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Fellow Immortalists! Many of the daily letters that the 2045 Initiative and I receive ask the question: will only the very rich be able to afford an avatar in the future, or will they be relatively...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Robots Become Role Models
When you spend a lot of time with someone, their characteristics can rub off on you. But what happens when that someone is a robot? As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly human, their...
View ArticleThe 'Curious' Robots Searching for the Ocean's Secrets
People have been exploring the Earth since ancient times—traversing deserts, climbing mountains, and trekking through forests. But there is one ecological realm that hasn’t yet been well explored: the...
View ArticleBoston Dynamics’ newest robot: Introducing Handle
Handle is a research robot standing 6.5 ft tall, travels at 9 mph and jumps 4 feet vertically. It uses electric power to operate both electric and hydraulic actuators, with a range of about 15 miles on...
View ArticleGhost Minitaur™ Highly Agile Direct-Drive Quadruped Demonstrates Why Legged...
Ghost Robotics, a leader in fast and lightweight direct-drive (gearless) legged robots, announced today that its patent-pending Ghost Minitaur™ has been updated with advanced reactive behaviors for...
View ArticleResearchers Take A Step Toward Mind-Controlled Robots
What if your friend the robot could tell what you're thinking, without you saying a word? Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and Boston University have created a...
View ArticleBrain activity appears to continue after people are dead, according to new study
Brain activity may continue for more than 10 minutes after the body appears to have died, according to a new study. Canadian doctors in an intensive care unit appear to have observed a person's brain...
View ArticleNASA Gives Rover An Origami-Inspired Robot Scout
NASA has started testing an origami-inspired scout robot that will be used to explore the Martian surface. Mars exploration missions have gained traction in the last few years, and space agencies are...
View ArticleWhat humans will look like in 1,000 years
Humans are still evolving, So, where will evolution take us in 1,000 years?Chances are we’ll be taller. Humans have already seen a boom in height over the last 130 years. In 1880 the average American...
View ArticleBionic hand that can see for itself makes things easy to grasp
An artificial hand is using artificial intelligence to see with an artificial eye. The new prosthetic can choose how best to grab objects placed in front of it automatically, making it easier to use....
View ArticleFreaky Ostrich-like running robot built for ‘planetary exploration’ (VIDEOS)
It may look like an ostrich cantering over the ground, but the Planar Elliptical Runner could become the model for a human-sized running robot – and even aid “planetary exploration.” Developed by the...
View ArticleMIT teaches machines to learn from each other
There are two typical ways to train a robot today: you can have it watch repeated demonstrations of what you want it to do or you can program its movements directly using motion-planning techniques....
View ArticleI Spy With My DragonflEye: Scientists 'Hack' Insect to Create Cyborg Drone
Many might think of a cyborg as something out of a science-fiction movie script, but scientists have found a way to alter a living dragonfly so they can control its movements. As countries like the...
View ArticleMeet the Most Nimble-Fingered Robot Yet
A dexterous multi-fingered robot practiced using virtual objects in a simulated world, showing how machine learning and the cloud could revolutionize manual work. Inside a brightly decorated lab at the...
View ArticleThis wriggling worm-bot could be used for colonoscopies one day
Nobody needs to reinvent the wheel, but reinventing the colonoscope is definitely worth somebody’s time. Mark Rentschler, an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, is one of those...
View ArticleIf we want bionic limbs that actually work, we might need smarter amputations
Prosthetic limbs are advancing in leaps and bounds. They’re becoming computerized, brain-controlled, and sensational. But as futuristic as these bionic limbs are, users often prefer simpler devices...
View ArticleThe bionic skin to help robots feel
Meet the team behind the 3D-printed stretchable sensors equipping machines with a sense of touch. Robots can’t feel. Or can they? Engineering researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a...
View ArticleNASA releases footage of robot 'Valkyrie'
Scientists from the United States space agency NASA teamed up with the Johnson Space Center to test the agency's new robot Valkyrie, an android that has a head, two arms and two legs. The robot is...
View ArticlehitchBOT creators to study how AI and robots can help patients
McMaster and Ryerson universities today announced the Smart Robots for Health Communication project, a joint research initiative designed to introduce social robotics and artificial intelligence into...
View ArticleThis Parkour Robot Easily Bounces Its Way Over Obstacles
With a spinning tail and small thrusters, it has total control over its orientation in mid-air so that it’s always ready for the next hop. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have...
View ArticleNeuron-integrated nanotubes to repair nerve fibers
Carbon nanotubes exhibit interesting characteristics rendering them particularly suited to the construction of special hybrid devices consisting of biological issue and synthetic material. These could...
View ArticleRice team developing flat microscope for the brain
Rice University engineers are building a flat microscope, called FlatScope, and developing software that can decode and trigger neurons on the surface of the brain. Their goal as part of a new...
View ArticleMIT’s Cheetah 3 robot is built to save lives
The latest version of MIT’s Cheetah robot made its stage debut today at TC Sessions: Robotics in Cambridge, Mass. It’s a familiar project to anyone who follows the industry with any sort of regularity,...
View ArticleBionic Man vs Robots: Winning The Jobs Battle
Ever since the Luddites fought back against 19th century industrialization, people have worried about robots ‘stealing’ their jobs. Time and again, the threat has proved real but transitory as new jobs...
View ArticleThis swimming robot may have finally spotted melted nuclear fuel inside...
A robot swimming in the depths of one of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors may have spotted lumps of molten nuclear fuel inside. If it did, it would be the first robot to successfully locatethe radioactive...
View ArticleThis slug slime-inspired glue can patch up bloody pig hearts and gooey rat...
