Abstract: In robotic automation, compact layouts and the limited range of measurement devices often confine the robot’s calibration space, leading to ill-conditioned Jacobian matrices for length ...

When the Eureka City Council passed a contentious Vacant Building Ordinance a little over a year ago, owners of long-neglected buildings and blighted properties braced for hefty monthly fines, but the ...

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches its new orbital rocket for the first time with two NASA satellites that will fly to Mars to study the red planet’s atmosphere. Photo: Joe Skipper/Reuters Elon Musk and ...

At least 19 people were killed and several injured after two residential buildings collapsed in Fez, Morocco, shortly after midnight. The disaster sparked frantic overnight rescue operations as police ...

Equipped with temperature and salinity sensors, our Argo ocean float was supposed to be surveying the ocean around the Totten Glacier, in eastern Antarctica. To our initial disappointment, it rapidly ...

Discover how to build a mini vibrating robot spider using simple household materials. This step-by-step guide shows you how to use a small motor, copper wire, and button batteries to create a moving ...

A tiny robot explorer traversed the vast, frigid waters of Antarctica—even diving under the ice at one point. After miraculously surviving all that, the robot brought back souvenirs for scientists. In ...

Formalizing Occam’s razor as Bayesian model selection to understand simplicity preferences in human decision-making. Each panel shows accuracy with respect to maximum-likelihood solutions (i.e., the ...

OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman has explored putting together funds to either acquire or partner with a rocket company, a move that would position him to compete against Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Altman ...