Solar Impulse, piloted by André Borschberg, takes flight during the second leg of the 2013 Across America mission, at dawn, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, f...
AP
innovation

Solar Impulse plane sets distance record for a solar-powered flight

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Jeff Fitlow
innovation

Shoes could help charge artificial heart pumps 

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke delivers the commencement address at the graduation ceremonies for Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great ...
The Berkshire Eagle via AP
innovation

Fed's chairman tells graduates that the best tech is yet to come

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Intel
innovation

Teen's invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds

MIT
MIT
mit

MIT's Cheetah-bot gallops into your post-apocalyptic nightmares

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Intel
innovation

Student's self-driving car tech wins Intel science fair

MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicles sit in a clamshell at night at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, July 31, 2011.
U.S. Air Force
innovation

Drone pilot burnout triggers call for recruiting overhaul

D-wave computer
D-Wave
quantum-computing

Google teams up with NASA on quantum computing lab

130514-N-ZZ999-004 ATLANTIC OCEAN (May 14, 2013) An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator launches from the aircraft carrier USS George...
U.S. Navy
innovation

Navy's X-47B drone completes first carrier takeoff 

Ramajara Ramasary and Yogeswaran Umasankar
University of Georgia
energy

Photosynthesis interrupted: Plant parts used to generate electricity

ARMAR IIIa, designed by the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT), unloads a dishwasher
Karlsruhe Institute for Technology
robots

Dawn of the bot? New era nears, experts say

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Carnegie Mellon University
robot

Robot learns to recognize objects on its own

The first fly-in arrested landing by the X-47B unmanned demonstrator represents the first arrested landing by an unmanned aircraft. During an arrested landing, an aircraft extends its landing hook to catch a heavy cable extended across the landing area. The tension in the wire brings the aircraft to a rapid and controlled stop.
Northrop Grumman Corp.
drones

Navy's X-47B drone makes first carrier-style landing

Nature
John Rogers / Nature
biomimetic

Bug-eyed camera gets wide angle view - through 180 lenses

OpenWorm project
OpenWorm project
simulation

Open-source virtual worm worms its way to life

Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon
Kevin Ma, Pakpong Chirarattananon
robot

Robo-bugs are here! World's smallest bot takes flight

Robot hand
iRobot
robot

Three-fingered iRobot hand points to strong, nimble future machines

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Lemelson-MIT
Lemelson-MIT

Student program wins $100K prize for health innovations for developing world

A Boy and His Atom
IBM
atom

World's smallest stop-motion film made with individual atoms

Oerlikon Skyshield Air Defence System
Rheinmetall Air Defence AG
robots

Activists, UN put 'killer robots' in the crosshairs