In the pursuit of space exploration, humans have broken records that were previously thought impossible. At the same time, terrible accidents have marred the history of space flight, making later ...

A finger moving across dry sand meets resistance that the eye cannot see. The sand shifts in ways too small for conscious measurement, yet something in the hand registers the change. Beneath the ...

Using a novel relevance framework developed at MIT, the robot identifies and prioritizes objects in the scene to autonomously assist humans in a seamless, intelligent, and safe manner. CAMBRIDGE, MA - ...

Some of the most valuable things ever created aren’t locked behind museum glass. They’re gone. Lost, destroyed, or buried somewhere, no one has managed to find. Their worth wasn’t just about gold or ...

A chair can still look like a chair even when its surface is reduced to a sparse cloud of points. Humans are remarkably good ...

A robotic hand developed at EPFL can pick up 24 different objects with human-like movements that emerge spontaneously, thanks to compliant materials and structures rather than programming. When you ...

Archaeologists excavating 400,000-year-old rock in western Ukraine have uncovered fragments of what could be the oldest human-made ivory objects ever found. These artefacts would have been too soft to ...

Humans perceive aesthetic beauty in inanimate objects partly because the brain is highly attuned to patterns. The visual system is especially sensitive to symmetry and proportion. When a form is ...