A new device that can recognize hand gestures based on electrical signals in the forearm could one day control prosthetics.

Nanoscale devices integrated into the leaves of living plants can detect the toxic heavy metal in real time.

A new tiny drone called Smellicopter uses a live moth antenna to navigate toward smells. It can also avoid obstcles in the air.

Dust and dirt aren't the only things your robot vacuum can pick up. New research shows how hackers could use them to listen to private conversations, too.

Sensors are everywhere, from your phone to your medicine cabinet. Here's how they turn events in the physical world into words and numbers.

Lincoln Laboratory researchers join international task force to evaluate wearable and emerging technology.

Applications and challenges of sensing technology have been accelerated by Covid-19.

Five years in the making, MIT’s autonomous floating vessels get a size upgrade and learn a new way to communicate aboard the waters.

MorphSensor lets users digitally model an object’s form and electronic function in one integrated space.

An optical sensor that can detect individual molecules promises early detection of diseases and environmental contamination.