Made In Space and NanoRacks Take First Steps Towards On-Orbit Satellite...
Made In Space, the space manufacturing company, and NanoRacks, the premier provider of commercial low-Earth orbit services, are partnering to provide a transformative new service for CubeSat...
View Article3D-printed brain tissue
Researchers in Australia have developed a new way of printing 3D structures that closely resemble layered brain tissue In the latest effort to build an artificial laboratory model of the brain,...
View ArticleScientists make a robot that can have babies
Everyone who thinks robots are going to take over the world might be getting a lot more frightened: Scientists have created a machine that's able to have babies. Sort of. In an experiment designed to...
View ArticleActivity of entire central nervous system captured on film for first time
The neural activity of an entire central nervous system has been captured in a fairly complex animal for the first time. The video footage shows neurons firing in the nervous system of a fruit fly...
View ArticleThe 3D Printed OctaWorm Robot Can Go Where No Other Robot Can
Imagine a collapsed building that has been reduced to a pile of tangled rubble, steel beams and debris. Now try to imagine how many living people may be trapped under the thousands of tons of that...
View ArticleRobot Weapons: What’s the Harm?
LAST month over a thousand scientists and tech-world luminaries, including Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak, released an open letter calling for a global ban on offensive “autonomous”...
View ArticleNASA testing robot with sticky gecko feet (VIDEO)
NASA, the US space agency, has equipped a climbing robot with sticky feet – a technology modeled on geckos and spiders. The robots could do repair work on spaceships, and be used back on Earth. NASA’s...
View ArticleGoogle's Atlas robot takes a forest hike
Google's Boston Dynamics division has released footage of its Atlas humanoid robot taking a walk in a forest. The 6ft 2in (1.9m) machine required a power tether to keep it charged, but was able to keep...
View ArticleScientists discover atomic-resolution details of brain signaling
Scientists have revealed never-before-seen details of how our brain sends rapid-fire messages between its cells. They mapped the 3-D atomic structure of a two-part protein complex that controls the...
View ArticleA brain-computer interface for controlling an exoskeleton
Scientists working at Korea University, Korea, and TU Berlin, Germany have developed a brain-computer control interface for a lower limb exoskeleton by decoding specific signals from within the user's...
View ArticleScientists stimulate mouse brains with wireless 'charger'
For reasons we'll soon explain, turning on a light inside a mouse's head can help scientistsmap brain function. It's easy to implant an LED in a mouse's brain, but how to power it? Until now, the mice...
View ArticleRussian scientists create artificial brain that can educate itself
In a step closer to developing artificial intellect, Russian scientists have created a physical model of a brain that is able to educate itself. An international team of scientists at a laboratory in...
View ArticleFirst almost fully-formed human brain grown in lab, researchers claim
An almost fully-formed human brain has been grown in a lab for the first time, claim scientists from Ohio State University. The team behind the feat hope the brain could transform our understanding of...
View ArticleScientists discover electrical control of cancer cell growth
The molecular switches regulating human cell growth do a great job of replacing cells that die during the course of a lifetime. But when they misfire, life-threatening cancers can occur. Research led...
View ArticleWatching MIT's Glass 3D Printer Is Absolutely Mesmerizing
MIT’s Mediated Matter Group made a video showing off their first of its kind optically transparent glass printing process. It will soothe your soul. GLASS from Mediated Matter Group on Vimeo. Called...
View ArticleTeam Designs Robots to Build Things in Messy, Unpredictable Situations
Researchers at Harvard University and SUNY at Buffalo are designing robots to function outside of ideal, predictable environments such as warehouses or factories and instead work in places where there...
View ArticleScientists unveil world’s first 3D printer that can print 10 materials at once
As scientists figure out how to use awesome new materials in 3D printers, one big problem remains: the vast majority of 3D printers only work with one kind of source material (for example, plastic)...
View ArticleCheap 3D-printed bionic hand wins James Dyson Award, could bring robotic...
A robotics graduate has created new, far cheaper robotic hands — winning the UK James Dyson Award for an invention that uses 3D printing to transform the bionics industry. The devices usually cost as...
View ArticleJosh Cathcar became first Brit to be fitted with new child-sized bionic hand
A nine-year-old who was bullied for having only one hand has become the first boy in the UK to be fitted with a new child-sized bionic hand. Josh Cathcart, from Dalgety Bay in Fife, was tormented by...
View ArticleTiny, 3D-Printed Fish to Swim in Blood Stream, Deliver Drugs
New 3D-printed fish-shaped microbots — called microfish — could one day transport drugs to specific places in the human body and be able to sense and remove toxins. These microfish, smaller than the...
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