Disney Research is working with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany to make robots move and interact with humans in a less awkward and uncomfortable way. They are developing a more natural approach to the problem by studying how humans interact.
From competing in Jeopardy to working in hospitals, now IBM's Watson is going to take your calls. He's got a job in customer service.
A recent study suggests that Australia could power its entire national domestic infrastructure using only solar power. The University of Melbourne has now introduced a new organic PV cell printer that rolls out a functional binder page sized sheet of solar panel every two seconds. Production has just gotten cheaper and a whole lot faster.
Romanian computer expert Valentin Boanta was caught in 2009 for supplying thieves with skimmers they used to gather information to create fake bank cards and steal cash from ATMs.
This video created by Felix Pharand is for the opening of the Bonn meeting in Germany, where it is meant to highlight major global water research and track the shift in power and the unsettling consequences to come.
A new program by Onformative will give us a bird's eye view of every facial landform on Earth. You know, the kind that looks like a face.
According to Microsoft, the new Kinect is so sensitive that it can see the slightest movement of your wrists and fingers and can amazingly sense your heartbeat too.
It took nearly eight years for Microsoft to come up with another iteration for the Xbox. So how do you something that fans are able to recognize and are inspired by?
The Xbox One announcement didn't only include the console, but news that a new installment of the Halo franchise is making its way to you in the form of a live action television series. Steven Spielberg will be directing.
Insects rely on compound eyes that have lower resolution but offer a much wider distortion free field of view that's better suited for lightning fast motion perception. Researchers are working to design autonomous drones that will behave like futuristic artificial bugs.
When you perspire, your shirt tends to get drench in sweat. But there are fabrics that are designed to wick the sweat away. To feel really dry, researchers at UC Davis have created a fabric that literally drains the sweat away.
Leave it to Axe to make a dude breaking into a ladies house into the leading man. Obviously, this is just an ad, because what's sexier than being burgled by a dude with super slick hair: