The National Science Foundation has begun dismantling a major ocean monitoring network more than a decade earlier than planned. Some scientists say it will be a “tragic” loss of crucial information ...

While most warehouse robots still ferry goods to human pickers, Locus Robotics has aimed to flip the script with the debut of its Locus Array “robots-to-goods” system, which rolls an AI-powered arm ...

KINGSTON, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has launched a new system for ferry boarding at the Kingston terminal that aims to improve traffic flow and keep people from ...

Robo-umps have arrived. Kinda. Beginning this season, Major League Baseball will use the ABS (short for automated balls and strikes) challenge system, so it's not full robo-umps, but there is now a ...

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted an urgent need for efficient, durable, and widely accessible vaccines. This prompted several important innovations in vaccine technology, and researchers continue to ...

Neutral-atom arrays are a rapidly emerging platform to create quantum computers. In a foundational study led by graduate students Aaron Holman and Yuan Xu from the Will and Yu labs, respectively, the ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. It's Friday. The MBTA is taking the Green Line's ...

A delay on the MBTA because of a "signal problem" is a regular occurrence. But for many MBTA riders, what that means is a mystery. Simply put, the signal system is "the intelligence that helps trains ...

Motion capture technology is a key enabler for the digitalization of the human body in VR/AR/MR, film production, and sports rehabilitation, and has attracted broad interdisciplinary attention.

Quantum computers will need large numbers of qubits to tackle challenging problems in physics, chemistry, and beyond. Unlike classical bits, qubits can exist in two states at once—a phenomenon called ...