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Magnetic microbot traps single cell
Origami boxes capture and release yeast cell using energy from a magnetic field A tiny robot that can capture a single cell has been made by scientists in the US. The microbot is made of metal-coated...
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Electrons flowing like liquid in graphene start a new wave of physics
A new understanding of the physics of conductive materials has been uncovered by scientists observing the unusual movement of electrons in graphene. Graphene is many times more conductive than copper...
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Can a robot pass a university entrance exam?
Noriko Arai 137,638 views • 13:37 • Subtitles in 1 languages Up next Details Discussion Details About the talk Meet Todai Robot, an AI project that performed in the top 20 percent of students on the...
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Mention the Invention Global Contest
Are you an innovator with a mind for engineering? Put your creativity to use for a good cause. Enter our Mention the Invention contest. Create something that uses the list of materials below, then post...
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~200Scholarship Providers $50 MillionIn Available Scholarships FIRST Alumni Alumni and Scholarship Resources Become a FIRST Scholarship Provider Using the FIRST Scholarship Program search bar. (Post...
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Artificial intelligence pioneer says we need to start over
President Trump took to Twitter to address the terrorist attack in London Friday morning: "Another attack in London by a loser terrorist.These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of...
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HARVEST is a work of critical engineering and computational climate art. It uses wind-energy to mine cryptocurrency, the earnings of which are used as a source of funding for climate-change research....
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These Robots Can Merge and Split Their Brains to Form New Modular Bots
We cover all kinds of modular robotics around here, and when we do, we’re almost always talking about one overall robotic system made up of many different modules, some number of which can be...
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Contributors: Nate Favorited Favorite 0 What’s the first thing that should scare you? There’s three. And the next? The label ‘46’. They’ve got so many in the field criminals need to number them just to...
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Machines Are Getting Smarter—Now They Should Explain Themselves
Neural networks’ powers of prediction have fueled the recent AI boom, but it can be hard to explain how they reach their decisions. A new technique aimed at uncovering the inner workings of language...
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Artificial Intelligence
In the latest installment of Singularity University’s web series, Future of Everything With Jason Silva, Silva takes a look at artificial intelligence. “AI is perhaps the granddaddy of all exponential...
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Philly's BioBots develops 3D printer to make human tissue
In the summer of 2014, while many of his fellow Penn students were spending their days interning at big tech companies and investment banks, computational biology major Danny Cabrera was busy trying to...
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How Bayer and Ginkgo Teamed Up in a $100M Synthetic Biology Bet
Xconomy Boston — Nitrogen is essential for plant growth and photosynthesis, but plants can’t pull it directly from air. They rely on bacteria on their roots to convert the gas into a usable form. Many...
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Today’s anti-cancer tools are ever better wielded
They are sharper, too MS MILLEY’S primary tumour was in the middle lobe of her right lung, which surgeons removed entirely. Surgery is an ancient form of cancer treatment and still a common one....
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Neato Robotics scooped up by Vorwerk Group
Robot vacuum company Neato has just been bought by the Vorwerk Group, a German manufacturer of household products, the companies announced today. Neato will operate within the Vorwerk as a "wholly...
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IBM and MIT to pursue joint research in artificial intelligence, establish...
IBM and MIT today announced that IBM plans to make a 10-year, $240 million investment to create the MIT–IBM Watson AI Lab in partnership with MIT. The lab will carry out fundamental artificial...
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PIDDYBOT
The PIDDYBOT is a small Open Source balancing robot with the aim of teaching PID controls using a "hands on" concept. Anyone can play with the PIDDYBOT and start to develop an understanding of what the...
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Editor’s Highlight: Development of Novel Neural Embryonic Stem Cell Tests for...
Volume 159 Issue 1 < Previous Next > Toxicological Sciences, Volume 159, Issue 1, 1 September 2017, Pages 238–250, https://doi.org/10.1093/toxsci/kfx130 There is a great demand for appropriate...
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Researchers unite in quest for ‘standard model’ of the brain
Leading neuroscientists are joining forces to study the brain — in much the same way that physicists team up in mega-projects to hunt for new particles. The International Brain Lab (IBL), launched on...
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Online Dating Pioneer: Algorithmic Insights Can Help Us Become Better People
In an interview at Singularity University’s Global Summit in San Francisco, J. Galen Buckwalter said the quantitative study of personality is finding new tech applications. Buckwalter developed the...
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