From K-dramas and K-pop to food, fashion and film, South Korea’s cultural exports have reshaped global taste over the past decade. The so-called ‘Hallyu’, or ‘K-wave’, accelerated during the pandemic ...

Labor shortages in the service sector are more severe than in manufacturing. This, coupled with its largely unstructured environments, makes it a market urgently keen on adopting AI robots. However, ...

When researchers asked more than 1,000 Americans to assign colors to robots according to the robot’s job, they found that biases familiar from the human workplace resurfaced—and that the people making ...

Amazon made a lot of noise in October when it unveiled Blue Jay, a multi-armed warehouse robot built to speed up same-day deliveries. Just months later, the company quietly ended the program. The ...

Chemists in South Korea have created a stable color-changing sensor that displays an easily quantifiable response to the pH of its surroundings. Published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering, Dong-Hwan ...

The University of Chicago has severed its relationship with a program credited with aiding Black and Brown students pursuing doctoral degrees that the Trump administration alleges is racially ...

U.S. Army infantry cadre assigned to 1st Battalion, 166th Regiment – Regional Training Institute, Pennsylvania Army National Guard conduct Soldier Borne Sensor (SBS) training at Fort Indiantown Gap ...

A food-safe gelatin microneedle sensor pierces sealed packaging and changes color as food spoils, offering consumers a real-time alternative to static expiry dates. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Open a package ...

Kassidy Shedd (MSR '24) has spent years fascinated by medical technology and how it can help people. She has a particular interest in surgical robots, but she knows their high price tag puts them out ...

Researchers at China’s Tsinghua University’s Shenzhen International Graduate School have developed a next-generation tactile sensor called SuperTac. The project involved collaboration with multiple ...

Leveraging tools from seismology — the study of earthquakes and the inside of our planet — the Earth Rover Program aims to provide critical data on the health of soil. Humans, and terrestrial life in ...

Humans pay enormous attention to lips during conversation, and robots have struggled badly to keep up. A new robot developed at Columbia Engineering learned realistic lip movements by watching its own ...