A stapler that slides towards your hand before you reach for it. A lamp that tilts forward when you start to read.

Previous models explored the illusion, but this is the first time it has been actually recreated in a lab setting.

Recent research shows that young children typically manipulate and rotate entire objects in their minds to understand ...

Inspired by how brainless lifeforms such as starfish and slime moulds move around, physicists at the University of Amsterdam have constructed ‘odd’ objects that autonomously roll, crawl and wiggle ...

T he human brain, with its 100 billion neurons, powers everything we do, from thinking and creating to walking and talking.

Locomotion, the ability to move from one place to another, is an essential survival strategy for virtually every organism. Adapting to the unpredictable terrain they run into, cells, fungi and ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm that receives signals from his brain via a computer. He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by ...