Wouldn’t it be great to take the plastic bags that fill refuse stations in India and convert them into bricks,…

Using a robot to trigger the frightening feeling of a ‘phantom presence’, neuroscientists show that ghosts only exist in our…

Using a completely new approach, a German biotech startup is hoping to produce the first successful vaccine to treat Helicobacter…

A method borrowed from video gaming can make remote-controlled emergency response robots easier to use – enabling the operator to…

A newly developed digital sensor will make it quick and easy to detect bombs, explosives and drugs at airports and…

For Gerhard Kramer, choosing which engineering field to specialise in came naturally: the most challenging one – from a mathematics…

An attractive, affordable, safe and comfortable electric car with a reasonable driving range: that was the goal of the German…

Submarine robots 'talking' to each other in a language related to that of whales and dolphins are being cast to…

Biorobotics, which aims to design more efficient robots based on locomotion solutions developed by the animal world, is providing new…

Portable computers will soon be able to do away with the power supply transformer – today the heaviest accessory in…