Do not be alarmed, but this disembodied robotic tentacle can gracefully grasp smooth objects or pass them to your puny human hand. The OctopusGripper has been created by German robotics firm Festo, ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. We’ve all seen what modern 3D printing technology is capable of, but it still has some ...

3-D printers have been around since the 1980s, but we are still far from maximizing their potential. One active area of research is 'self-actuating' objects: flat materials that transform themselves ...

3D printing is in a bit of a doldrums. The novelty has worn off and the limited utility of the technology has been made clear. The bloom is especially off the rose of home 3D printing thanks to slow ...

If you’ve played a PC game in the past five years, you’ve probably stumbled across an anti-aliasing toggle while mucking about with your graphics settings. Switching it on can make everything on your ...

Five years ago the Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier during his free fall from an altitude of almost 39 kilometers. Now researchers have analyzed the fluid dynamics of his ...