Space Justin Robot Will Fix Your Satellites, Look Cool Doing It
If your satellite isn't so far gone as to require harvesting and zombification by DARPA but could still use a tune-up, SpaceJustin the Space Robot is here to help. Or at least, they're working on it...
View ArticleStretchy battery drawn to three times its size
Researchers have demonstrated a flat, "stretchy" battery that can be pulled to three times its size without a loss in performance. While flexible and stretchable electronics have been on the rise,...
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Mind of its own: building a human brain
At the end of last year a group of academics at the University of Cambridge asked a simple question: which developments in human technology pose 'new, extinction-level risks to our species as a whole’?...
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3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production
Picture an assembly line not that isn’t made up of robotic arms spewing sparks to weld heavy steel, but a warehouse of plastic-spraying printers producing light, cheap and highly efficient automobiles....
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HAL Robotic Suit Gets International Safety Certificate
We've been following the HAL robotic suit for a while now, and for good reason: Look at that thing! That looks like the future right there. And now it's gotten a worldwide stamp of safety approval....
View ArticleRobot to Human: “Trust Me”
Researchers in Europe explored how well rescuers worked with robots in disaster situations. They found the relationships a bit strained. In a crisis control center, several teams of firefighters in...
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Nonprofit To Send A Married Couple Skimming Past Mars In 2018
An audacious plan to send two people looping around Mars and back has a lot of crazy components--who will pay for it? Who will design and build the special rocket and spaceship for this mission? How...
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The Wildly Ambitious Quest to Build a Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton by 2014
Neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis went on The Daily Show in 2011 and told Jon Stewart that he would develop a robotic body suit that would allow paralyzed people to walk again simply by thinking about it...
View ArticleIntercontinental mind-meld unites two rats
The brains of two rats on different continents have been made to act in tandem. When the first, in Brazil, uses its whiskers to choose between two stimuli, an implant records its brain activity and...
View ArticleMouse brain cells live long and prosper
Mouse brain cells scamper close to eternal life: They can actually outlive their bodies. Mouse neurons transplanted into rat brains lived as long as the rats did, surviving twice as long as the mouse’s...
View ArticleNanoscribe claims world’s fastest commercially available nano-3D printer title
Shoes, robots, houses and prosthetic hands, 3D printing has already gone well beyond the bounds of model making, and biotechnology is another of the new frontiers where the technology is set to make a...
View ArticlePet Prosthetics: Bionic Devices Let Injured Animals Roam Again
The artificial limb technology that has let disabled people walk again has been revolutionizing veterinary medicine in recent years. For over a century, veterinarians had resorted to full-limb...
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Brown University creates first wireless, implanted brain-computer interface
Researchers at Brown University have succeeded in creating the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable, long-term brain-computer interface. The wireless BCIs have been implanted in pigs and monkeys...
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Micro 3-D Printer Creates Tiny Structures in Seconds
Nanoscribe, a spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, has developed a tabletop 3-D microprinter that can create complicated microstructures 100 times faster than is possible...
View ArticleMental Picture of Others Can Be Seen Using fMRI, Finds New Study
It is possible to tell who a person is thinking about by analyzing images of his or her brain. Our mental models of people produce unique patterns of brain activation, which can be detected using...
View ArticleMan Shoots Robot, Gets Charged with Vandalism
Robots aren't people. This is why we get them to do all kinds of stuff that we'd rather not do, whether it's dull, dirty, dangerous, or other sinister words that start with "d." Robots don't have...
View ArticlePolite Robot Overlords Will Be More Persuasive
Baking cupcakes can be as much a matter of social interaction as it is a mechanical exercise. Never is this more true than when your kitchen partner is a robot. Their always-right, ego-deflating advice...
View Article3D-Printed Skull Implant Ready for Operation
3D printing technology has helped replace 75 percent of a patient's skull with the approval of U.S. regulators. The 3D-printed implant can replace the bone in people's skulls damaged by disease or...
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Mice Get Smarter After Scientists Inject Them With Human Brain Cells
When you think of a brain, you might imagine a flashing chain of neurons beaming messages to one another. But a new paper suggests that's not the whole story, and they found this out by PUTTING HUMAN...
View ArticleWeb-based 'brain' for robots goes live
Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now get help online. European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database of information to help them cope....
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