When car designers start to work on a new project, they usually begin with sketches coming from their experience or their imagination. But when Mercedes-Benz engineers begin to think about a model for ...

Bonnie Cha was a former chief correspondent for CNET Crave, covering every kind of tech toy imaginable (with a special obsession for robots and Star Wars-related stuff). When she's not scoping out ...

Now we’ll never outgrow Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots. Hammacher Schlemmer’s 6-foot-tall Bionic Bopper Cars challenge all washed-up joystick pugilists to climb in, sit down, and “duke it out” with a rival ...

The streamlined sedan is about the same size and weight of a Mercedes-Benz C-Class and has a drag coefficient of just .17, which is lower than any car on sale today including the leading Mercedes-Benz ...

Mercedes-Benz made history again last weekend. Its stunning Bionic Car completed the first official lap of one of the tracks at its Mercedes-Benz World site at Brooklands – 98 years, 4 months and 28 ...

Building the Bionic Eye...With Car Tech? Dr. Michael Beyeler and his team at UC Santa Barbara are prepping a smart prosthesis that provides cues to the visually impaired, much like a computer vision ...

[Photo: Hammacher Schlemmer] You might think that the days of remote-controlled boxing robots, like the ones in Real Steel, can only be part of a far-flung future. But it just so happens that future ...