If you’ve ever played the claw game, you probably never thought about the scientific applications of that arcade game designed to take your money. But engineers at Harvard University must have. A team ...

Cambridge, MA – Animators could create more realistic bouncy, stretchy, and squishy characters for movies and video games thanks to a new simulation method developed by researchers at MIT. Their ...

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Dallas-based Lily Hanson is master of what art critic Charissa Terranova has called “the soft uncanny.” Or maybe it’s the “snuggly strange.” A sculptor and textile artist, Hanson creates large ...

The Facebook forum is filled with creative guesses, but Matthew Bracken, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine, has a pretty good idea.

Inspired by ancient Japanese paper art, scientists create a gripper that could give robot hands a softer, more dexterous touch. Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and ...

Imagine a coffee cup sitting on a table. Now, imagine a book partially obscuring the cup. As humans, we still know what the coffee cup is even though we can't see all of it. But a robot might be ...

Shapeways has unveiled an elastic new material for 3D printing that can be used for projects that are a little more on the flexible side. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...