Exoskeleton

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 …

Im not sure how I feel about this new information, which comes from multiple sources who attended a test screening of the film. My first reaction to this information was that I hope it isnt true. But, after thinking about it, I am going to be open to the the…

Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Seawater is slightly basic (meaning pH is over 7), and ocean acidification involves a shift towards pH-neutral condi…

Lab-grown insect meat -- fed on plants, and genetically modified for maximum growth, nutrition and flavour -- could be a superior green alternative for high volume, nutritious food production, a study suggests. "Due to the environmental, public health and an…

Model-based control for exoskeletons with series elastic actuators evaluated on sit-to-stand movements