A team of scientists from Tel-Aviv University have successfully given a robot the ability to hear sounds through the use of a dead locust’s ear. What? Seriously. A university press release ...

Scientists report connecting the ear of a dead locust to a robot that receives the ear's electrical signals and responds accordingly. Researchers at Tel Aviv University report that they have ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Beetles ...

Sound location technology has often been patterned around the human ear, but why do that when bats are clearly better at it? Virginia Tech researchers have certainly asked that question. They've ...

Ultimate Ears is pushing out a tag team of in-ear earphones that clearly demonstrates the heights (and depths) the Logitech-owned company is willing to scale. Starting at the extreme high end are the ...

What is Roz (Lupita Nyong’o) made of? The plot of “The Wild Robot” answers this in a dramatic, metaphorical way, once Roz is stranded on an island with no humans to care for but nonetheless stumbles ...

At Apple's high-end AirPods facility in Boulder, CO, you'll find bucket-list loudspeaker systems, 3D ear scanners and dancing ...

A robot is now capable of performing the trickiest part of cochlear implant surgery on a live human. It sounds violent and dangerous, but you’d definitely want a precise robot drilling a ...