soft robotic actuators and compliant materials, making it lightweight and, t…

A full question on the higher level paper was built around the construction of state-of-the-art racing boats and the sophisticated materials used.According to ASTI subject representative Donal Cremin, the question was an example of how the paper tested both k…

Pollen is with you wherever you go. And that means it knows where youve been. Or at least, its a dead give-away in the hands of someone who knows what theyre looking at. That someone is Andrew Laurence, one of two forensic pollen scientistsknown as palynolog…

As soon as we hear about the AI in concern to automotive industries, the instant idea that comes in our mind is self-driven cars. But apart from these self-driven cars, AI is doing a lot more for the automotive industries. According to Ignite Stat, the value…

Dads are among the most difficult people to satisfy with gifts, which can make Fathers Day a slightly stressful time of year for the children of the world. But if the father in your life prefers to spend his Sundays away from the couch, basking in the glory o…

Full disclosure: I think all Level 2 semi-autonomy systemsthat is, every sort of partial self-driving system you can get in a car todayare stupid. Not because the technology is necessarily bad, but that these systems, like Teslas Autopilot, are just not compa…

After a period of prolonged hibernation, Men in Black is back for a fourth installment, this one stepping away from Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith to introduce a new generation of sharp-dressed alien wranglers in Men in Black: International. The franchise, ba…

Buck Rogers had Twiki. Luke Skywalker palled around with C-3PO and R2-D2. And astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) now have their own robotic companions in spaceAstrobee. A pair of the cube-shaped robots were launched to the ISS during an …

IMAGE: Maine fossils from Portugal are shedding light on Middle Ordovician, where there had been a gap in the fossil record. view more  Credit: Julien Kimmig / KU News Service LAWRENCE -- A clutch of marine fossil specimens unearthed in northern Portugal …

All photos by Ekaterina Busygina. Used with Creative Commons permission.It’s been a while since we last put the spotlight on the architectural photography of Moscow-based Ekaterina Busygina. Since then, we found out that she has done quite a lot of traveling …