Most polymers don’t mix—and that’s the point. Polymer alloys succeed by engineering the interface: use thermodynamics to predict separation, processing to sculpt morphology, and compatibilizers to ...

Fighting fires could be done remotely without the need to place firefighting crews directly in potentially dangerous situations by using collaborative teams of artificial intelligence-powered robots ...

From drones to robotic dogs, New York City's fire department is equipped with the latest high-tech devices with remarkable ...

Chelsea Hylton is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. An Inglewood native, Hylton has her master's degree from USC. She covers local breaking news across the Southern California region. Before joining ...

Crews from the Los Angeles Fire Department used a firefighting robot to help extinguish a blaze inside a tunnel in the Sepulveda Basin on Thursday morning. Firefighters responded to the fire around ...

Robotics firm DEEP Robotics has introduced its “Emergency Firefighting Solution,” a system that integrates AI to disrupt the traditional firefighting technology sector. The new platform was designed ...

Researchers have created a low-cost method for soft, deformable robots to detect a range of physical interactions, from pats to punches to hugs, without relying on touch at all. Instead, a USB camera ...

HONG KONG, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Chinese robotics firm UBTech said on Wednesday it had signed a deal with the world's largest planemaker, ‌Airbus, to supply robots for use in aviation manufacturing.

The University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital recently became the first in the Southeast to perform a kidney transplant using a robot. On Jan. 15, Drs. Michael Hanaway and Muhammad Rabbani ...

One of the joys of browsing secondhand shops is the possibility of finding old, perhaps restorable or hackable, electronics ...

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Engineers studying drone combat at one of China’s top military-linked universities needed a way to simulate clashes between drone swarms in real time. They turned to nature for inspiration. Observing ...