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3D Printing Used to Successfully Remove Previously Inoperable Tumor in 5 Year...
3D Printing has been being used increasingly more in the medical field. Whether it is the use of 3D bioprinting, printing of prosthetics, or the 3D printing of models that can be used to study...
View ArticleGoogle finally proves it won’t pursue military contacts, pulls leading robot...
When it comes to fully functional humanoid robots with versatile real-world dexterity, there are basically only two big games in town: ATLAS, a stompy kill-bot created by Boston Dynamics, and SCHAFT, a...
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IMPORTANT! Consciousness on-off switch discovered deep in brain
ONE moment you're conscious, the next you're not. For the first time, researchers have switched off consciousness by electrically stimulating a single brain area. Scientists have been probing...
View ArticlePower consumption of robot joints could be 40 percent less, according to study
Unai Ugalde-Olea, lecturer in the Department of Electronics Technology of the UPV/EHU, has analysed a way of propelling robots in a more energy-efficient way and has shown, on a laboratory level, that...
View ArticleNASA is building robots to 3D-print infrastructure on Mars
From 2024, the Mars One mission plans to launch a crew of four settlers every two years to establish a permanent human colony on Mars. NASA engineer Behrokh Khoshnevis from the University of Southern...
View ArticleRoboHow is translating the internet for robot use
RoboEarth. No, it's not a lame SNES game from 1994, it's a cloud network that lets robots learn from the actions of other bots. It started over three years ago, and now, a new, related project has...
View ArticleIBM betting carbon nanotubes can restore Moore’s Law by 2020
The ongoing collapse of Moore’s Law is one of the least reported stories in technology today. That old canard says that the number of transistors that’s possible to fit onto a chip will double every...
View Article3D printed organs come a step closer
For years, scientists have been able to “print” types of human tissue using a 3D printer, but in a significant leap forward by US and Australian researchers they can now make that tissue survive on its...
View ArticleSnake robot ready for search and rescue missions
Israel has earned itself an enviable reputation in the field of high-tech startups. In Amir Shapiro's lab at Ben-Gurion University in the Israeli city of Beersheba, a new creature is squirming on the...
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3D printer drones will take to skies by 2040, claim BAE scientists
3D printers could be so advanced by 2040 they could create small unmanned aircraft, BAE Systems claim. These unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) could then potentially be used as a group of wide-winged...
View ArticleThe AI boss that deploys Hong Kong's subway engineers
An algorithm schedules and manages the nightly engineering work on one of the world's best subway systems – and does it more efficiently than any human could JUST after midnight, the last subway car...
View ArticleScientists threaten to boycott €1.2bn Human Brain Project
The world's largest project to unravel the mysteries of the human brain has been thrown into crisis with more than 100 leading researchers threatening to boycott the effort amid accusations of...
View ArticleUS military awards $40 million toward memory implant
US military researchers announced Wednesday they have awarded $40 million toward developing a new kind of brain implant that may help restore memories in wounded soldiers and civilians. The work...
View ArticleIBM plows $3 billion into 7nm chip research and ‘post-silicon’ computer...
IBM has announced that it’s plowing $3 billion into two R&D programs that will hopefully make it the authority on 7-nanometer-and-beyond chip technologies. One R&D project will look at pushing...
View ArticleKids with disabilities can teach this robot how to play 'Angry Birds'
As a way to help children dealing with cognitive and motor-skill disabilities, researchers from Georgia Tech have developed a rehabilitation tool that pairs a robot and an Android tablet. To...
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The 10 Most Important Work Skills in 2020
The 10 Most Important Work Skills in 2020 Source: Top10OnlineColleges.org The 6 Drivers of Change○ All of the 10 skills will tie back into these disruptive shifts on the horizon:■ Extreme Longevity●...
View ArticleMake way for the age of the robot
British Government is inviting the world's robotics entrepreneurs to develop their technology on these shores Robots could soon be let loose on decommissioned nuclear sites, farms, abandoned mines and...
View ArticleLG’s flexible and transparent OLED displays are the beginning of the e-paper...
In 2012 it was a flexible e-ink display. In 2013 it was the slightly flexible OLED display used in the G Flex smartphone. And now in 2014 LG has produced a massive, 18-inch OLED display that can be...
View ArticleForget “OK Glass,” MindRDR Is A Google Glass App You Control With Your Thoughts
Google Glass has made a name for itself (somewhat infamously) as head-mounted hardware that you can control with your voice and a sliding finger. Now, a team based out of interactive studio This Place...
View ArticleMicrosoft wants to be part of Judgment Day, too: Introducing the Project Adam...
Microsoft has unveiled Project Adam, its new artificial intelligence that it claims is 50 times faster than comparable state-of-the-art systems deployed by the likes of Google. Adam can look at an...
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