I went to a basketball game on Thursday night. It was an NBA play-off game -the Washington Wizards against the Cleveland Cavaliers. It was a wonderful event in many ways. Watching these great athletes ...

I came across this "robot folding a towel" video, also known as "Autonomously folding a pile of five previously-unseen towels." It's a project by UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Jeremy Maitin-Shepard. It's ...