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1) Mind Reading' is Possible: Researchers from the University of Washington successfully sent thoughts over the Internet in an unprecedented mind-reading experiment that shows two brains can be linked directly to allow one person to guess what is on the other person's mind
2) Man With A 'Complete Spinal Cord Injury' Learns To Walk Again. Researchers create a bionic exoskeleton that allowed a paralyzed man to walk using only his own brain waves.
http://www.cnet.com/news/paralysed-man-walks-on-his-own-legs-no-exoskeleton-involved/
3) You might be ready to write-off 3D printing as one of those technologies that never really lived up to the initial hype, but it's beginning to prove its usefulness in a host of medical treatments. American researchers developed 3D-printed scaffolds that can encourage damaged human nerve cells to grow back.
4) Scientists have identified a protein that helps heart muscle cells regenerate following a heart attack, and a patch packed full of these proteins and placed directly on the heart was shown to greatly improve cardiac function and survival rates in both mice and pigs.
5) Google and Boston Dynamics’ latest robot is now going through basic training with the US Marine Corps, which recently recruited the robo-dog for field trials. Spot, the four-legged robot, can trot on a smooth surface, navigate a variety of terrain with ease and maintain its balance even when being kicked.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/google-robot-dog-marines/
6) What’s the future of drones? In a snazzy new video filmed at Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland, quadrocopters are shown flying around and putting together a very sturdy rope bridge that could support the weight of a human being.
http://robohub.org/watch-flying-machines-weave-a-rope-bridge-you-can-walk-on/
TV Presenter: Olesya Yermakova @olesyayermakova
Video: Vladimir Shlykov www.GetYourMedia.ru
Hair&Make-up: Nataliya Starovoytova
Sources:
UW (University of Washington), University of California Irvine (UCI), UMN College of Science and Engineering, SciNews, The United States Marine Corps, Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control, Gramazio Kohler Research at ETH Zurich, UC San Diego/SBP, BioDigital
www.techtimes.com, www.gizmag.com, www.cnet.com, www.medicaldaily.com, www.sciencealert.com, www.hngn.com, www.digitaltrends.com