The idea doesn’t come from science fiction anymore. It comes from limits repeatedly encountered in physics and computation. Space, time, and energy behave less like smooth continua and more like ...

The three hours Maksym spent being transported through the battlefield in eastern Ukraine felt like an eternity. Severely wounded and soaking wet, he was stuck inside a tiny, driverless armored ...

GXO Logistics will start using humanoid robots at warehouses "to help with a variety of repetitive tasks." The company will use Agility Robotics' bipedal (two-legged) "mobile manipulation robot" named ...

Some people think they can pull a fast one by “returning” something they’ve bought, but replacing the original with a knockoff and keeping the real deal. UPS’s return centers are using machine ...

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Seven-segment displays are needed in many instrument designs. In conventional microcontroller-based designs, four output port lines are allocated for one seven-segment display. Figure 1 shows the ...

iRobot, the maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaner, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday and is pursuing a buyout from its primary manufacturer in China after the company's acquisition by Amazon was ...

If there's one lesson iRobot founder Colin Angle took from the company's bankruptcy, it's never to underestimate competitors. On December 14, iRobot, maker of the popular robotic vacuum Roomba, filed ...