Scientists have developed a color-changing tactile sensor that lets robots visualize touch in real time, paving the way for more precise manufacturing, prosthetics, and robotic surgery.

Three Saudi-flagged supertankers with six million barrels of crude onboard sailed through the Strait of Hormuz hours after US President Donald Trump signed a deal with Iran over an end to the conflict ...

Every Rongali Bihu, a video finds its way back onto the internet. A Nasa astronaut, draped in a white-and-red gamusa, the traditional Assamese towel that is as much a symbol of identity as it is a ...

For geeks like me, it's easy to remember when drones seemed like novelty toys for gadget-heads – cameras weren't even included as standard. Now a camera drone is a creative tool few photographers or ...

Visit www.smarsfan.com for more information about this project. The site includes build instructions, videos, an interview with the designer and much more. There is now a SMARS Python library ...

Sparsh is a family of general touch representations trained via self-supervision algorithms such as MAE, DINO and JEPA. Sparsh is able to generate useful representations for DIGIT, Gelsight'17 and ...

Twenty years ago, the Harvard anthropologist Michael Herzfeld coined the term crypto-colonialism to describe territories that are not colonies in the standard definition of the word, but suffer more ...

Using only a computer and a webcam, interactive animations allow learners to animate their world using Scratch (https://scratch.mit.edu) and their own movements. We use a tool called video sensing ...

In the last month alone, videos from Cocomelon, Little Baby Bum, and Blippi have been viewed more than 2.37 billion times. These three YouTube channels—which are among the biggest on the platform—have ...