China has developed a neuromorphic electronic skin that lets robots feel touch, detect injury, and react to pain with ...

Researchers from MIT have designed an interface that allows a robot to tap into the reflexes of a human controller to eradicate typical robot clumsiness. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and ...

You body is performs miracles you're not even aware of. Beneath the surface of your conscious actions lie a network of powerful, involuntary reflexes. These quick responses are hardwired by evolution ...

A study on the illusion titled "The Eye Pupil Adjusts to Illusorily Expanding Holes" has been published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. For 86% of people, looking at the central black ...

As much as we’d like to think that we’re entering an era of autonomous robots, they’re actually still pretty helpless. To keep them from falling down all the time, a human’s fast reflexes could be the ...

Character animation is hard at the best of times. Hollywood and games-industry animators long ago turned away from traditional "keyframe" animation for creating large quantities of realistic character ...

Human beings are born with innate reflexes that come from deep within our primitive brain. As the prefrontal cortex develops within the first year of life these reflexes disappear from the central ...

Robotic boots providing superhuman reflexes can help your balance. Our new study shows that the key to augmenting balance is to have boots that can act faster than human reaction times. When people ...

H-Reflex, experiment, directed by Dr. Douglas Watt of McGill University, will help us to understand exercise requirements for astronauts during extended spaceflights. It may also lead to improvements ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Imagine being trapped inside a collapsed building after a disaster, wondering if anybody will be brave enough to rescue you. Suddenly, a door bursts open, and standing in the ...