High-tech PJs designed to analyze wearers' troubled sleep

People with chronic insomnia will sometimes undergo sleep studies, in which they slumber in a clinic while wired up to various sensors – perhaps not the best way to replicate their typical sleeping...

After just 20 hours of training, Wayve's fast-learning AI car is already driving itself on unfami...

Forget large arrays of sensors and radars. Forget hard-coded road rules. British startup Wayve taught a car to teach itself to drive, and using only some cameras, a sat-nav and 20 hours' worth of...

sony finds affinity in autonomy robotics at milan design week 2019

MIT and NASA develop auto-morphing "metamaterial" wing made of hundreds of tiny parts

A team of researchers led by NASA and MIT have come up with a radical new wing design that is not only much lighter than conventional wings, but also has the potential to automatically reconfigure...

Future violinists may be trained by AI

If you're training to be a concert violinist, you don't want your technique to be merely "good enough." A new computer system may soon be able to help, as it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to...

Bluetooth metal detector uses your smartphone to do its thinking

Although smartphones can perform many tasks on their own, they're also able to make devices such as drones, robots and cameras cheaper and/or more capable by acting as their "brains." One of the...

ablechair lets wheelchair users stand, walk, recline and lie down

The First Smartwatch to Read Your Blood Pressure Is an Ugly Marvel

There’s a reason they call high blood pressure the silent killer. The Center for Disease Control says 75 million Americans suffer from hypertension, a

Stanford's latest autonomous driving tech takes tricky corners like a race car driver

The amount of miles logged by driverless cars are well into the millions, but these closely watched research projects largely ply their trade on sound roads under regular driving conditions. So what...