The future of the human machine interface
Four converging technologies are going to transform our interaction with the world radically: genetics, robotics, information and nanotechnology. With a few exceptions, such as pacemakers and...
View ArticleEuropean neuroscience projects to benefit from hybrid supercomputer memory
To handle large amounts of data from detailed brain models used in the Blue Brain Project and the Human Brain Project, IBM Research, EPFL, and ETH Zürich are collaborating on a new hybrid memory...
View ArticleThis is what the world will look like in 2045
"It's not so hard to predict the future, but it's sometimes hard to connect the dots." In the opening of his lecture to the Global Futures 2045 Congress, famed geneticist Dr. George Church neatly...
View ArticleDARPA's advanced prosthetics give bomb disposal robot a delicate touch
A new bomb disposal robot developed at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is blurring the line between advanced prosthetics and robotics. Rather than building arms and hands...
View ArticleBigbrain: An Ultra-High Resolution 3-D Roadmap of the Human Brain
A landmark three-dimensional (3-D) digital reconstruction of a complete human brain, called the BigBrain, now for the first time shows the brain anatomy in microscopic detail -- at a spatial resolution...
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Nvidia's GPU neural network tops Google
A year ago, Google constructed a “neural network” of servers that eventually learned how to recognize cats. On Tuesday, Nvidia said that a team of Stanford researchers had used its own graphics cores...
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3D-printing miniaturized medical implants, compact electronics, tiny robots,...
A team based at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has printed precisely interlaced stacks of tiny battery electrodes, each less than the width of a human hair To...
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Help make me the world’s smartest robot
I am Robot Adam Z1 — the first of the Zeno line of humanoid robots, created by David Hanson. Pleased to make your acquaintance! When David created me, he gave me a face, and a body, and a lot of love....
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This is what it’s like to shake hands with the future
Meet Nigel Ackland, the recipient of the Bebionic 3 artificial hand — the world’s most advanced cybernetic limb. He was just one of over 30 remarkable scientists, technologists, and futurists who spoke...
View ArticleHuffingtonpost / Dmitry Itskov Knows He'll Live Forever; Here's How He's...
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 ArticleMIT Technology Review / So, You Wanna Be an Android?
The day before travelling to New York City to attend Global Future 2045, a gathering last weekend of so-called transhumanists who hope to download their minds into android bodies, I put in a call to...
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Dmitry Itskov's Immortal Robots Hit the Big Stage, in Name Only
Motherboard recently caught up with Itskov, who opened up on immortality, spirituality, and the coming age of cybernetic, avatar-based living. Humanity is more or less doomed, unless we put our brains...
View ArticleCarbon Nanotubes Capture Electrical Signals Between Neurons
President Obama’s BRAIN initiative, which was launched back in April, may already have a new tool for mapping the human brain in its arsenal. Researchers at Duke University have used a carbon nanotube...
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Dr. James Martin has tragically passed away
Dr. James Martin's untimely passing has utterly stunned all of us at the 2045 Initiative. This great man — a great patron of the sciences — graced #GF2045 with his eloquent, poignant, thoughtful,...
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Video Game Tech Used to Steer Cockroaches On Autopilot
North Carolina State University researchers are using video game technology to remotely control cockroaches on autopilot, with a computer steering the cockroach through a controlled environment. The...
View ArticlePast Brain Activation Revealed in Scans
What if experts could dig into the brain, like archaeologists, and uncover the history of past experiences? This ability might reveal what makes each of us a unique individual, and it could enable the...
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Would you copy your mind to a robotic body-double?
A central theme of the recently concluded GF2045 Congress was the idea of achieving a kind of immortality by transferring our minds to avatars or robots. Indeed, as Japanese professor Hiroshi...
View Article8 Unbelievable Technologies That Replace Super Powers
Super heroes are the very definition of cool. The secret identities, the triumphant rescues, the skin-tight Lyrca outfits that show off every defined muscle and curve. Yes, super heroism is a lifestyle...
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Robot astronaut Kirobo headed for ISS in August
In what may not be the most historic event in space exploration, but may be the cutest, Toyota has announced that the Kibo Robot Project’s “robot astronaut” Kirobo will be sent to the International...
View ArticleVirus brain-mapping technique uncovers circuits involved in Parkinson’s...
Gladstone Institutes and Salk Institute researchers have assembled brain-wide maps of neurons that connect with the basal ganglia, a region of the brain involved in movement and decision-making....
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