Scientists want to know if a biohybrid robot can form a long-lasting biological “mind” to direct movement. It’s a bizarre sight: With a short burst of light, a sponge-shaped robot scoots across a tiled surface. Flipped on its back, it repeatedly twitches as if doing sit-ups. By tinkering with the

Thanks to AI and an electrode-studded cap, participants controlled a robotic arm with just their thoughts. A host of tech startups are racing to build brain implants, but there may be limits to how widely such invasive technology can be adopted. New research shows that pairing AI with less invasive

Robotics This Robot Only Needs a Single AI Model to Master Humanlike MovementsWill Knight | Wired “The new Atlas work is a big sign that robots are starting to experience the kind of equivalent advances in robotics that eventually led to the general language models that gave us ChatGPT in the field

Scientists mapped the timing of plant growth cycles around the globe with 20 years of satellite imagery. The annual clock of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, autumn—is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites,

The treatment takes a step towards a universal cancer vaccine by making multiple cancers more susceptible to current immunotherapies. Cancer puts up a formidable defense. As cancer cells grow, they pump out molecules that weaken and confuse attacking immune cells, lowering their ability to fight