FORT HUNT, VA — When students were home in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the focus was on the new virtual learning format. There wasn't as much of a need to learn the life skill of tying ...

SACRAMENTO - Many of us remember the long-ago day we learned to tie our own shoes. "I learned how to tie my shoes when I was 3 years old," said Kimberly Gomez Santos, a senior at Sacramento State. "My ...

With a budget of just $600—a mere pittance compared to what robots like ATLAS cost to develop—students from the University of California’s Davis’ College of Engineering created a machine that’s ...

In the days leading up to winter break, first-grade teacher Christine Jarboe and the rest of the first-grade team at Stratford Landing Elementary School noticed that they were asked to tie more shoes ...

In what might be one of the most underappreciated technological breakthroughs of our time, Alphabet's Google DeepMind has accomplished something deceptively difficult -- teaching a robot to tie ...

Could tying shoes be that critical? A friend was at Westfarms mall when he noticed a man stopped in the middle of a hallway, staring down at his shoes. When my friend got closer, he could see the man ...

Many things that humans do are very difficult for machines. Case in point: tying shoelaces. Think of the intricate dance of fingers crossing over fingers that it takes to pass off a lace from one hand ...