From Google’s self-driving cars to IBM Watson’s talking, dancing Connie, some of the world’s biggest companies are in hot pursuit of robots. But there’s a huge population of do-it-yourselfers designing robots for the fun of it, toiling away on ...

A confession: Until today, I had never put on a VR headset. I’ve seen people use them, of course. I’ve watched YouTube videos suggesting a small piece of the experience. But nothing prepared for me for my maiden voyage at GTC. The “VR Village” was a ...

New businesses, products, technologies and experiences have all been on display at our GPU Technology Conference. Our VR talks, announcements and heart-pumping demos showed how much GPU technology will change the industry. We had 36 VR exhibitors, ...

Imagine strapping an enormous VR headset to a car. Now, place that car inside a facility the size of a football field that simulates a full range of motion. Toyota Research Institute CEO Gill Pratt provided a peek inside that incredible facility ...

Gearing up for game time takes on a new meaning when you manage security for Levi’s Stadium and its home team, the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. With a stadium that hosts 68,000 fans on football Sundays — 75,000 during the recent Super Bowl 50 — and up ...

Beauty may only be skin deep, but that hasn’t slowed a multi-billion dollar skincare industry. Now researchers using deep learning are bringing an unblinking eye to wrinkles, age spots and other biomarkers that can signal the state of health of a ...

Nearly 300 million people around the world struggle every day to manage such tasks as crossing the road or identifying a face because they’re blind or visually impaired. Horus Technology, winner of our first social innovation award at the Emerging ...

What do you get when you combine GPUs, nanotechnology and clever engineers? A drone not much bigger than your hand. The aptly dubbed Black Hornet, a product of Norway’s Prox Dynamics, is a 16-centimeter long, 18-gram beast, with a mile range and ...

You don’t need a robotic arm to reach out and snag our $100,000 Early Stage Challenge, held every year at our GPU Technology Conference, but it doesn’t hurt. Following a two-hour high-tech shoot out with a dozen fledging startups, Spain’s Sadako ...

You may talk about taking long walks at the beach and beginning a new chapter in your life. But everyone can see through you. And so can at least one machine out there. Rob High, IBM Fellow, VP and chief technology officer for Watson, showed how ...