Vintage voltmeters and pressure gauges get a whole new lease on life in the garage of Aaron Voigt’s home in Mesa. Ditto for knobs and dials from antique appliances, old bicycle gears, automobile parts ...

Although the odds and ends around your house may seem like nothing more than a bunch of clutter, your family toolbox, junk drawer and recycling bins are treasure troves of crafting materials. Bottle ...

A human clearing junk out of an attic can often guess the contents of a box simply by picking it up and giving it a shake, without the need to see what's inside. Researchers from MIT, Amazon Robotics, ...

Training robots how to grasp various objects without dropping them usually requires a lot of practice. But a new robot, designed by researchers at UC Berkeley and Siemens and described in an upcoming ...