When 12-year-old Matteo Mucchetti mapped out an amusement-style attraction that he wanted to create in his family’s basement and then showed it to his older brother Nico, the high-school sophomore was ...

From study buddies to health care helpers, Purdue professor Sooyeon Jeong is designing robots that listen, respond and build ...

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Get shared CAD, firmware, and a simple HTML interface for Sesame, helping you customize looks, motions, and power without guesswork.

A robotics maker has showcased a functional laundry-folding robot prototype made in under 24 ...

How to make a robot with a box is a fun and creative project that children and adults can enjoy at home or in school. Using simple materials ...

As popular as the game of chess is, it has one massive flaw. This being that it requires two participants, which can be a ...

Most polymers don’t mix—and that’s the point. Polymer alloys succeed by engineering the interface: use thermodynamics to predict separation, processing to sculpt morphology, and compatibilizers to ...

What is it about a cheetah's build that enables it to run so fast? What gives the wolf its exceptional endurance? While these questions can be partly answered through animal experiments, many ...

Weave’s Isaac 0 can’t fold large blankets, sheets, or inside-out clothes, and still needs help from human teleoperators.

I’m not above doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the cash register for random merch booths, and even hawked my own plasma at $35 ...