Buildings are essential to human society, but let’s be honest: they’re incredibly “dumb.” Your walls don’t know when you’re ...
Living buildings, quantum computers, safety by design, home robots and AI-assisted pandemic preparedness. Europe’s researchers are reshaping how we live, work and design our cities in 2026. By Anthony ...
A brand-new engineering approach at Carnegie Mellon University is creating “designer” biological robots using human lung cells. Known as AggreBots, these microscale living machines may one day ...
Nature is, of course, the master engineer—been there, seen it, solved it. While we struggle to design buildings that don't ...
Living with robots could lead to plenty of societal improvements, but they also pose risks to how we socialize and co-exist with other human beings.