TECH & INNOVATION

Seeing through a robot's eyes helps those with profound motor impairments

TECH & INNOVATION An interface system that uses augmented reality technology could help individuals with profound motor impairments operate a humanoid robot to feed themselves and perform routine personal care tasks such as scratching an itch and applying skin lotion. The web-based interface displays a "robot's eye view" of surroundings to help users interact with the world through the machine.

Hi-Tech Supermarkets

Grocery stores are technology's next battle ground. With technology aiding in nearly every aspect of life, it is not surprising that shopping is becoming more and more convenient.

The Grocerant: A Millennial Driven Hybrid

What do you get when you mix a grocery store and a restaurant? A happy Millennial. Millennials, the tech-savvy, information fueled, WiFi-is-life generation, are causing an enormous shift in the world of grocery shopping.

Toyota’s RV-like Lunar Rover

Toyota, no longer just for earthlings. Toyota plans to take off-roading vehicle design to astronomical heights, to the moon to be exact. The carmaker announced an upcoming collaboration with Japan's national space agency to design, develop and build the next generation of moon rover.

Recycling in Style

One-time use of plastic bottles could be the things in the past Have you ever wished there was something you could do to help minimize plastic waste? Well, now there is.

Scientists use a blender to reveal what's in our smartphones

Every year, 1.4 billion mobile phones are produced around the world. Many of us have more than one, but what are they made of, where do those materials come from, and what is the best thing to do with our devices once we have no more use for them?

Social Humanoid Robots: The Beginning of a New Race?

Artificial intelligence or artificial threat? Artificial intelligence is not a new science, but could it be the beginning of an entirely new race? As if it were ripped from a Hollywood blockbuster synopsis, robots with the ability to communicate, recognize people and learn new information are already amongst us.

Virtual time-lapse photos can capture ultrafast phenomena

Scientists at EPFL's Engineering Mechanics of Soft Interfaces Laboratory developed a new imaging method called Virtual Frame Technique (VFT) that can generate thousands of images of these phenomena as they occur step by step.

Blindness to be prevented through a hydrogel contact lens

Scientists discover that blindness can be prevented through a contact lens made of hydrogel University of New Hampshire scientists have synthesized a hydrogel to be used as a contact lens for treating corneal melting, a precursor for blindness.
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