Years ago, I was asked by a major tire manufacturer to develop a training video on wheel end safety. After working with this company’s engineers for a few months, we decided that we would attempt to ...

Inspired by the remarkable strength and efficiency of dung beetles, researchers have developed robots that mimic the beetle’s unique object-rolling mechanics. A new study explains how dung beetles ...

Earlier this month, Google AR & VR announced that ARCore phones could detect depth using just a single lens. Object blending is now beginning to roll out in Google Search AR. Using a single RGB camera ...

While there are now a number of robotic hands that can grasp objects, it's usually impossible to change a grasped object's orientation within the hand without releasing it. A new robotic hand is able ...

Galileo’s rolling of spheres down an inclined plane four centuries ago disproved Aristotle’s notion that falling (or rolling) objects move at a constant speed. That was one of the earliest examples of ...

Have you ever noticed big things last a long time? All big things: Animals, machines, rocks. But is there some greater law of evolution that makes this so, connecting both animate and inmate life on ...