HANOVER, N.H.--The Cool Robot is square, squat and slow, but its utilitarian beauty is clear to polar researchers who want a sturdy nonhuman helper to carry instruments over vast stretches of the ...

The Cool Robot is square, squat and slow, but its utilitarian beauty is clear to polar researchers who want a sturdy non-human helper to carry instruments over vast stretches of the Arctic and ...

A pillow to the face is a good way to silence the snorer you sleep with. Unless you’re the snorer. In that case you’d probably prefer to share a bed with Jukusui-kun, a robot polar bear that doubles ...

The Yeti robot at NSF’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 2011. Credit: James Lever, U.S. Army’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory A century after Western explorers first crossed the ...

Trying to sleep next to someone who regularly sounds like a Harrier jump jet taking off can turn the most mild-mannered spouse into a homicidal maniac. But never fear: the Japanese are on the case, ...

The next generation of Antarctic explorers could be robots capable of driving hundreds of kilometres and doing scientific experiments alone. That was the vision unveiled by US scientists and engineers ...