'Iron Man' Exoskeleton Could Give Astronauts Superhuman Strength
Astronauts could one day get a power surge from hi-tech robotic suits, like real-life versions of "Iron Man" hero Tony Stark. That's not to suggest that spaceflyers will soon become superheroes; most...
View ArticleBrain scans could lead to consciousness 'gold standard'
It can be nearly impossible to know what is happening in the mind of someone who has experienced a severe brain injury, but two new methods could offer some clues. Together, they provide not only a...
View ArticleComputer Can Read Letters Directly from the Brain
By analysing MRI images of the brain with an elegant mathematical model, it is possible to reconstruct thoughts more accurately than ever before. In this way, researchers from Radboud University...
View ArticleDARPA wants computers that fuse with higher human brain function
In the never-ending quest to get computers to process, really understand and actually reason, scientists at Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency want to look more deeply into how computers can...
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Watch JPL's RoboSimian Do Pull-Ups
YES! IT'S STARTING! The DARPA Robotics Challenge is mere months (four months) away, and we're now beginning to get some early looks at progress on those spectacular Track A robots. This is RoboSimian,...
View ArticleMajority of Willow Garage Employees Move to Suitable Technologies, PR2 Still...
Suitable Technologies, the Willow Garage spinout that created the Beam remote presence system, announced today that it has "retained a majority of employees from Willow Garage." A press release sent...
View ArticleCan an AI Get Into the University of Tokyo?
For the thousands of secondary school students who take Japan’s university entrance exams each year, test days are long-dreaded nightmares of jitters and sweaty palms. But the newest test taker can be...
View ArticleFord looks to space robots for help on connected cars
Ford this week announced that it will begin studying space robots to improve its own vehicle communications systems. In a press release published Wednesday, the American automaker said the research...
View ArticleDisaster Robot Hopes to Go Where Humans Can't
Drexel University roboticists are competing in $2 million challenge to develop human-like robot that could avert a nuclear disaster A nuclear reactor is on the verge of meltdown. Deep inside the...
View ArticleThese Tech Billionaires Are Determined to Buy Their Way Out of Death
When you're worth billions, you can buy your way out of just about anything. Well, except for death of course. Or maybe not. In a quest to live infinitely, five financiers are heavily funding longevity...
View ArticleHow the Brain Remembers Pleasure: Implications for Addiction
Key details of the way nerve cells in the brain remember pleasure are revealed in a study by University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) researchers published today in the journal Nature Neuroscience....
View ArticleDynamic Vision Sensor tech works like human retina
(Phys.org) —If technology expertise can advance artificial intelligence, what can we imagine for artificial vision? An interesting development in artificial vision comes from a Swiss company iniLabs....
View ArticleThe next generation of carers and security guards
Specialist robots will learn how to act intelligently in real-world environments, supporting security guards or care home assistants, in a multi-million Euro project. The aim of the research is to...
View ArticleResearcher Controls Colleague's Motions in First Human Brain-To-Brain Interface
University of Washington researchers have performed what they believe is the first noninvasive human-to-human brain interface, with one researcher able to send a brain signal via the Internet to...
View ArticleMiniature brains grown in test tubes – a new path for neuroscience?
Stem cell scientists at Edinburgh and the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna grew this organoid, or tiny 'brain', which measures just 4mm across. Photograph: Madeline A Lancaster/PA...
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NASA Tests Limits of 3-D Printing with Powerful Rocket Engine Check
NASA.gov – The largest 3-D printed rocket engine component NASA ever has tested blazed to life Thursday, Aug. 22 during an engine firing that generated a record 20,000 pounds of thrust. This test is a...
View ArticleCopy Protection for 3-D Printing Aims to Prevent a Piracy Plague
People in the 3-D printing world have talked for years about the possibility of unauthorized copying and sharing of designs—similar to what the file-sharing program Napster allowed for music. Now the...
View ArticleDARPA Creating ‘Warrior Web’ Suit
DARPA, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is looking to create a special suit for the military called Warrior Web that would prevent injury and boost endurance. One of the most common...
View ArticleRetro Robots, Mobile Manipulation, and Mario
I have to imagine that when you work at an industrial robotics company, it must be a lot of fun to come up with trade show demos. You can throw practicality and efficiency entirely out the window, and...
View ArticleTransparent Artificial Muscle Plays Music to Prove a Point
In a materials science laboratory at Harvard University, a transparent disk connected to a laptop fills the room with music -- it's the "Morning" prelude from Peer Gynt, played on an ionic speaker. No...
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