The origins of consciousness date back about 540 million years ago, when animal bodies became more complex. Feelings like ...

As a technological leap, robotic surgery is India’s opportunity to dissolve geographic inequality in healthcare.

This is the evolution of face masks, marked by the greatest masked performances in NBA history. Tatiana Schlossberg, John F ...

What keeps roller coasters on the track and riders safely in their seats? This video explains roller coaster safety, the ...

Why did humans evolve the eyes we have today? While scientists can't go back in time to study the environmental pressures ...

Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? The famous question, though implausible, reflects a ...

Environmental change doesn’t affect evolution in a single, predictable way. In large-scale computer simulations, scientists ...

Why can’t a robot do the dishes? Well, it can, but maybe not as well or as cheaply as we’d hoped. More than once, I have started a robotics article with an appeal to the Jetsons tv show of the late ...

Each robotic system at UHN is equipped with virtual reality (VR) simulation capabilities and a teaching console that enables ...

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We ...

Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.