21+ hour, 42+ min ago   (939+ words) Why can a robot do a backflip but struggle to fold a shirt? The answer is surprisingly complicated. A humanoid robot can run, jump, dance, and even perform a backflip, yet ask it to fold a shirt, pick up a…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (475+ words) The sensors operate at a fraction of a degree above absolute zero. Researchers in the US have accurately measured X-ray emissions from a total of three radioactive elements, including uranium, plutonium and neptunium, with ultrasensitive quantum sensors. The sensors were…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (457+ words) Anthropic says it disrupted five cases in which researchers used Claude in ways that could have supported biological weapons development. The company said it could not establish whether the researchers intended to cause harm. It still blocked the activity because…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (523+ words) Nanoscale signals attributed to battery ion movement can actually be false artifacts caused by surface roughness. KAIST researchers discovered that a signal long believed to show ion movement inside batteries is often just an optical illusion caused by rough surfaces....

1+ week, 16+ hour ago   (360+ words) By embedding tiny dielectric structures inside the semiconductor, researchers created a laser that can control light in a new way. A laser does not always need a perfectly repeating pattern to produce a clean beam. The device produced single-mode lasing…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (98+ words) The exoskeleton is powered by a four-motor HyperDrive Pro system. Hypershell has introduced the Halo full-leg exoskeleton. This is the company’s latest development in wearable robotics. Engineered to assist users across walking, hiking, and tackling demanding, varied terrains, the device…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (529+ words) A newly measured surface state could help explain why partially oxidized copper behaves differently as a catalyst. Scientists have discovered that an oxygen-rich layer forming on copper surfaces during the earliest stages of oxidation behaves much more like metallic copper…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (373+ words) Students moved from simulated motion development to physical robots, using Sim2Real tests to demonstrate obstacle walking, K-pop choreography, backflips, and windmills. Korean firm ROBOTIS has launched the Open Humanoid GYM Project, an open-source program giving students hands-on experience developing behaviors for…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (542+ words) Type One Energy has received Tennessee’s first fusion-specific license for its planned 400 MW stellarator power plant. A 400-megawatt fusion power plant using a stellarator design is moving closer to construction in Tennessee after Type One Energy received the state’s first…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (101+ words) Interesting Engineering Almost every machine that needs to stay balanced relies on sensors, computations, and corrections thousands of times a second. Feedback control is so entrenched in modern engineering practices that stability and sensing have become nearly synonymous. Long before…...