A peacock mantis shrimp. The shrimp's bulging eyes see in a way totally different from other animals, more comparable to a satellite than anything else, scientists say. Wikimedia Commons/Silke Baron ...

Editor’s note: On August 28, 1993, the Galileo spacecraft — on its way toward Jupiter to begin a successful 8-year mission — flew past asteroid 243 Ida. It was Galileo’s second asteroid flyby, ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a ...

Purdue doctoral student Nicolás Guarín-Zapata holds a "dactyl club," the mantis shrimp uses to pummel the shells of hapless prey. New findings about the structure's natural design could lead to super ...

It's still early days in creating the kind of human-like androids we see in the movies, but new research brings us ever closer to the idea. Boston Dynamics has become the de facto image of locomotion ...

Have you been wanting to build your own keyboard, ergonomic or otherwise, but are hesitant to spend all that time and filament on something that may not be a good fit for your hands? Glad as we are ...

OpenAI is developing a robot arm " Dactyl" that can handle objects with unprecedented level of dexterity. Dactyl uses the same general-purpose reinforcement learning algorithm and code that is used ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Nothing in this world — animal or robot — quite comes close to the flexibility and dexterity of the human hand ...

OpenAI — a non-profit started by Elon Musk — has found a way to programme a robot hand so that it can nimbly manipulate an object using human-like movements it has taught itself. Dactyl works by ...

They did it! Natalie Morales and Jenna Bush Hager took the plunge. The dynamic duo fell 200 feet off a Colorado cliff, reaching speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour as they rode the Terror-dactyl at ...