With just a transistor and sensor coil, a new DIY motor achieves continuous motion without complex external electronics.

Abstract: Robots built from soft materials will inherently apply lower environmental forces than their rigid counterparts, and therefore may be more suitable in sensitive settings with unintended ...

ST’s VL53L5CX is a very small 8×8 grid ranging sensor that can perform distance measurements at a distance of up to 4 meters. In a recent video,[Henrique Ferrolho] demonstrated that ...

One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics ...

Realbotix, which showed its humanoids at CES 2026, illustrates how technology can mature past adult entertainment, writes columnist Oliver Mitchell.

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 ...

The company's Motion Sketch feature lowers the barrier between abstract imagination and concrete video outputs. But like all generative AI tools, it has its shortcomings.

In the software realm, agentic AI models, platforms that can serve as assistants for researchers, also stood out. Executives ...

Austin-based robotics startup Apptronik has raised more than $500 million in new funding, pushing its latest round close to $1 billion as it scales production of its Apollo humanoid robot.

Arduino is a microcontroller designed for real-time hardware control with very low power use. Raspberry Pi is a full computer that runs operating systems and handles complex tasks. Arduino excels at ...