Computer 3D printing used to create new hip
Doctors have used 3D printing to create a bespoke hip replacement for a woman who has undergone six previous operations, in one of the first cases of its kind. Surgeons at Southampton University...
View ArticleRobot expert planning to turn Hong Kong into android city
Walking into David Hanson's office in Sheung Wan, a human-looking robot with a cascade of wires sprouting from the back of its head catches your attention. Its eyes are looking in two different...
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Need a hand (or an arm, or a leg)? Hi-tech app controlled and 3D printed...
From app-controlled hands to strap on exoskeletons that can give mobility to those unable to walk, the most hi-tech medical innovations in the world went on show today. The orthopedic world congress...
View ArticleThe Neuroscientist Who Wants To Upload Humanity To A Computer
Everything felt possible at Transhuman Visions 2014, a conference in February billed as a forum for visionaries to "describe our fast-approaching, brilliant, and bizarre future." Inside an old...
View ArticleWould you take orders from a ROBOT? An artificial intelligence becomes the...
Robots have been creeping into our homes, streets and cities – and soon they could be dominating our boardrooms. In a world first, Japanese venture capital firm Deep Knowledge recently named an...
View ArticleRobot suit helps paraplegic patients
For most paraplegic patients, being able to walk again remains a dream. The HAL robot suit can help them regain a certain degree of mobility and activity. An expert team at the Centre for Neurorobotic...
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Aero-X hoverbike goes on sale in 2017: Star Wars racing in your own back yard...
It isn’t a hoverboard, but it is the next best thing: Californian company Aerofex is now taking down payments for the Star Wars-like Aero-X hoverbike. Priced at $85,000 the Aero-X certainly isn’t...
View ArticleVirtual reality's biggest enemy is bad virtual reality, says Oculus founder
Palmer Luckey can hardly take a step without being stopped for pictures, questions or just friendly handshakes. I'm not surprised; we're at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Expo, and Luckey just...
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Lab-on-a-chip can detect cancer in the early stages
Researchers at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) have developed a lab-on-a-chip device that can detect protein cancer markers in a drop of blood, working as a very early cancer-detection...
View ArticleThe Computer That Replicates a Human Brain
What’s the next great computing development? According to Stanford researchers, it’s based on the human brain. Researchers at Stanford University recently announced the development of a circuit board...
View ArticleScientists make deep-brain implants possible through wireless charging
Stanford researchers have figured out a way to wirelessly charge electronic devices that aredeep inside your body. Currently pacemakers and nerve transmitters need to have large receiving coils near...
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Biotech's Brave New World: Push One To Create Life; Push Two To Create Alien...
It’s been a good month for miracles. And by miracles I mean our oldest miracle, that first miracle, the creation of life itself. During these first weeks in May, two separate teams working at two...
View ArticleThe Biggest Worry About Transhumanism
The transhumanism movement is rapidly catching on around the world. Everywhere I look -- whether it's in university laboratories, major news websites, or the boardrooms of tech companies -- the concept...
View ArticleEngineers Build World’s Smallest, Fastest Nanomotor
Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built the smallest, fastest and longest-running tiny synthetic motor to date. The team’s nanomotor is an...
View ArticleScientists Grow Functional Nerve Cells Using Stem Cells
In a major breakthrough, British scientists have generated functional nerve cells from skin cells that could accelerate the development of new drugs and stem cell-based regenerative medicine. To...
View ArticleNew 'T-ray' tech converts light to sound for weapons detection, medical imaging
A device that essentially listens for light waves could help open up the last frontier of the electromagnetic spectrum -- the terahertz range. So-called T-rays, which are light waves too long for human...
View ArticleNeuroscience's grand question: How do neurons regenerate without losing memory?
A new theoretical model to understand how cells monitor and self-regulate their properties in the face of continual turnover of cellular components has been developed by neuroscientists. How the...
View ArticleCan a robot learn right from wrong?
In Isaac Asimov’s short story "Runaround," two scientists on Mercury discover they are running out of fuel for the human base. They send a robot named Speedy on a dangerous mission to collect more, but...
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ISS robot performs first ever ‘self-repair’ in orbit: Multi-limbed Dextre...
Spacewalks are one of the most impressive and dangerous feats an astronaut can perform on the ISS. Fixing critical components often involves lengthy stints outside the spacecraft, with a spacesuit...
View ArticlePhysicists discover ‘clearest evidence yet’ that the Universe is a hologram
A team of physicists have provided what has been described by the journal Nature as the “clearest evidence yet” that our universe is a hologram. The new research could help reconcile one of modern...
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