Critics worry Lego’s new Smart Bricks will dull children’s imaginations by replacing free play with lights and sounds. That ...

Measuring just 200 by 300 by 50 micrometers — smaller than a grain of salt and roughly the size of a single-celled paramecium ...

It’s encouraging to see Lego use technology to innovate on its standard bricks, but it should also make use of the ...

A knob can make a surprisingly versatile interface, particularly if it’s the SmartKnob, which builds a knob around a BLDC ...

Abstract: This study presents the development, characterization, and demonstration of a tunable substrate for small jumping robots. Jumping robots in the literature are typically evaluated when ...

Dismo Industries' Cyber Fidget combines an Arduino-like microcontroller with machined aluminum and clicky buttons for a fidget toy that doubles as a programmable geek multitool.

This repository provides the environment used to train engineai-robots (and other robots) to walk on rough terrain using NVIDIA's Isaac Gym. It includes all components needed for sim-to-real transfer: ...

The robot, shown on a fingertip for scale. Credit: Marc Miskin/University of Pennsylvania The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can ...

Four generations of teachers, a Nobel Prize winner, and a kicker with the New Orleans Saints are among those who have graduated from Northern Ireland’s only Catholic higher education institution. St.

The bleeding edge: Nanomachines were once a distant fantasy of science fiction writers and video games like Deus Ex and Metal Gear Solid. However, recent advances in miniaturization have brought those ...

A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still "sense, think, and act" autonomously, according to the engineers who built it. To the team's best knowledge, this joint invention is the world's ...