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Making teleportation more energy-efficient
An international team of researchers has achieved an important theoretical result by finding that quantum teleportation – the process of transporting quantum information at the speed of light, which...
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MSU's robofish glides for miles, monitoring pollutants
A new species of robot fish has been spotted in the Kalamazoo River in the state of Michigan, where more than a million gallons of oil spilled in July 2010. Developed primarily by Xiaobo Tan, an...
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Print your own InMoov animatronic robot
Now that 3D printing technology is taking off, some truly unique projects are beginning to emerge from all sorts of talented people. Take Gael Langevin, a French sculptor and model marker who has spent...
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How To Build A Hero
Humans regularly lose their lives rushing into disaster zones. Now engineers are racing to build robots that can take their place. Rescue Bot In the DARPA Robotics Challenge, robots will compete in a...
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Meet ATHLETE, NASA's Next Robot Moon Walker
To build and supply a lunar base, astronauts will need heavy-duty space trucks for transporting gear. There’s just one problem: no roads. That’s why NASA engineers designed the rover they call ATHLETE...
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"Endless" house to be built using giant 3D printer
An Amsterdam-based architecture firm has ambitions to take 3D printing to the next level, by building the world's first 3D-printed house as early as 2014. The team at Universe Architecture, led by...
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Dr. GIY's Pre-made Me robot maid cleans up on the dance floor
Strange as it may seem, in the last few years Japan has been home to a fad where cute girls dressed up as french maids star in J-POP, comics, animation, and video games. The distinctive costume has...
View ArticleA New Fleet Of Robot Asteroid Prospectors Will Launch By 2015
Asteroid Harvesting Newly announced asteroid mining concern Deep Space Industries aims to harvest asteroid material for a 3-D printing outpost, as well as for new space architecture to replace...
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FDA approves first autonomous telemedicine robot for use in hospitals
iRobot and InTouch Health have received the FDA's stamp of approval for their RP-VITA autonomous robot, clearing the way for the bot to begin wandering hospitals throughout the United States. The...
View ArticleBillion-euro brain simulation and graphene projects win European funds
Henry Markram is co-director of the Human Brain Project, one of two programmes to win €500 million of European funding. Efforts to model the whole brain and to push graphene into the marketplace...
View ArticleRay Kurzweil Says We’re Going to Live Forever
Interview by ANDREW GOLDMAN As a futurist, you are famous for making predictions of when technological innovations will actually occur. Are you willing to predict the year you will die? My plan is to...
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NASA working on RASSOR robot space excavator
Recently we've seen preliminary asteroid mining plans from Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, but what about NASA? The government agency would like to do some excavating on the Moon, Mars,...
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A US $49 personal autonomous micro UAV?
Imagine if you had your own tiny quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that you could control with your voice, that would automatically follow you while avoiding obstacles, and that could shoot and...
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Korean nurse bot sniffs the air to detect soiled diapers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may have recently approved iRobot's telepresence robot RP-VITA for use in hospitals, but as far as medical robots are concerned Japan and Korea remain ahead of the...
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U.S. researchers map emotional intelligence of the brain
We tend to think of reason and emotion as being two different things, but it turns out that there may not be a choice between the heart and the head. A University of Illinois team, led by neuroscience...
View ArticleBETTER THAN THE BORG: THE NEUROTECH ERA
What if you could read my mind? What if I could beam what I’m seeing, hearing, and thinking, straight to you, and vice versa? What if an implant could store your memories, augment them, and make you...
View ArticleIn-Brain Monitoring Shows Memory Network
Working with patients with electrodes implanted in their brains, researchers at the University of California, Davis, and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) have shown...
View ArticleCan robots be made creative enough to invent their own language?
Luc Steels delivers the 2012 Simonyi lecture and asks: can machines be creative enough to invent their own language? Professor Steels talks about some of his recent breakthrough experiments, which have...
View ArticleCracking the Retinal Code
Blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. The sentiment expressed by the late Portuguese writer José Saramago in his famous novel Blindness may be...
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How to build a bionic man
Rex the bionic man shows how close technology is to catching up with – and exceeding – the abilities of the human body. A television company asked Dr Bertolt Meyer – who has a prosthetic arm – to...
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