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Painting robot lends surgeons a hand
Would you let an artist perform life-saving surgery on you? You might someday, if the artist is a painting robot. Timothy Lee built a robotic painting arm that can replicate the lines and shapes a...
View ArticleA Tumbleweed Robot to Stop the Spread of Deserts
Desertification is a massive problem across the globe. We have a general idea of what causes it: unsustainable agricultural practices, mining, climate change, general land overuse. But much like...
View Article'Google-Like' Database of Brain Scans May Help Doctors Treat Disorders
A team of Johns Hopkins engineers and radiologists are building a "Google-like" searchable digital library of children's brain scans in an effort to improve the way doctors treat and diagnose patients...
View ArticleYour memory is no video camera: It edits the past with present experiences
Your memory is a wily time traveler, plucking fragments of the present and inserting them into the past, reports a new study. In terms of accuracy, it's no video camera. Rather, memory rewrites the...
View ArticleKansas teen uses 3-D printer to make hand for boy
Mason Wilde has always had a passion for figuring out how things work. Mason Wilde, 16, has been building things since he was little. He put his skills to good use by using the Johnson County Library’s...
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A Mind-Controlled Robotic Hand With A Sense Of Touch
Denis Aabo Sørensen lost his left hand nine years ago, while handling fireworks. Since then, he has used prosthetic hands, but never one like this. Last year, a team of European engineers created for...
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Who Is SCHAFT, the Robot Company Bought by Google and Winner of the DRC?
The DARPA Robotics Challenge held its inaugural competition last December, and by most accounts (including ours), it was a success. The DRC Trials drew huge public interest, and the teams and their...
View ArticleSurgeons make first FDA-approved 'bionic eye' transplants
Surgeons at the University of Michigan Health System have made the first officially FDA-approved "bionic eye" transplants, allowing patients with a degenerative eye disease to make out light and...
View ArticleFirst FDA-approved bionic eye implant could cure blindness
The idea of fusing humans with robotic parts was once in the domans of sci-fi novels and movies but it could well turn out to be the future of science. Surgeons at the University of Michigan have...
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The Pentagon's brain implants that could REVERSE memory loss caused by brain...
A new implantable probe could reverse memory loss for the hundreds of thousands of troops who've suffered brain injuries since 2000. And while The Pentagon-developed project is focused on the more...
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Exclusive: The miracle cure - scientists turn human skin into stem cells
A simple laboratory process raises hopes of a cure for serious illnesses including heart disease and Parkinson's, and could lead to the creation of embryos, according to one scientist Human skin cells...
View ArticleUS military begins work on brain implants that can restore lost memories,...
DARPA, at the behest of the US Department of Defense, is developing a black box brain implant — an implant that will be wired into a soldier’s brain and record their memories. If the soldier then...
View ArticleGoogle's Kurzweil says the machines will think for themselves by 2040, and oh...
Google engineering director Ray Kurzweilis, undoubtedly, one of the most accomplished men of our time. The relentless inventor — whose credits include the flatbed scanner, optical character resolution...
View ArticleScientists identify gene linking brain structure to intelligence
For the first time, scientists have identified a gene linking the thickness of the grey matter in the brain to intelligence. Teenagers carrying a particular gene variant had a thinner cortex in the...
View ArticleVirgin Atlantic launches Google Glass pilot scheme
Concierge staff in the airline’s Upper Class Wing will be using Google Glass and other wearable technology as part of a six week pilot scheme in an industry first. Staff will use the Glass google to...
View ArticleNo Hands! Mind-Controlled Helicopter Flies On Brainwaves
It may seem like science fiction, but researchers are experimenting with a mind-controlled device that enables users to fly a model helicopter with only their thoughts. Researchers at the University of...
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'RoboCop' not so sci-fi anymore
Nanosuits, powerful prosthetics, and brain-computer interfacing seemed far-fetched when the original movie hit theaters. Now, with a remake nearly three decades later, the plot is closer to reality...
View ArticleTiny motors controlled inside human cell
For the first time, scientists have placed tiny motors inside living human cells and steered them magnetically. The advance represents another step towards molecular machines that can be used, for...
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3D printed pelvis helps man with rare bone cancer keep walking
A surgeon has helped a man to walk again by 3D-printing him a new pelvis, it has been reported. The unnamed patient had half of his original pelvis removed to stop the spread of chondrosarcoma, a rare...
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Sir James Dyson reveals his firm are entering the race to build an affordable...
British inventor Sir James Dyson has revealed he is working on an affordable robot to carry out chores around the house. The entrepreneur said this week he will announce a £5 million investment in a...
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