A new class of tissue glues can seal a punctured pig heart, new research says. Called Tough Adhesives, these new glues could one day help close up wounds in the hard-to-reach, slimy depths of our...
View ArticleUniversity of Adelaide test dragonfly neuron for artificial vision system in...
A dragonfly's ability to predict the movement of its prey is being harnessed to improve the way driverless cars manoeuvre in traffic. Researchers from the University of Adelaide and Lund University in...
View ArticleSilicon Valley is selling an ancient dream of immortality
In 1999, the futurist Ray Kurzweil published a book entitled The Age of Spiritual Machines. He looked forward to a future in which the “human species, along with the computational technology it...
View ArticleA robot that will replace your smartphone is already in the works
One day, we will all have robots instead of smartphones. The life-like droids will advise you on various matters, help you buy things, and even make your coffee just the way you like it. That’s the...
View ArticleA Bionic Lens Undergoing Clinical Trials Could Give You Superhuman Abilities...
Maybe you watched Ghost in the Shell and maybe afterwards you and your friend had a conversation about whether or not you would opt in for some bionic upgrades if that was possible - like a liver that...
View ArticleThis vacuum-activated modular robot is equally nasty and neat
Soft robots are a major area of research right now, but the general paradigm seems to be that you pump something (a muscle or tube) full of something else (air, fluid) causing it to change its shape....
View ArticleHow to draw electricity from the bloodstream
Men build dams and huge turbines to turn the energy of waterfalls and tides into electricity. To produce hydropower on a much smaller scale, Chinese scientists have now developed a lightweight power...
View ArticleAmbitious neuroscience project to probe how the brain makes decisions
World-leading neuroscientists have launched an ambitious project to answer one of the greatest mysteries of all time: how the brain decides what to do. The international effort will draw on expertise...
View ArticleThis robotic glove will give you bionic hands
A startup called Nuada has developed a soft, robotic glove that gives people with hand pain or weakness a strong grip. According to co-founders Filipe Quinaz and Vitor Crespo, the glove contains a...
View ArticleDeus ex machina: former Google engineer is developing an AI god
Way of the Future, a religious group founded by Anthony Levandowski, wants to create a deity based on artificial intelligence for the betterment of society Intranet service? Check. Autonomous...
View ArticleAre Computers Already Smarter Than Humans?
Who’s smarter — you, or the computer or mobile device on which you’re reading this article? The answer is increasingly complex, and depends on definitions in flux. Computers are certainly more adept at...
View ArticleRobots could destabilise world through war and unemployment, says UN
United Nations opens new centre in Netherlands to monitor artificial intelligence and predict possible threats The UN has warned that robots could destabilise the world ahead of the opening of a...
View ArticleMIT’s remote control robot system puts VR to work
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has come up with a use for virtual reality headsets that goes beyond firing them up, checking out a new game, muttering “cool” briefly...
View ArticleSpeedy collision detector could make robots better human assistants
Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a faster collision detection algorithm that uses machine learning to help robots avoid moving objects and weave through...
View ArticleBOSTON DYNAMICS' ATLAS ROBOT DOES BACKFLIPS NOW AND IT'S FULL-TILT INSANE
ATLAS, THE HULKING humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics, now does backflips. I’ll repeat that. It’s a hulking humanoid that does backflips. Check out the video below, because it shows a hulking humanoid...
View ArticleToyota Unveils Third Generation Humanoid Robot T-HR3
Toyota City, Japan, November 21, 2017―Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) today revealed T-HR3, the company's third generation humanoid robot. Toyota's latest robotics platform, designed and developed by...
View ArticleThis New Lightweight Humanoid Robot Can Put Out Fires And Pick Up Debris
Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova, Italy tested a new robotic avatar they say could be used for emergency response teams in the future. The robotic avatar, called the...
View ArticleDeath-Bringing 'Brain Tsunamis' Have Been Observed in Humans For The First Time
For the first time, researchers have been able to study the moment brain death becomes irreversible in the human body, observing the phenomenon in several Do Not Resuscitate patients as they died in...
View ArticleIt's Official: Elon Musk Will Send Humans to Mars in 2024
On the last day of the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage to talk about his company’s BFR project. Moreover, sharing details on how the...
View ArticleGoogle's quantum computing breakthrough: Our new chip might soon outperform...
Google's Quantum AI Lab has shown off a new 72-qubit quantum processor called 'Bristlecone', which it says could soon achieve 'quantum supremacy' by outperforming a classical supercomputer on some...
View ArticleThis WALK-MAN robot can go places too dangerous for humans
Humanoid robots may not be ready to take your job. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be useful. Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology built a robot they called WALK-MAN that they say is...
View ArticleWith a spacecraft in trouble and the White House watching, SpaceX had to deliver
Within minutes of liftoff, it was clear the Dragon spacecraft was in trouble. Inside mission control on the morning of March 1, 2013, the SpaceX team was desperately trying to figure out what went...
View ArticleIBM Highlights 5 Technologies It Hopes To Pioneer In 5 Years
We tend to think of innovation as being about ideas. A lone genius working in a secret lab somewhere screams "Eureka!" and the world is instantly changed. But that's not how the real world works. In...
View Article$10 million XPRIZE Aims for Robot Avatars That Let You See, Hear, and Feel by...
Ever wished you could be in two places at the same time? The XPRIZE Foundation wants to make that a reality with a $10 million competition to build robot avatars that can be controlled from at least...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence is going to completely change your life
Just as electricity transformed the way industries functioned in the past century, artificial intelligence — the science of programming cognitive abilities into machines — has the power to...
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