Are You Ready for a Robot Colleague?
Those who work in professions from warehouse staff to hotel concierges may soon count a robot among their colleagues. While Amazon has pioneered the use of robots in its fulfillment centers, its robots...
View ArticleRealistic cockroach robot developed by Russian university
Robots come in all shapes and sizes these days, and in the case of one project in Russia, the shape and size is that of a cockroach. Researchers at the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University in...
View ArticleDisney researchers use air-filled modules to grasp, manipulate delicate objects
Much like Baymax, the robot star of the animated feature "Big Hero 6," a soft robot skin developed by Disney Research uses air-filled cavities to cushion collisions and to provide the pressure feedback...
View Article#17 AVATAR TECHNOLOGY DIGEST / Mind Reading' is Possible / What’s the future...
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View ArticleDmitry Itskov: www.Immortal.me - Want to be immortal? Act!
Fellow Immortalists! Many of the daily letters that the 2045 Initiative and I receive ask the question: will only the very rich be able to afford an avatar in the future, or will they be relatively...
View ArticleSoft robotic hand can hold on as CSAIL demonstrates
Soft robots are in focus at MIT. They are built from non-traditional materials like paper and synthetic fiber. Brooks Hays reported on their work for UPI on Wednesday. Soft robots matter. If we are to...
View ArticleScientists to bypass brain damage by re-encoding memories
Researchers at USC and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have developed a brain prosthesis that is designed to help individuals suffering from memory loss. The prosthesis, which includes a small array...
View ArticleThe theory of parallel universes is not just maths – it is science that can...
The existence of parallel universes may seem like something cooked up by science fiction writers, with little relevance to modern theoretical physics. But the idea that we live in a “multiverse” made...
View ArticleTattoo-like electronic health patches are now easy to make
However much you like the idea of a wearable electronic patch monitoring (or improving) your health, it's not all that practical. Making just one patch using current tech can take days, and you'd...
View ArticleSurgically implanted system translates thoughts into text at a rate of six...
Typing six words a minute may not sound like a lot, but for those people who are paralyzed and cannot type using conventional measures, it’s an accomplishment worth noting. This previously unthinkable...
View Article#18 Avatar Technology Digest / Paralyzed Patients Control Computers With...
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View ArticleSelf-assembling material that grows and changes shape could lead to...
Researchers at QMUL have developed a way of assembling organic molecules into complex tubular tissue-like structures without the use of moulds or techniques like 3D printing. The study, which will...
View ArticleAn accessible approach to making a mini-brain
If you need a working miniature brain -- say for drug testing, to test neural tissue transplants, or to experiment with how stem cells work -- a new paper describes how to build one with what the Brown...
View ArticleScientists control rats' senses of familiarity, novelty
With pulses of light in the right part of the brain at the right frequencies, Brown University scientists induced rats to behave as if things they'd seen before were novel and things they'd never seen...
View ArticleDeep Learning Robot Takes 10 Days to Teach Itself to Grasp
Leave a human baby with some toys and it’ll quickly learn to pick them up. Now a robot with deep learning capabilities has done the same thing. One of the goals of general purpose robots is to interact...
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DARPA's fascinating self-healing body initiative – ElectRx
DARPA is examining health on a nano scale through its electrical prescriptions (ElectRx) program. The human body obviously has an amazing capacity to correct problems in its own system. There’s a huge...
View ArticleIntelligent machines: Will we accept robot revolution?
Would you share your home with a robot or work side by side with one? People are starting to do both, which has put the relationship we have with them under the spotlight and exposed both our love and...
View ArticleISRAELI XPRIZE TEAM BECOMES FIRST TO BOOK A TICKET TO THE MOON
A privately funded spacecraft is officially scheduled to launch to the moon in late 2017. The Google Lunar Xprize competition announced this morning that a team from Israel is the first to verify a...
View ArticleWorld's first robot FARM to open in 2017: Firm plans to replace humans with...
A Japanese firm plans to grow more than 10 million heads of lettuce a year by replacing its human farmers with robots in 2017. The machines will automate every step of the planting process, from...
View ArticleOpen Bionics adds superhero appeal to prostheses for kids
Historically, those born without a hand or have one amputated can choose prosthetic devices that focus on realism and, for a steeper price, fine motor control. Open Bionics has unveiled several new...
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