The idea of a smart home sounds promising enough -- who doesn't want a house full of automated gadgets, from light switches to appliances to heating systems, that know exactly when to turn on, turn ...

Consider a pick-and-place machine. Here a proximity sensor fires when a component comes in range. It triggers a robot arm to pick up the part and move it to a shipping container. Many times this ...

April 15, 2013 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Smart thermostats are all the buzz these days, but you're right—some of it is just a matter of smart programming.

Logic gates made of DNA could one day operate in your bloodstream, collectively making medical decisions and taking action. For now, they play a mean game of in vitro tic-tac-toe From a modern chemist ...

Now is the time for chief information officers (CIOs) and other business leaders to begin developing ethical programming protocols for smart machines, according to the Gartner research group. Smart ...

Amazon has announced that it is greenlighting a pilot for a new "Zombieland" series, based on the eponymous 2009 movie. That puts the show in the company of a high-profile lineup: In December the ...

Minimizing power requirements while maximizing performance tends to be on everyone’s checklist these days. But, like security technology, there is a lot of misunderstanding and even more new ...

If you run late-model tractors and trucks, chances are your diesels are electronically controlled. That means you have a great deal of flexibility over how those powerplants perform as they run up and ...

Urban populations are expanding rapidly around the globe, with an expected growth of 1.56 billion by 2040. As the number of people living and working in cities continues to grow, the ability to keep ...