Stars that are similar to the sun in every way we can measure are mostly more active than the sun, which hints that the sun’s activity may ramp up someday, risking solar eruptions

SpaceX’s first crewed launch is planned for 27 May and will be run from a mission control with desks set six feet apart to comply with social distancing protocols

From vintage satellites to lunar rovers, space archaeologist Alice Gorman is teasing out a unique history of humanity from the objects we've dispatched from Earth

About 80 per cent of stars in the Milky Way’s central bulge have relatively close encounters with another star, which can fling off any planets orbiting them

Earlier this week, a depressing economic prognosis linked on the Drudge Report concluded: "A whole lot more pain is on the way, and it is going to shake our nation to the core."

Megyn Kelly's exclusive sit down with Tara Reade

You may have noticed, as a mere citizen of this country, there are many things you are not supposed to know. You are not mature enough or intelligent enough to handle certain information. You are in, in effect, a child in a supposedly democratic republic.

The Trump-Russia collusion investigation was an elaborate and intentional hoax, staged by the most unscrupulous and power-mad political operatives this country has ever seen.

The country faces the same problem today it did two months ago: There are not enough tests to contain the virus.

The overlooked epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic is our nation's nursing homes, veterans' homes, and other long-term care facilities.

A new computational method allows robotic characters to perform fast motions without excessive vibrations

Get ready for the first scored event in DARPA's latest Grand Challenge

Roboticists share what they've learned so far from DARPA's Subterranean Challenge, and how they readied their bots for the next event—the Tunnel Circuit

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Supporting long-range communications inside of a mine is extremely difficult, so DARPA SubT teams are trying out some creative approaches

A new automated lab bench combs through known chemical reactions to figure out how best to synthesize compounds

Beam now belongs to a Danish robot venture factory

With mapping and semi-autonomous navigation, even you can drive a Double 3

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The FAA’s app—which tells you where you can and can’t fly your drone—ignores both local and national regulations

Consultancy firm Certified Artificial, which is offering to certify AI companies, has demonstrated its prowess by rating the expertise of Elon Musk and Henry Kissinger

To take off from the water, this drone uses an explosion-powered water jet

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The OpenAI project demonstrated "emergent behavior" by the AI players, including surfing

Little swarm robots that can't do much on their own can use their random behavior to accomplish tasks like locomotion

The creators of Kiki believe they can build an emotionally engaging social home robot that is also "completely useless"

Lucas Joppa, founder of Microsoft's AI for Earth program, is taking an engineering approach to environmental issues

Mid-air docking of flying batteries can massively extend the flight time of a drone

Rigid IT departments and job-hopping data scientists are just two of the challenges that make implementing machine learning harder than you might think

John Deere, the nearly 200-year-old tractor manufacturer, now considers itself a software company

In their search for killer apps, robotics companies should look at the amazing evolution of computers

A Facebook executive challenges the Arm processor community to create tech building blocks for augmented reality glasses

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The topography and bathymetry payload for UAV

Experts representing a diversity of views on autonomous weapons systems collaborate on a realistic policy roadmap

Self-driving cars and medical robots need an infant’s understanding of physics to succeed

A new two-way teleoperation system sends your motions to the robot and the robot's motions to you

New York City study shows that drones could deliver life-saving medical supplies several minutes before an ambulance arrives

Leaders in Silicon Valley—both the real one and the fictional one on HBO—started this week by debating the responsibilities of tech companies

The machine would use an “alphabet of human thoughts” and rules to combine them

As always, our coverage will feature the coolest, weirdest, and most interesting things that we find at this massive robotics conference

Microsoft's AI could enable its popular chatbot to comment on news, but critics see a tool for spreading disinformation

Michael Kratsios, the fourth U.S. Chief Technology Officer, explains administration policies at the Fall Conference of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

Spacecraft propulsion systems are ready for China’s daring touchdown attempt on the red planet

Shannon's said: “OCRO HLI RGWR NMIELWIS”

Argonne will use the CS-1 to help discover cancer therapies and understand colliding blackholes

Bosch SoundSee combines deep learning with mobile microphone arrays to identify problems on the ISS before they happen

Experts discuss technological inequality and the “reskilling” problem at an MIT conference

The bot learned language from people on Twitter—but it also learned values