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Smart socks are helping physiotherapists better assess and treat patients during video consultations by providing information on weight distribution and range of movement during exercises like steps, squats or jumps.

A prize-winning research project sought to answer this question by asking small groups of friends, average age 25, to live with a “social networking robot” dubbed Fribo for four weeks. Initial comments from the experimental group sound positive.

Stanford students learn different levels of autonomy that could one day be used in real world applications.

LUUNA is the first intelligent sleep mask that is tailored to your sleep schedule.

Ashley, a Resident Geek from Digi-Key, gets her revenge with reverse engineering.

NASA’s Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration (OCSD) project could lead to dramatic improvements in the speed, range and quality of data transfer from space to the ground.

The company demonstrated the pod during a recent visit from the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

A vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) solution engineered to eliminate a significant number of racecar accidents and casualties in professional and amateur racing was demonstrated.

A new camera for detecting fluorescent markers tagged on cancer tumors mimics the visual system of the morpho butterfly.

Smart factories, like ABB’s new Bangalore facility that will be used to produce its entire range of electrical protection and connection solutions, are a collection of connected devices that are responsive, adaptive and brimming with artificial intelligence.

Rice University students designed an imager to help diabetic patients monitor their extremities for signs of injury.

Airlines, satellite providers and cellular technology companies are developing faster satellite links and air-to-ground networks to provide passengers with the broadband performance they desire.

The platform integrates robotics, software, data science and endoscope innovation to improve patient outcomes and contain healthcare costs.

The BionicWheelBot can walk around like normal spiders, but it can also fold up into a wheel shape to mimic the unique somersault-roll of the flic-flac spider.

According to British data, around 32,000 smartphone screens are smashed every day in the U.K. alone -- not to mention iPads, tablets and other mobile and fixed devices. To repair the device one must engage a repair shop or the manufacturer, a process that is lengthy, overwhelming and inconvenient. A better way is offered by the British startup Repairly, created in London, to address this problem.