Ever tear open a potentiometer? If you haven’t, you can still probably guess what’s inside. A streak of resistive material with some kind of contact that moves across it as you rotate the shaft, right ...

Ousted DIU leader leaves behind a blueprint for faster tech. Defense Innovation Unit Director Doug Beck, a champion of acquisition reform who was instrumental in the Pentagon’s push to rapidly build ...

Have you ever wished your hand had an extra feature? Like, maybe, a second thumb? A scope probe pinky maybe? Well, if you are building a robot effector, you get to pick what extra features it has.

Ibrahim Naber is a foreign correspondent who has spent more than a year reporting from Ukraine. In 2025, he received the George Weidenfeld Prize for his coverage of global conflict and crisis zones.

China has unveiled a range of new weapons, drones and other military hardware in a massive parade that many see as a clear message to the United States and its allies. The event saw Xi Jinping host ...

A hobbyist has created a vehicle that morphs between tank and quadcopter modes at the press of a button. Michael Rechtin’s ...

Dubai: The hypermarket operator Lulu could launch grocery and other deliveries in Dubai, as leading retailers and quick service delivery companies give serious thought to how to operate such new ...

There has never been an R2-D2 toy quite like this. Sphero, the company that helped bring the scene-stealing BB-8 to life in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and then delivered a tiny, but lively BB-8 ...