When Christina Ernst dreamed up the concept for a self-twirling dress, she made it and then programmed its robotic arms to lift the hem of a romantic pink smock gown and to spin it left and right. She ...

The punch-card Jacquard loom, invented in the early 19th-century for weaving, is considered a precursor ... her projects in simpler materials such as cardboard “before dropping into high-tech ...

ATGLEN, Pa.—When a recruiter approached Andy Silvernail about joining International Paper IP-0.83%decrease; red down pointing triangle to turn around the 127-year-old company, he initially said ...