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Women of NASA
Ladies rock outer space! Women have played critical roles throughout the history of the U.S. space program, a.k.a. NASA or the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Yet in many cases, their...
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The Fosters 4x05 Sneak Peek Season 4 Episode 5 Sneak Peek ( HD )
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View ArticleWhy I’m Suing the US Government
Today I filed a lawsuit against the US government, challenging Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Section 1201 means that you can be sued or prosecuted for accessing, speaking about,...
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It's Powered by Living Heart Cells
0 Researchers at Harvard University have created a biohybrid stingray. No larger than the average coin, the ray contains both biological and artificial parts—rat heart cells grown on a silicon mold...
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New Artificial Muscles Could Be The Holy Grail Of Soft Robotics
Soft robots are able to do a number of different things but they move slowly. Actuators, the artificial muscles for soft robots, usually use pneumatics or hydraulics. These are hard to store and don’t...
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Silicon Nanoparticles Provide Biocompatible Solution to Cancer Detection and...
When it comes to cancer treatment and nanoparticles, the preference has been to use gold nanoparticles. Silicon nanoparticles, on the other hand, have been limited mainly to the realm of electronics...
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Ray Kurzweil Outlines the Coming Biomedical Revolution [Video]
Will we live longer lives in the future? According to Ray Kurzweil, it's only a matter of time until technology begins successfully tackling age-related disease—and life expectancy grows longer and...
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Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing
Let me start by saying I'm no Russia hawk. I have long been skeptical of US efforts to extend security guarantees to countries within what the Russians consider their 'near abroad' or extend such...
View ArticleHistory tells us what will happen next with Brexit & Trump
It seems we’re entering another of those stupid seasons humans impose on themselves at fairly regular intervals. My background is archaeology, so also history and anthropology. It leads me to look at...
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The legacy of TV's Robot Wars
Robot Wars - the metal-crunching hit television series of the 90s - returns to the BBC on Sunday, following a 13-year break. Back on the judging panel is Professor Noel Sharkey, a robotics expert who...
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Whole-brain imaging method identifies common brain disorders
How many of the estimated 100 trillion synapses in your brain are actually functioning? It’s an important question for diagnosis and treatment of people with common brain disorders, such as epilepsy,...
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An 18-year-old inventor’s new drone wants to be like the Swiss Army Knife of...
Most consumer drones on the market right now are really good at being flying cameras. Some can follow you around on their own, and some can avoid obstacles pretty well. But without a lot of...
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VertiGo Robot Drives Up Walls
This collaboration between ETH and the Disney empire’s research arm is a ultra-light robot that can roll across horizontal surfaces and also transition and climb walls. The robot has four wheels with...
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‘Game of Genomes’ Season 3: How I unearthed my ancestors through my DNA
elving into my genome, I learned a lot about how genetic variants influence my health, putting me at risk of some disorders and protecting me from others. But I also wanted to search inside my DNA for...
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Wikileaks Put Women in Turkey in Danger, for No Reason
Just days after a bloody coup attempt shook Turkey, Wikileaks dumped some 300,000 emails they chose to call "Erdogan emails." In response, Turkey's internet governance body swiftly blocked access to...
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AUTOMATICA 2016: digitalization and collaborative robotics
AUTOMATICA 2016, held in June in Munich at the massive Messe tradefair facility, is a gigantic show focused on automation, mechatronics, robotics and emerging technologies as they relate to the...
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90 percent of unwavering Sanders supporters plan to vote for Clinton in November
Among the weird scenes from the first day of the Democratic convention in Philadelphia is this one. A truck sponsored by the conspiracy-theory site Infowars toting a billboard reading "Hillary for...
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Volkswagen's Internet-Connected RC Track Will Change Everything You Thought...
Were you aware that, apparently, there’s a rivalry inside Volkswagen between the GTI and GLI performance teams? I didn’t realize that. And, it seems that instead of having a nice, civilized hammer...
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Single-Actuator Wave Robot Zips Around with High Speed Wiggles
Every time we come back from a robotics conference thinking, "okay, that's it, people are out of ideas, there are no more unique ways of getting robots to move," someone comes along and proves us wrong...
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Unimate
Revolutionizing manufacturing the world over, the Unimate was the very first industrial robot. Conceived from a design for a mechanical arm patented in 1954 (granted in 1961) by American inventor...
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