Students prepare to launch a time capsule into orbit to mark U-M’s bicentennial. The plan is to retrieve it in 100 years.

HBO’s “Westworld” about a theme park populated by lifelike robots may be pure fiction, the science part is making great strides.

Learn how the Internet of Things infiltrated one home, and what it could signal about the future of privacy and security.

U-M and Ford collaborate on the auto industry’s first tests of autonomous vehicles in wintry conditions.

Sleek 2015 model, “Aurum,” is named for “gold” in Latin. In October, the team will race 1,800 miles across the Outback.

U-M students, professors, and staff may one day be zipping around campus aboard autonomous, 3D-printed electric vehicles.