Russian Tycoon Aims to Make Immortality a Reality Using Robots
A Russian multi-millionaire is targeting the business community to raise money to fund a project that aims to make immortality a reality by 2045. It may sound like something straight out of a science...
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On the Horizon: Implants with Built-in Sensors that Can Shake off Infection?
Keat Ghee Ong envisions a new generation of implantable biosensors. Not only could they signal if all is well (or not) after surgery, they would do it with no batteries and no computer chips. Plus,...
View ArticleFlashing fish brains filmed in action
At first glance, it looks like an oddly shaped campfire: smoky grey shapes light up with red sparks and flashes. But the video actually represents a different sort of crackle — the activity of...
View ArticleHow would you like to invest in immortality?
FORTUNE -- Startups devise some fairly clever tactics to sell investors on their business models, but Russian tech entrepreneur Dmitry Itskov's newest venture sells itself: Invest in his new research...
View ArticleImplant Monitors Blood in Real Time
A simple blood test is one of the best ways to gauge someone's health, but the process is by no means perfect. In addition to requiring a trip to a lab, blood tests are sometimes painful and require...
View ArticleExclusive interview: Ray Kurzweil discusses his first two months at Google
In another exclusive interview with Singularity Hub, Ray Kurzweil provides an update about his first two months as Director of Engineering at Google. During the interview Kurzweil revealed that his...
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So It Begins: Darpa Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves
The Pentagon’s blue-sky research agency is readying a nearly four-year project to boost artificial intelligence systems by building machines that can teach themselves — while making it easier for...
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A Strange Computer Promises Great Speed
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Our digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that are the stuff of modern computer code. But a powerful new type of computer that is about to be...
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Japanese Robot Actroid Gets More Social, Has No Fear of Crowds
Actroid-SIT, a lifelike robot from Japanese firm Kokoro, hasn't received as much attention as her cousin Geminoid F, which happens to be a copy a real woman. But while Geminoid F is a teleoperated...
View ArticleOff-Road Robots Scamper Across Sand
A six-legged, hamster-sized robot that can easily scamper across sand, gravel and similarly unstable surfaces could lead to better rovers for exploring Mars and other alien worlds, researchers say....
View ArticleFrom Complex Living Systems to Smarter Computers
The European collaborative research Project "SWAM-ORGAN" tries to understand complex living systems such as cells making an organ, or the spatially-controlled growing of a plant, and to apply these...
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Guiding stem cells into damaged hearts with MRI and ultrasonics
Stem-cell therapy for damaged hearts is a brilliant idea whose time has not yet come. The problem: no way to ensure against faulty initial placement of the stem cells. Stanford’s Sam Gambhir, PhD, MD,...
View ArticleStanford researchers develop tool for reading the minds of mice
Stanford scientists have developed a system for observing real-time brain activity in a live mouse. The device could prove useful in studying new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases, such as...
View ArticleCarbon Aerogel Supersponge Could Soak Up Oil Spills
Researchers in China claim to have produced the world’s lightest aerogel. The feather-like aerogel is synthesized from a combination of carbon nanotubes and graphene and weighs in at 0.16 milligrams...
View ArticleBetter Eyes for Flying Robots
New systems could improve the vision of micro aerial vehicles. Aerial robotics research has brought us flapping hummingbirds, seagulls,bumblebees, and dragonflies. But if these robots are to do...
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Would You Buy a Telenoid from Outer Space?
This is the year 2250. At the space railway station on planet Telvikos, the small robot Telenoid R1 is waiting for his departure to Earth. It is already nighttime on Telvikos, and Telenoid can be...
View ArticleElectrocardiogram, Pulse Wave Measured With Steering Wheel
Toyota Motor Corp, Denso Corp and Nippon Medical School showed a system that measures the electrocardiogram and pulse wave of an anto driver by using the steering wheel for detecting the precursors of...
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Phone app companies will soon be able to sell details based on your brainwaves
Brain-computer interfaces used for medical and research since 1920s But as the technology becomes cheaper it has broken out of the lab There is now a burgeoning 'neuromarketing' industry Technology...
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A Robot With Heart
"Our miniature bio-bot is made of a flexible polymer and living heart cells. The cells beat together, creating a contracting and releasing motion that inches the bot forward. We use a 3-D printer to...
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How One Russian Millionaire Wants To Save The World … With Immortal Cyborgs
Dmitry Itskov has a plan to save humanity from impending doom. The question is whether we will still be “human,” if Itskov’s dreams come true. At least, that’s one of the many, many questions. The...
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