True to its name, Swift is designed to pivot quickly to capture late-breaking astronomical events such as gamma ray bursts ...

NASA is racing to save its Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission. The salvage effort gets ...

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory use a slew of autonomous robots to design and ...

A slew of start-ups and academic labs are leaning on AI agents and bots, rather than humans, to speed up their chemistry ...

Robots with increasingly precise dexterity are becoming essential in everyday life and industrial settings, from assembling tiny smartphone components to assisting doctors in surgery. However, ...

AI “world models” are the next frontier for computer scientists who see too many limitations in the AI language models behind ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In 2024, the 13th Brigade of Ukraine’s National Guard carried out the first ever robot-only assault, using a team of drones and ground robots. The non-humanoid robots were the size of a quad bike and ...

Researchers may be able to start running experiments without ever setting foot in a lab. New technology, including artificial intelligence, is increasingly allowing them to delegate all kinds of tasks ...

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across. So every month, we highlight a handful of the best stories that nearly ...

"Ancient Japanese Art Brings Spineless Robot To Life!" Sounds very much like a movie plot summary. In reality, it perfectly describes the work of Princeton University engineers who have created a ...

A humanoid robot aptly named Lightning made history on the streets of Beijing over the weekend, beating the human half-marathon world record by several minutes. Dozens of robots lined up for the ...