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When it comes to coffee, I’m pretty picky – not just about flavor, but about what my machine is made from. After speaking to toxicologists and medical experts about plastic coatings and mystery metals ...

Researchers at Northwestern University in Illinois have demonstrated the world's smallest remote-controlled walking robot. These tiny machines can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and jump without ...

While the big players of injection molding machinery like to tout the size and power of their equipment, Rambaldi + Co. IT is content with approaching the market in a different way. The Molteno, Italy ...

A robot made of Lego can quickly perform an important step for creating machines made of DNA. “This started as a final project in an undergraduate lab course,” says Rizal Hariadi at Arizona State ...

Remember the first cell phone you saw? It looked like an electronic brick, died after a couple of hours and only did one thing: transmit conversations. Better chips from Texas Instruments Inc.

Using laser light instead of traditional mechanics, researchers have built micro-gears that can spin, shift direction, and even power tiny machines. These breakthroughs could soon lead to ...