In November 2021 a mysterious object was spotted on the horizon by China’s Yutu 2 rover as it worked its way across Von Kármán crater on the far side of the moon, drawing much speculation. Many ...

A new prototype of a knitting machine creates solid, knitted shapes, adding stitches in any direction—forward, backward and ...

Toyota reveals the early design journey of the new Land Cruiser FJ, which started life as a playful die-inspired concept ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. The Yutu ...

A team from Cornell and Carnegie Mellon has created a knitting machine that constructs solid 3D shapes by adding stitches in ...

A mysterious cigar-shaped object spotted tumbling through our solar system last year may have been an alien spacecraft sent to investigate Earth, astronomers from Harvard University have suggested.

Researchers introduced a novel method for fabricating functional flat-to-shape objects using a computer-controlled sewing machine. The team's method uses the sewing machine to stitch pockets between ...

Combining a quantum-inspired algorithm and quantum information processing technologies could enable researchers to measure ...

If a robot is going to be grasping delicate objects, then that bot had better know what those objects are, so it can treat them accordingly. A new robotic hand allows it to do so, by sensing the shape ...