Why mess around with flying microbots when you can get perfectly good bugs to do the work? That's what researchers are doing with these cyborg beetles, strapping on six electrodes that might someday turn the lowly insects into eavesdropping,...

The TechX Challenge, Singapore's first government-sponsored robotics competition, will run 'bots through some unique trials, such as stair climbing, being able to navigate building interiors, and, the hardest of all, being able to autonomously operate an elevator. The last...

Our Air Force has a couple different sources of fuel for its jets, one of them being a blend derived from coal. Problem is, both the process used to turn coal into fuel and burning said fuel in flight...