Artificial Intelligence AI Might Now Be as Good as Humans at Detecting Emotion, Political Leaning, and Sarcasm Maybe machines aren't so hopeless at detecting nuance after all.

The number of scientific papers that rely on AI has quadrupled, and the scope of problems AI can tackle is expanding by the day.

Tech Stratolaunch’s Hypersonic Plane Breaks Mach 5 and Lands Without a Pilot The Talon-A2 vehicle air-launched from the world's biggest aircraft and piloted itself at hypersonic speeds before landing ...

Kawasaki recently revealed a computer-generated concept for the Corleo, a “robotic horse.” A video shows the automated equine galloping through valleys, crossing rivers, climbing mountains, and ...

The AI builds a world model of Minecraft without human input and “imagines” future scenarios to improve its decision making.

Scientists just unveiled the world’s tiniest pacemaker. Smaller than a grain of rice and controlled by light shone through the skin, the pacemaker generates power and squeezes the heart’s muscles ...

A paralyzed woman can again communicate with the outside world thanks to a wafer-thin disk capturing speech signals in her brain. An AI translates these electrical buzzes into text and, using ...

Robotics These Tiny Liquid Robots Merge and Split Like ‘Terminator’ Made of teflon and water, the robots could one day shuttle drugs around the body.

Robotics This Robotic Hand’s Electronic Skin Senses Exactly How Hard It Needs to Squeeze The hand can gently pick up anything from plastic cups to pineapples.

Science Scientists Discover Thousands of New Microbial Species Thriving in the Mariana Trench The project explores how life adapts to extreme environments—and hopes to inspire new drugs or even ...

The small device contains a slurry of chemicals representing primary flavors and mixes them together to mimic the taste of coffee, lemonade, and more.

With their bright blue bases, yellow gears, and exposed circuit tops, the 3D-printed robots look like a child’s toys. Yet as a roughly two-dozen-member collective, they can flow around obstacles ...