A research project considers how the law should deal with technologies that blur man and machine SPEAKING at a conference organised by The Economist earlier this year, Hugh Herr, a roboticist at the Massachusetts Institute [...]

A new manufacturing technique could help poor countries as well as rich ones EVERY summer, Seattle holds a raft race in Green Lake, a park that is the eponymous home of the water the rafts [...]

For decades, “bigger is better” has been the conventional path to efficiency in industries ranging from transportation to power generation. Food once grown on small family plots now comes overwhelmingly from factory farms. Vessels that [...]

The Coming Age of Enhancement IF a brain implant were safe and available and allowed you to operate your iPad or car using only thought, would you want one? What about an embedded device that [...]

CIROS is also capable of intelligently loading and unloading a dishwasher. Researchers from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology’s (KIST) Center for Intelligent Robotics (CIR) demonstrated their household service robot, CIROS, at Robot World [...]

New laboratory opens its doors with a symposium, a festival and seven new games MIT has established new game research facilities in the Karl Taylor Compton Laboratories (Building 26), where MIT’s first computer game, Spacewar!, [...]

The key to learning, Negroponte’s fellow panelists agreed, is to engage children rather than simply talk at them. Smart phones, tablets and video game systems are often seen as distractions to school children in developed [...]

The science behind it is closer than many people may think A dystopian society supported by genetically modified clone workers stands out among the six stories that make up the sprawling film “Cloud Atlas.” The [...]

Science can be mightier than the Sword In 1969, a great shadow was cast over the United States. That shadow, however, was not one of gloom. Instead of evoking the absence of light, this shadow [...]

LUIS VON AHN, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, sold one Internet start-up to Google in 2009, and is now on to another. With the new company, Duolingo, he hopes to tap the millions [...]

Understanding how the human brain categorizes information through signs and language is a key part of developing computers that can ‘think’ and ‘see’ in the same way as humans. Hiroyuki Akama at the Graduate School [...]

In the first study of its kind, researchers have found that numbers of women in the science, technology and innovation fields are alarmingly low in the world’s leading economies, and are actually on the decline [...]