October 2012

Robotics | Cover Story

How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot Worker

Rodney Brooks's new start-up wants to spark a factory revolution with a low-cost, user-friendly robot

By Erico Guizzo, Evan Ackerman

How Amazon and Netflix predict your preferences and prod you to purchase24 Sep 2012

Magnets steer medical microbots through blood vessels25 Sep 2012

How the Bolshoi simulation evolves the universe all over again1 Oct 2012

Weak links in the grid prove difficult to fix28 Sep 2012

Texas team says digital signal processors could compete in high-performance computing25 Sep 2012

U.S. energy agency lights up the first superfast science data network27 Sep 2012

Digital sharecroppers, unite!21 Sep 2012

The candidates aren’t saying much about their plans for the nation’s R&D enterprise, but they need to—and fast1 Aug 2012

Laser mouse: A quick-and-dirty tool for engraving large images27 Sep 2012

LevelUp’s mobile payment strategy emphasizes simplicity and security14 Aug 2012

When yesterday’s gadgets are better than today’s10 Sep 2012