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Robb Godshaw, an industrial design student at Rochester Institute of Technology, demonstrates a haptic weather forecaster called the Cryoscope.

Robots are evolving faster than humans. Check out a wheeled robot that can also sprout legs and walk on some serious terrain.

Researchers in Singapore create a robot that can remove early-stage stomach cancer, and it's all thanks to a chili crab dinner.

Appleton, a Micron Technology veteran of three decades and its chief executive officer since 1994, died today in a plane crash in Boise, Idaho.

Space robots, materials to protect humans from radiation, along with solar and nuclear-powered spacecraft makes NASA's technology development wish list for the next five years.

Navigating through traffic congestion is one of life's headaches. SmartPlanet visits Silicon Valley startup Waze to hear how its app enables drivers to share real-time traffic information.

Takashimaya has rolled out a Geminoid robot to greet shoppers for Valentine's Day. Will she find love?

The 2-inch-wide sensor, which tracks heart rate, respiration, and movement, is non-invasive and wearable.

Evidence that plant life was a primary force that shaped Earth's surface is laid out in a new issue of Nature Geoscience. Because of that, the chance we'll find a similar world with a surface like our planet's is very small.

To make super cheap solar cells, MIT researchers look to commandeer the process of photosynthesis in plants.

Sales of the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt electric cars start slow in 2012, with Volt sales apparently impacted by closed safety investigation.

Equipped with a video camera, one of NASA's twin lunar spacecrafts reveals a rare glimpse of the far side of the moon.

Elon Musk's SuperDraco engine makes those "Star Trek"-style thrusters a reality.

At NASA's Disaster Resiliency Panel, the director of Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley explains how to build technologies that will make a difference for people and their communities when disaster strikes.

A microelectromechanical system out of Purdue vibrates enough to generate power when subjected to sounds in the 200- to 500-hertz range. After testing the device using hip-hop, jazz, blues, and rock, researchers find "rap is the best."

Intelligent biomechanical mask under development at the University of Texas at Arlington could regrow faces for soldiers burned on the battlefield.

Columbia University researchers create an interactive map of the energy use from New York City's buildings with the hopes of identifying potential efficiency improvements and shared on-site energy systems, such as solar.

Drone enthusiasts cry foul, saying the Eye3 is too good to be true and too similar to existing products.

A new electronic scooter that debuted at the Portland Auto Show makes for a compact, eco-friendly ride for city dwellers, but you might get some funny looks.

Startup crams Xeon server chips into an energy-efficient server, broadening the appeal of microservers for large data center operators.