Scientists Offer New Insight Into Neuron Changes Brought About by Aging
How aging affects communication between neurons is not well understood, a gap that makes it more difficult to treat a range of disorders, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. A new study from...
View ArticleGoogle Rumored To Be Pulling Its Team From The DARPA Robotics Challenge
According to a source who has participated in the Pentagon-funded DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), Google is pulling its team from the competition. If the rumor is true it would be a significant move on...
View ArticleTiny swimming bio-bots boldly go where no bot has swum before
A team of engineers has developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the first synthetic structures that can traverse the viscous fluids of biological environments on their own....
View ArticleGoogle To Acquire Artificial Intelligence Company DeepMind
Google is acquiring an artificial intelligence company called DeepMind Technologies. The terms of the deal were undisclosed, but sources with Re/Code report that it was worth around $400 million....
View ArticleNC researchers develop bionic leg that 'listens' to user
For 39-year-old Richard Watson of Lumberton, walking uphill is no problem. It’s coming back down that’s the trouble. Watson had to have his leg amputated in 2009 after it got caught in a machine at...
View ArticleWearable Technology: A Fad Or The Future?
Wearable technology is finally here… And all of a sudden, the kinds of gadgets that I, as a child, imagined my superhero alter ego would sport, no longer seem quite so far-fetched. From wrist-worn...
View ArticleSpider-Man robot spins own web to abseil off a cliff
Spider-Man can leap off tall buildings and swing through the New York skyline by shooting a dragline from his wrist. Now there is a spider-inspired robot that can perform the same trick. It could be...
View ArticleMeet Google's Robot Army. It's Growing
Google can't stop buying robotics companies. In the past two months, eight of the 12 companies the search giant has acquired have "robotics" in their name or descriptions. Here's your complete...
View ArticleImplant measures medication levels in bloodstream, in real time
Figuring out how much medication a patient should be taking can be a tricky business. Although things like age and weight are used as guidelines, factors such as the individual person's metabolism can...
View ArticleEngineers Create Flexible Battery That Runs On Organ Movement
A tiny, patch-like battery that uses the natural movement of organs such as the heart or lungs to generate electricity inside the human body has been developed by engineers at the University of...
View ArticleExperimental Surgery Aims to Revive a Paralyzed Limb
A paralyzed man will receive experimental surgery connecting a brain chip to systems that activate muscles in his arm. Doctors will attempt to reanimate a patient’s paralyzed arm with a pioneering...
View ArticleGoogle sets up artificial intelligence ethics board to curb the rise of the...
Google has set up an ethics board to oversee its work in artificial intelligence. The search giant has recently bought several robotics companies, along with Deep Mind, a British firm creating software...
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Now that's GREEN energy! Robotic lawnmower uses the grass it cuts as fuel
Mowing the lawn can be tedious, but that could change if an eco-friendly prototype robot is widely adopted. U.S. students have created an autonomous machine that not only cuts grass in a specified...
View ArticleReading Brain Waves to Control Music Player, Just About Anything Else
Many people with severe disabilities lack any motor function and rely on others to do just about everything on their behalf. Yet, their brains are often just fine and being able to tap into the organ’s...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence - What You Really Need to Know
It looks like the beginning of a new technology hype for artificial intelligence (AI). The media has started flooding the news with product announcements, acquisitions, and investments. The story is...
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Technological singularity and transhumanism - new world for old
Will technology provide a perfect future for the ascent of man? Or is it wishful thinking by techno-pundits who want to believe human progress is all toward a utopian state of existence? The history of...
View ArticleEngineer at MIT Media Lab Designed his own Bionic Legs
Hugh Herr lost his legs to frostbite as a teenager after a mountain climbing excursion went terribly wrong. Hugh, a self-professed "hacker", worked with wood and metal to create bionic limbs that...
View ArticleTactile contact lens lets you feel the world with your eyeball
An Israeli professor has developed a tactile contact lens that translates images recorded on camera into tactile sensations on the cornea to allow the blind to "see" objects. Professor Zeev Zalevsky,...
View ArticleOmnidirectional Treadmill, Oculus Rift and Haptic Controllers – A Real...
I’m goin in! Oculus Rift had made enough ripple among the gaming industry and had marked a special milestone in the virtual reality gaming. As lot of gamers wondered the right time for the complete...
View ArticleThe Brain And Behavior Research Foundation: Making A Difference In Mental...
The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, an organization which funds cutting edge mental health research, announced important discoveries of 2013 funded by its NARSAD grants. NARSAD is an acronym...
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