Tech Breakthroughs

The concept of robots that learn may seem relatively simply. We see robots and machines that are able to perform complex tasks flawlessly and many believe...

Many who have graduated from college and headed towards to the promised land of Silicon Valley in the last few years have dreamed of innovations,...

According to the New York Times, Google is secretly lobbying for legislation that would make self-driving cars legal in the state of Nevada. Google’s...

AeroVironment Inc. is the nation's largest provider of small drones, which are at the forefront of modern war tech .

Google made big news last year when the search giant announced it had developed technology for cars that can drive themselves .

Not content to robotically emulate any and all members of the animal kingdom, humanity has turned to another branch of the Tree of Life for inspiration: that…

Surely you remember the giant 1:1 Gundam Japan erected in 2009. Built by Bandai, the monolithic robot has stood watch ovef Tokyo and spawned many imitators in the last year and a bit. Some of you probably take a sort of

How cool is this? The answer, before you read any further or watch the video for additional information, is this: really cool. The Biological Cybernetics Lab at Tsukuba University here demonstrate a robotic arm that

BigDog The bot, called Athlete, is the brainchild of Ryuma Niiyama, a post-doctorate student at MIT, and uses pneumatic artificial muscles to simulate human…

A TECHi archive story on an MIT Kinect robotics demo, with context on how gesture control and depth sensing fed later robotics and AI systems.

Augmented Reality has been gaining popularity with the growth of smart phones throughout the world, and it appears that Coke Zero and Sausalitos, a german…

HUD glasses are finally affordable in 2025. Discover how smart glasses evolved, their real-world uses, and what to expect from wearable tech ahead.

Niklas Roy's workshop has a large window right in front. After getting fed up of passersby peering in, he...

Six Slovenian volunteers have been undergoing a bizarre test: being punched in the arm over, and over, and over, and over again by a robot. A researcher...

Google is innovating so quickly, at this rate we might actually have flying automobiles by the end of 2010. But in the meantime, how about just a car that...

As Toby mentioned yesterday, Apple is pretty adamant that the signal problem isn't their fault, citing in yesterday's press conference that the problem is...

If you're not good and rested, take a nap before continuing with this article - because you're never gonna sleep again. Bina and Martine Rothblatt are an...

Concerned less with bettering mankind so much as revelry, the team at Willow Garage has spent what I can only assume must've been an enormous amount of...

Huh. Well this sure is scary as hell. Remember Big Dog? This is every bit as terrifying, only this one flies....

Hey, y'know Bait Car? Bait Car is great. Bait Car is frequently hilarious. Bait Car comes from Canada. Bait Car has a website. If you're still lost, just...

I've always been terrified by diabetes. Not that I'm at any risk or anything, it's just the thought of living your life on this weird insulin countdown...

Techi is honor-bound to offer you totally rad (and routinely bizarre) things to read about, and I for one don't like to disappoint, so check this out. In...

I've been hearing this concept tossed around for years now, but apparently, it has now happened: Science (and may I point out that I capitalize 'Science'...

A robot car on its own is pretty cool, but couple that with the ability to learn...