As far as plant names go, the sleepy plant—or shy plant, or shameplant, known more formally as Mimosa pudica—is hard to beat. Touch one of its leaves and it curls up like it’s embarrassed, the ...

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Using paper coated with silicon resin and iron particles, researchers created an untethered soft robot that can move without any electronics. This magnetically controlled device can detect heavy metal ...

Athletes jumping off a diving board. A duck circling a pond. Planets rotating in space. What do all these things have in common? They—or at least, their robotic representations—are products of a ...

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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a robot that cheats at rock-paper-scissors by detecting the gesture you’re about to throw. It's the automated equivalent of your jerk friend ...

One of the surprise stars at the 2020 CES consumer electronics show this week was a cute, tiny robot with an electronic teddy bear face that brings toilet paper rolls to bathroom users on command. The ...

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A new robot that can win any game of Rock, Paper, Scissors you throw at it has popped up at the University of Tokyo. It’s a third-generation design by researchers at Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory, and ...

The toilet paper company is introducing a new field of bathroom-betterment. This is a Digital Trends story. Charmin is known for its hilarious commercials, but now the toilet paper company is ...

YouTuber and former NASA engineer Mark Rober is betting on his robot being able to beat anyone, every time, in Rock-Paper-Scissors. He is so confident about his robot, affectionately named Rocky, ...

In case you were in any doubt about the superiority of robots to humans, Japanese researchers have unleashed a machine that's unbeatable at that timeless human test of wills, rock, paper, scissors.