Robot Used by Fiat-Chrysler Beat NBA Star
Industrial automation company Comau SpA has built a robot that is capable of scoring more three-point shots than NBA champion Marco Belinelli. Called Racer and used by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in its...
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Robotic Experiment Recreates Evolution In Oil And Water
We've seen evolution enacted with early-Earth chemicals, with hermaphroditic robots, and even entirely virtually, using mathematical models. In each, scientists or engineers give the experiment some...
View ArticleNicholas Negroponte: Nanobots in Your Brain Could Be the Future of Learning
Nicholas Negroponte doesn't like to make predictions about the future; he prefers extrapolations based on research. But if pushed to make a guess about future innovation,Negroponte says that...
View ArticleA symphony of machines at the Museum of Mathematics
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“Nanobuds” Could Turn Almost Any Surface into a Touch Sensor
Transparent films containing carbon nanobuds—molecular tubes of carbon with ball-like appendages—could turn just about any surface, regardless of its shape, into a touch sensor. The films were...
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Build Giant Objects in Space With the Help of 3D Printing — Introducing The...
The Trusselator is aimed at creating, through the use of in-space additive manufacturing, a series of high-performance trusses to handle large solar arrays and antennas, and NASA says Tethers Unlimited...
View ArticleThumbs-up for mind-controlled robotic arm
This is an image showing one of four new hand movements from the 10D control of the robotic arm. Credit: Journal of Neural Engineering/IOP Publishing A video of Jan controlling the robotic arm. A...
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Smaller, faster, greener "high-rise" 3D chips are ready for Big Data
A four-story 3-D chip designed at Stanford could help address the current data processing limitations of today's technology (Image: Stanford University) Stanford engineers have pioneered a new design...
View ArticleAmputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb
A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control...
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First Steps for Hector the Robot Stick Insect
A research team at Bielefeld University has succeeded in teaching the only robot of its kind in the world how to walk. Its first steps have been recorded in a video. You can watch them in Bielefeld...
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Computer-based "deep neural network" as good as primates at visual object...
Deep neural networks have studied millions of images and some can now recognize the objects in all of these images in a similar manner and speed to primates (Image: MIT) Computers aren't best suited...
View ArticleBreakthrough of the Year: The top 10 scientific achievements of 2014
Each year, Science’s editors choose a singular scientific achievement as Breakthrough of the Year. Past winners have included the discovery of the Higgs boson, cancer immunotherapy, and the first...
View ArticleBefore It's Too Late: An 'Interstellar' Lesson for Humanity's Future
Movies and books can be time machines — transporting us to future worlds, showing us glimpses of where humanity may be heading. In Interstellar, our future society is struggling to survive, as most...
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Neuroscientists identify brain mechanisms that predict generosity in children
Children were monitored with EEGs while watching animated characters perform prosocial and antisocial behaviors, and later participated in a task measuring generosity. Credit: Jean Decety/University...
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Cells 'feel' their surroundings using finger-like structures
The image shows how the actin within the filopodia contracts while it forms a spiral-shaped structure. The actin inside the filopodium exhibits a marked rotational movement and when it contracts, it...
View ArticlePhylosophy question - Michio Kaku: Can We Download Our Brains?
One day we might be able to download our consciousness into a computer chip, preserving our personalities forever—but first we will have to better understand brain architecture.
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The 8 Most Game-Changing Innovations Of 2014
As the year draws to a close, it’s worth glancing over our shoulder. What technologies and themes were brightest in 2014? Read on. (And keep in mind, attempting such a summation is ambitious to the...
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Industrial Designer Creates The ‘Exo’ 3D Printed Prosthetic Leg with...
Brooklyn, New York industrial designer William Root is using 3D scanning, modeling, and printing to create customized prosthetic limbs. Currently, he is working on the prototype for what he calls the...
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Nanoshaping — Additive Manufacturing, But With Tiny Forces And Not Materials
It’s an entirely new method of “additive manufacturing” where the only thing added is 1 or 2 gigapascals of force. In case you’re wondering, one square inch of water results in 0.0361396333 pounds per...
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Ultrasounds dance the 'moonwalk' in new metamaterial
Silicone beads embedded in a water-based gel (photograph is ~2 cm across). Credit: © CRPP Metamaterials have extraordinary properties when it comes to diverting and controlling waves, especially sound...
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