A cafe with an all-robot staff controlled by paralyzed people has opened in Tokyo. The cafe, called Dawn ver.β, held its ribbon cutting ceremony on Nov. 26. Ten people with conditions like ALS and other spinal cord injuries are currently employed at Dawn, according to Sankei. From home, they operate the OriHime-D, a 120-centimeter (4-foot)... Continue Reading →

An advantage of indoor plumbing is that you never have to think about what you flushed away. In urban areas, the contaminated water flows into sewer pipes to treatment plants. Sewage treatment plants produce thousands of tons of waste product every day, which ends up in landfills, dumped in the ocean and, in some cases,... Continue Reading →

Researchers in the field of quantum communication have recently made great strides, taking us closer to a perfectly secure method of communication. For years, researchers struggled to find ways to amplify quantum signals, store large amounts of quantum data, and allow for more than two nodes in a quantum network. However, in the last two months,... Continue Reading →