Humans are being asked to help robots recognise the multitude of objects found in the average home. Swedish researchers are asking people to use their Xbox’s Kinect sensor as a scanner to grab detailed 3D [...]

Centeye is dedicated to computer vision. When we first wandered up to the suburban split-level that houses Centeye Inc., we were a bit confused. Could this be the place where a mad roboticist was building tiny [...]

The EyeRing project is still very much a work in progress Generally speaking, the vast majority of augmented reality applications that enhance the world around us by overlaying digital content on images displayed on smartphone, [...]

  Poised to reinvigorate the mobile industry Ocado, an online grocery store in England, prides itself on its delivery of refrigerated foods: When the company says the goods will arrive at a certain temperature, they [...]

Google’s experiment shows that having more processing power and more data makes a difference Working at the secretive Google X lab, researchers from Google and Stanford connected 1,000 computers, turned them loose on 10 million [...]

By synchronizing 98 tiny cameras in a single device, electrical engineers from Duke University and the University of Arizona have developed a prototype camera that can create images with unprecedented detail. The camera’s resolution is [...]

As manufacturing goes digital, it will change out of all recognition, says Paul Markillie. And some of the business of making things will return to rich countries OUTSIDE THE SPRAWLING Frankfurt Messe, home of innumerable [...]

The team’s research linked two scientific advances. Comic book hero superpowers may be one step closer to reality after the latest technological feats made by researchers at UT Dallas. They have designed an imager chip [...]

Programming robots to mimic human behavior remains difficult   Ever since Rosey the Robot took care of “The Jetsons” in the early 1960s, the promise of robots making everyday life easier has been a bit [...]

The robot blemish spotter can reliably identify diseases   A “learning” computer system that sorts potatoes has been built using off-the-shelf technology by researchers at the University of Lincoln’s Robotics Lab. The robot blemish spotter [...]

Inspired by biomimicry, sustainability, artificial intelligence and information technology in general   Charles Rattray’s vision of what the automotive industry will be capable of by the year 2030 is far more feasible that it may [...]

Catching a Wave, and Measuring It Mr. Gosling is transforming a fleet of robots that move out in the ocean to measure everything from weather to oil slicks, sharply reducing many of the costs of [...]