Harnessing quantum states that avoid thermalization enables energy harvesters to surpass traditional thermodynamic limits ...

In the Fall I'll be starting teaching again, after a semester away on sabbatical and then enjoying teaching relief during my first semester at Penn. I'll be teaching a course that I truly love, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about perception, sensors and LIDAR for autonomous vehicles, drones and robots Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the ...

In physics, power is the rate at which energy is transferred, used, or transformed. The unit of power is the joule per second (J/s), known as the watt (in honor of James Watt, the eighteenth-century ...

Fidget poppers are an example of "bistability," as the popped circles rest in one of two stable states. Purdue University researchers have taken this idea to its extreme, building robots that can be ...