Harvard scientists have built a new type of flexible robot that is limber enough to wiggle and worm through tight spaces.

Electronics - Robotics

Nov 28, 2011 3.4 / 5 (5) 16

A custom-made machine for packaging mealworms infected with beneficial nematodes could improve the delivery, timing and use of the wormlike organisms as biological control agents.

Biology - Ecology

Nov 22, 2011 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA successfully completed the final flight in a series of tests of a new robotic lander prototype at the Redstone Test Center’s propulsion test facility on the U.S. Army Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Nov 22, 2011 not rated yet 0 |

The world's first prototype of a hand-held fingerprint drug testing device has been created by UK technology company Intelligent Fingerprinting.

Technology - Engineering

Nov 10, 2011 not rated yet 1

Milk is about to get a whole lot safer for consumers, thanks to Concordia University researchers who've developed a new instrument to detect harmful foreign substances in dairy and other products.

Technology - Other

Nov 09, 2011 not rated yet 0

Robotics researchers in Munich, Germany, have joined forces with Japanese scientists to develop an ingenious technical solution that gives robots a human face. By using a projector to beam the 3D image of ...

Electronics - Robotics

Nov 07, 2011 4.1 / 5 (7) 5 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Numerous 3-D displays that went on parade at last month's CEATEC 2011 in Japan touted glasses-free features, but one 3-D display presentation used a technique of special interest. Researchers ...

Technology - Hi Tech & Innovation

Nov 07, 2011 5 / 5 (7) 6 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- The talk of the Nokia Show in London this week was a demo that had admiring visitors wishing the little device was beyond Cool-Idea Prototype and instead a launch with dates in place for stores ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Oct 28, 2011 4.9 / 5 (14) 8 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a prototype wireless sensor capable of detecting trace amounts of a key ingredient found in many explosives.

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Oct 27, 2011 5 / 5 (3) 1 |

The DeLorean - yes, that DeLorean - is back.

Technology - Energy & Green Tech

Oct 25, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 4

Startup Lytro unveiled a camera that lets people adjust the focus on photos after they take them.

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Oct 20, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

Researchers in Spain have developed sophisticated machines to sort citrus fruit before they reach consumers. The prototypes can detect and separate rotten oranges, and can classify mandarin segments. Citrus ...

Technology - Engineering

Oct 19, 2011 3 / 5 (1) 2

For the first time, researchers have found a way to inject a precise dose of a gene therapy agent directly into a single living cell without a needle.

Nanotechnology - Bio & Medicine

Oct 16, 2011 5 / 5 (15) 1 |

Scientists at the Valencian Institute of Agrarian Research (IVIA, Spain) have created a machine that detects and separates rotten oranges, another that classifies mandarin segments according to their quality and another that ...

Biology - Other

Oct 11, 2011 not rated yet 1

The U.S.- and Singapore-based creators of the low-cost I-slate electronic tablet are preparing for full-scale production now that a yearlong series of tests has shown that the device is an effective learning ...

Electronics - Consumer & Gadgets

Oct 03, 2011 4.3 / 5 (3) 0