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New York Times / This Man Is Not a Cyborg. Yet
GET right up close to Dmitry Itskov and sniff all you like — you will not pick up even the faintest hint of crazy. He is soft-spoken and a bit shy, but expansive once he gets talking, and endearingly...
View ArticleA Step Closer to Artificial Livers: Researchers Identify Compounds That Help...
Prometheus, the mythological figure who stole fire from the gods, was punished for this theft by being bound to a rock. Each day, an eagle swept down and fed on his liver, which then grew back to be...
View ArticleDARPA's Virtual Robotics Challenge: OSRF Gets Simulator Ready
The most anticipated robot event of the year, the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), is heating up. In fact, the DRC isn't just a single event. It actually consists of three increasingly difficult...
View ArticleFlying Quadrotors with Your Mind
Bin He, a biomedical engineering professor at the University of Minnesota, is developing tools to help people with disabilities. But part of that research involves some studies that look like pure fun....
View ArticleMind-controlled exoskeleton lets paralysed people walk
TWO years ago, Antonio Melillo was in a car crash that completely severed his spinal cord. He has not been able to move or feel his legs since. And yet here I am, in a lab at the Santa Lucia Foundation...
View ArticleQuantum Teleportation Between Atomic Systems Over Long Distances
Researchers have been able to teleport information from light to light at a quantum level for several years. In 2006, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute succeeded in teleporting between light and...
View ArticleSurgeons Implant Bioengineered Vein: Kidney Dialysis Patient First in U.S. to...
In a first-of-its-kind operation in the United States, a team of doctors at Duke University Hospital helped create a bioengineered blood vessel and implanted it into the arm of a patient with end-stage...
View ArticleRobot Scout Finds Fires With 3D Thermal Imaging
We hear about lots of robots that could potentially be used for "search and rescue" or "disaster relief," because that's kind of what you say when you've made a robot that doesn't have a commercial or...
View ArticleThe Memristor’s Fundamental Secrets Revealed
You would expect that a new fundamental passive circuit element, first postulated a mere 42 years ago, and first identified in the wild in 2008, would be as rare as hen's teeth. You'd be wrong. It...
View ArticleBionic eye promises vision for the blind
Monash University is preparing to launch technology that should allow blind users to make out objects and other people. World-leading technology that could help restore vision to a large number of...
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iRobot and Cisco Team Up to Create Ava 500 Telepresence Robot
One of the biggest companies in robotics has teamed up with one of the biggest in telepresence to create a new remote collaboration robot. iRobot and Cisco announced today they are working together to...
View ArticleNew Tasks Become as Simple as Waving a Hand With Brain-Computer Interfaces
Small electrodes placed on or inside the brain allow patients to interact with computers or control robotic limbs simply by thinking about how to execute those actions. This technology could improve...
View ArticleTrilogy of 2-D Materials Could Constitute Future Electronics
Researchers at Rice University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are aiming to remake the world of two-dimensional materials, including graphene, molybdenum disulfide (MDS) and hexagonal boron...
View ArticleFingernails Reveal Clues to Limb Regeneration
Mammals possess the remarkable ability to regenerate a lost fingertip, including the nail, nerves and even bone. In humans, an amputated fingertip can sprout back in as little as two months, a...
View ArticleNanoparticle Opens the Door to Clean-Energy Alternatives
Cheaper clean-energy technologies could be made possible thanks to a new discovery. Led by Raymond Schaak, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, research team members have found that an...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE UPDATE ABOUT GF2045 CONGRESS
We are very excited to inform you that the GF2045 congress organized by the 2045 Initiative has attracted a lot of attention from all over the world. Over 800 attendees have already registered with two...
View ArticleCNBC / Immortality by 2035?
How's this for a weekend conference: Some of the smartest people in the world are gathering in New York to try to figure out how to build lifelike copies of humans ... to be eventually uploaded with...
View ArticleCBS New York / Russian tycoon seeks human immortality, artificial brains by 2045
NEW YORK. A Russian multimillionaire said he would like to see the technology to allow humans to outlive their bodies made into a reality - to the point where "people" with artificial computer-driven...
View ArticleDmitry Itskov Knows He'll Live Forever; Here's How He's Living Now
NEW YORK -- No sooner has Dmitry Itskov, a 32-year-old Russian multimillionaire, sat down at the table in his hotel room than he springs up again and begins pawing through the snacks in the minibar. He...
View ArticleForbes / Dmitry Itskov Wants To Live Forever. (He Wants You To Live Forever,...
At the Global Future 2045 conference (GF2045) in New York City on June 15-16, 2013, emcee Philippe van Nedervelde said, “It used to be that the only sure things are death and taxes. Soon, it will just...
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