Skydiving is an extremely exciting hobby and of course the focus of the whole sport is to safely “nail” the landing. With modern ram-air (square) parachutes, one can control the landing quite ...

Could teaching kids how robots are used in the real world create a new generation of designers to build revolutionary machines? That’s the idea behind a new study of children’s perceptions of robots.

Living organisms are leaky test tubes of reactions. Almost isolated from the rest of the Universe, they receive limited information for adaptive behaviour, prediction and planning. The 'proximal' ...