DARPA scientists and researchers have their hands in lots of different areas. From robots to ammunition to wearables and beyond, they are far reaching to say the least. Their latest project is a somewhat unnerving to me though. DARPA are working on a cortical implant that would give the user... Read more

US Navy and Virginia Tech engineers have been developing SAFFiR, the humanoid firefighting robot, for an number of  years now. It looks like SAFFiR is now a few steps further than the initial prototype stage of development as the military division has demonstrated what SAFFiR is capable of doing on... Read more

As smartphones get increasingly smarter, it makes sense that we should be able to control more things from just one place. So here are some cool products that you can pair with your smartphone, which will hopefully make your life a bit easier. ICEdot's Crash Sensor Image 1 of 9... Read more

Thanks to scientists and sci-fi movies everyone seems to have a genuine fear of a robot uprising but take solace from these following GIFs. They prove that at best, most robots are still just clumsy pieces of metal that are reliant on humans to program them properly. Here are a... Read more

The Japanese car manufacturer Nissan and cutting edge technology specialists NASA are working together to advance the technology behind cars that drive autonomously. NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California and Yokohama-based Nissan Motor Co. announced on Thursday of this week, a research-and-development partnership for autonomous vehicle systems that... Read more

In other news of the day, another restaurant staffed mostly by robots has opened in the Hefei, Anhui province of China. This one’s slightly different than some of the others, as it is named Wall.e – you know, like the Disney/Pixar robot? It’s anyone’s best guess as to how long... Read more

3D printing is great isn’t it? We can design and print almost anything, from houses to cars. Since the advent of 3D printers, we didn’t have to wait too long before someone created the world’s first 3D printed laptop. The Pi-Top 3D printed laptop has broken its funding target on... Read more

A new open-source robot called ARTI has been designed that can conquer stairs with no problems at all.  The freshly public Ground Drone Project are the guys behind this marvellous feat of engineering that has been in development for a couple of years now. The robot’s developers focused their minds on the... Read more

A teenager from Greece, Angelos Getsis, has won in Google’s Science Fair 2014.  The young man has claimed a prize for creating a pair of smart glasses, which can assist blind people in navigating their way around the city. The 17-year-old from the city of Arta, Greece, has said that the glasses... Read more

In the United States, educational experiments are in progress, which allows students to spend more time out of the classroom.  A key aspect of these experiments include mobile devices that redefine the old Victorian model of teaching, increasing performance in students by making learning fun!  Imagine that!  On top of... Read more

For those of a certain age, a small black box with a rainbow logo and rubber keys brings back many fond memories. The ZX Spectrum was a 8-bit computer that loaded it’s games from a cassette tape and was the progenitor of many a bedroom programmer. Despite it’s obvious limitations,... Read more

How do you like you boss(es) at work? Are they good at their jobs? Are they fair? Do they make good decisions? What happens when things go wrong in the workplace – how do they react? It’s obvious there are good and bad bosses out there, but if a recent... Read more

The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) in collaboration with Lockheed Martin, have successfully conducted, what the military calls a fully autonomous resupply, reconnaissance, surveillance and target-acquisition demonstration.  This was undertaken using something called a Squad Mission Support System (SMSS) unmanned ground vehicle, a K-MAX unmanned... Read more

We all know it can be dangerous to pick up random strangers on the side of the road, but what about robots who need a ride? If you do any traveling in Canada, there’s a small chance you might’ve seen a random robot on the side of the road, sticking... Read more

I don’t know what you envision when you think about the future of military technology. Do you see robots all over the battlefield? Do you picture drones doing most of the fighting? Do you view human soldiers as becoming obsolete at some very real point in time? I don’t know... Read more

The application of 3D printing is becoming more varied with each passing day.  I mean, disabled children are getting a new lease of life with 3D printed tools to assist them in their daily life.  Designers are able to 3D print their creations to get a better feel for their... Read more

The first news-reading android has been revealed in Japan.  It comes with a sense of humour and perfect language skills.  The youthful looking ‘Kodomoroid’, (which means child android) has delivered the news about an earthquake and a FBI raid.  Reporters in Tokyo are amazed. The pitch-perfect Kodomoroid was paired with... Read more

What is the most annoying thing about creating really expensive technology?  The cost right?  I mean, firms must spend stacks of cash on research and development and watch their ideas time and time again get broken or damaged beyond repair.  The clever boffins behind the tech must feel gut-wrenching pain... Read more