Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have enabled a paralysed man to regularly control a robotic arm ...

Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

Soon, a flexible octopus-like robot could be completely free of wires or internal electronics. Engineers at Rice University have unveiled a new soft robotic arm controlled by laser beams.

He was able to grasp, move, and release objects simply by imagining himself performing the actions. The device, known as a brain-computer interface (BCI), functioned successfully for a record seven ...