While iRobot took biological inspiration for Ariel’s design, the robot wasn’t prone to being stuck on its back like a crab ...

The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 resumed, nearly 12 years after the Boeing 777 vanished with 239 people onboard.

The immediate search for the plane was called off after just 22 days because of bad weather. It was never revived, and ...

While not 100% hands-free, it's miles ahead of where robot vacuums were only a few years ago.

You know how the saying goes — one person’s trash is another’s treasure. In this case, gas created by trash at the Prima Deshecha Landfill could be turned into renewable energy to help power the ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have developed an automated diving robot that can detect and ...

Recent heavy rainfall in Southern California has swelled the banks of local rivers which are now carrying significant amounts of debris downstream, threatening coastal environments in Los Angeles and ...

With millions of tons of plastic covering the seafloor, and more added every year, plastic pollution in the oceans is a major problem. With this amount of waste, we are ruining Earth's oceans and ...

The robot, known as AIDOL, staggered onstage during a technology showcase in Moscow. Organizers blamed the mishap on calibration and lighting issues. By Neil Vigdor and Sanjana Varghese It was an ...

From the seaside village of Woods Hole on Cape Cod, where ferries depart daily bound for Martha’s Vineyard, an autonomous ocean glider recently embarked on a far more ambitious course: a first-ever ...

When Jonas Wüst first met rescue divers in Switzerland, what struck him wasn’t their courage, it was how much danger still defined their work. “We realized how outdated it all was,” he recalls.