In a windy patch of desert outside Barstow, Calif., a 700-pound planetary rover named Helelani is churning its thick tires through a flour-like dust. Seven teams from around the world are taking turns ...

AMES, Iowa – The team of middle schoolers didn’t know how to make an app. Neither did their teacher. But that didn’t stop them. And so, when the “Rubble Busters” from Maxwell show up for the Iowa ...

Gerri Nichols was able to walk out of the hospital just one week after suffering a stroke. The 69-year-old Clinton woman attributes her recovery to timely diagnosis and treatment, including use of a ...

Environmental Services team at Dubuque hospital with R2D2, the cleaning robot. (Photo courtesy of Finley Hospital) Three robots are at work in a northeast Iowa hospital, making the final sweep to make ...

It's probably the most common complaint among Iowa employers: There are never enough workers. The numbers show it's not just casual griping. Over the past two decades, the size of Iowa's workforce has ...

A turkey tending robot at Jack Kilian’s founder and CEO of Poultry Patrol, Inc., home workshop in Coralville, Iowa, on Thursday, April 3, 2025. The robots are designed to stimulate bird movement in ...

AMES, Iowa – The small robots in Ran Dai’s basement lab at Iowa State University look like fancy electronic toys. But they’re really very smart. And they’re getting smarter. Dai, an Iowa State ...