After a Great Depression and a world war, Americans were ready to have some fun. Postwar innovators delivered, with new or improved products that made it easier, and cheaper, for people to play. The ...

There’s something Zen-like about watching a Zamboni, the hulking vehicle whose solemn dance is the feature of every intermission at an ice rink. There’s the drone of the machine, the driver’s look of ...

SALT LAKE CITY — When you think of hockey, one name synonymous with excellence may come to mind: Zamboni. But what many Utahns might not know is that this iconic ice-resurfacing machine has roots ...

Graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University developed an autonomous Zamboni using artificial intelligence. According to our partners at TribLIVE.com, the Zamboni is currently being tested at the ...

The boxy four-wheeled contraption is not particularly graceful. It does one job, night after night, intermission after intermission. Yet the Zamboni machine, that overgrown ice tractor that resurfaces ...

Richard Zamboni walks around the first ice-surfacing machine his father built seven decades ago. The 88-year-old is taking his time to remember. “We’re using the same framework today, basically, that ...

Steve Eirish has been an engineer for The Classic Center and the official Zamboni machine driver for the Georgia Ice Dawgs hockey team for 12 years now. In between the exciting plays, Eirish has been ...

Though skaters with the names of Lipinski, Lemieux, Yamaguchi and Gretzky are among the greatest to take to the ice, the most famous name on the slippery surface belongs to a slow, clunky, 53-year-old ...

The Zamboni Company and the National Hockey League (NHL) have partnered with Kool Karz Playground to launch the world's first electric Zamboni ride-on toy. After many years in development, the Kool ...