A very warm welcome to #14 Avatar Technology Digest. As always we bring you the latest news on Technology, Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence from the most trusted sources.
1) Researchers are now reporting a new technique whereby nanorobots are made to swim swiftly through the fluids like blood to reach their destination.
2) After more than a decade of research, scientists at Stanford University have created a working computer based on the physical movement of water droplets. By combining cutting-edge theory in fluid dynamics with very-much-not-cutting-edge theory in computing, the team was able to create a synchronous computer based entirely on the physics of water.
3) Good news if you want to hold an insect rodeo. The robotic tentacle pictured can handle tiny, fragile objects – capturing an ant without harming it. The soft robot, developed by a group of researched from Iowa State University, can curl itself into a circle with a radius of just 200 micrometres.
4) In a world first, scientists have managed to film a time-lapse video of the death of a white blood cell. What they’ve discovered is that in its final moments of life, it tries to warn the rest of the immune system to the presence of its killer.
5) While disaster robots were making their way through the DARPA Robotics Challenge courses, over in the exhibit area outside, there was another competition taking place: an endurance challenge, also sponsored by DARPA, where robots from Sandia National Labs and SRI International slowly walked on treadmills with the goal of demonstrating how ultra-efficient they could be.
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