Imagine being able to get a check-up from your doctor down the hall from your office. See how technology will make health care more accessible and convenient.
Small, self-navigating, unmanned boats can take to seas, along hurricane routes and gather information about weather and potentially devastating storms.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or "UAVs," will be key to search and rescue operations of the future. UAVs can scour extreme, inaccessible terrain and cover a greater amount of area in a shorter amount of time.
Want to pick up a new language or skill as aptly as a child? It will be possible in the future, but at the cost of losing memories -- like, remembering your spouse.
Take a look into the life of innovator and entrepreneur Steve Jobs in the dawn of the computer age, before he brought his vision of simplicity and usability to life in the creation of Apple Computer.
Four years after being paralyzed in a car accident, UC Berkeley graduate Austin Whitney was able to walk again thanks to a new robotic exoskeleton. Jorge Ribas finds out how it works.
The rubber stress ball on your desk could usher in the next generation of robotic grippers. Researchers have built a gripper using a rubber membrane filled with everyday materials that can pick up anything from an egg to a glass of water.
Cutting-edge robots, recently unveiled by NASA and General Motors, will work next to humans on Earth and in space. Jorge Ribas reports on the twin machines dubbed Robonaut 2.
For a month, Pierpaolo Petruzziello's amputated arm was connected to a robotic limb, allowing him to feel sensations and control the arm with his thoughts. Rossella Lorenzi talks to him about the bionic experiment.
The fastest trains ever built are turning hour-long, traffic-jammed commutes into futuristic joyrides. So when can we expect a maglev train here in the United States? Jorge Ribas finds out.
Extremophiles, micro-organisms that can live in volcanos, space and the deep oceans, are still a mystery, but one scientist has found a way to use them to study other elements. Discovery News gets the scoop.