Baxter: The Blue-Collar Robot
Rethink Robotics’ new creation is easy to interact with, but the innovations behind the robot show just how hard it is to get along with people.
View ArticleBig Data from Cheap Phones
Collecting and analyzing information from simple cell phones can provide surprising insights into how people move about and behave—and even help us understand the spread of diseases.At a computer in...
View ArticleDeep Learning
With massive amounts of computational power, machines can now recognize objects and translate speech in real time. Artificial intelligence is finally getting smart.When Ray Kurzweil met with Google CEO...
View ArticleTemporary Social Media
Messages that quickly self-destruct could enhance the privacy of online communication and make people feel freer to be spontaneous.One essential aspect of privacy is the ability to control how much we...
View ArticleAdditive Manufacturing
GE, the world’s largest manufacturer, is on the verge of using 3-D printing to make jet parts.General Electric is making a radical departure from the way it has traditionally manufactured things. Its...
View ArticleMemory Implants
A maverick neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories.Theodore Berger, a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist at the University of Southern...
View ArticleSmart Watches
The designers of the Pebble watch realized that a mobile phone is more useful if you don’t have to take it out of your pocket.Eric Migicovsky didn’t really want a “wearable computer.” When he first...
View ArticleUltra-Efficient Solar Power
Doubling the efficiency of solar devices would completely change the economics of renewable energy. Here is a design that just might make it possible.Harry Atwater thinks his lab can make an affordable...
View ArticleSupergrids
A high-power circuit breaker could finally make DC power grids practical.High-voltage DC power lines can efficiently transport electricity over thousands of kilometers and for long distances...
View ArticleIntroduction to the 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2013
MIT Technology Review identifies the 10 most important technology milestones of the past year.Our definition of a breakthrough is simple: an advance that gives people powerful new ways to use...
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