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CRISPR Bacon: Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs
Here's something that may sound like a contradiction in terms: low-fat pigs. But that's exactly what Chinese scientists have created using new genetic engineering techniques. In a paper published...
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ISS Astronauts Operating Remote Robots Show Future of Planetary Exploration
In late August, an astronaut on board the International Space Station remotely operated a humanoid robot to inspect and repair a solar farm on Mars—or at least a simulated Mars environment, which in...
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Neuroeducation Will Lead to Big Breakthroughs in Learning
In recent decades we’ve seen the rise of an emerging interdisciplinary field that brings together neuroscientists and educators. As technologies like brain mapping and scanning continue to advance our...
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Building an ALS communication device with Arduino
The father of hacker Ricardo Andere de Mello’s good friend has ALS. His symptoms have become worse recently, causing the loss of much of his motor control. To help with the situation, de Mello decided...
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Ivy is a massive 240-step sequencer
Most musical sequencers use an array of buttons to control sounds played in 16 or perhaps 32 steps. As seen here, Moscow-based artist Dmitry Morozov (aka ::vtol::) created an installation called “Ivy”...
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The Internet of Things Needs to Be Intelligent, Not Just Connected
In an interview at Singularity University’s Global Summit in San Francisco, Andreas Gal explained how his company is applying artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things (IoT). Gal is the former...
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U.S. has record 6 million job openings, even as 6.8 million Americans are...
There were 6 million open jobs in the United States in April, a record high, according to data released by the Labor Department Tuesday. It comes at a time when 6.8 million unemployed Americans are...
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A biological fax machine could seed life through the galaxy
by Brian Alexander August 2, 2017 The first biological teleporter sits in a lab on the lower level of the San Diego building that houses Synthetic Genomics Inc. (SGI), looking something like a...
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An AI god will emerge by 2042 and write its own bible. Will you worship it?
In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the...
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Opinion
In the natural world, matter is neither created nor destroyed, but things are transformed. The same is true in the economic world. When new technology destroys, it leaves behind a layer of ash in which...
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This robot-run 3D printing farm is the future of light manufacturing
A 3D printing farm in Brooklyn needed to scale up to handle large production runs and better compete with injection molding. Until recently, that would have required investing in more 3D printers and...
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Stifled ambitions: a review of Google robotics
Despite recent attempts to tease the robotics projects incubating at its Google X skunkworks, industry observers say that Google has done more to stifle than advance innovation in robotics. On December...
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A radically open approach to developing infrastructure for Open Science
Hindawi’s CEO, Paul Peters, explains the problems inherent in proprietary solutions for Open Science infrastructure and presents a proposal for how things can be done differently. Should commercial...
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How we feel about robots that feel
Delcan & Company + Jenue by Louisa Hall October 24, 2017 Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions. When she’s turned...
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Scientists use HTC Vive controllers to operate this rescue robot like a puppet
Rescue robots could be incredibly useful tools in the future, diving into situations too dangerous for humans. But if you’ve seen current-generation robots try to tackle these sorts of scenarios,...
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Autonomous construction equipment is here
Autonomous construction equipment could be the intermediate step between automated factory equipment and self-driving cars. Although there is plenty of justified enthusiasm for self-driving cars, there...
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IBM scientists say radical new ‘in-memory’ computing architecture will speed...
IBM Research announced Tuesday (Oct. 24, 2017) that its scientists have developed the first “in-memory computing” or “computational memory” computer system architecture, which is expected to yield...
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ABB CEO Ulrich Spiesshofer will be talking industrial robotics at TechCrunch...
ABB Robotics isn’t exactly a household name, unlike other players in the industrial robotics space like Kawasaki, Mitsubishi and Epson, but that’s just because the company’s best known products drive...
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Kinect officially dead
Eurogamer.net The writing has been on the wall for some time, but now Microsoft has officially rubber-stamped it: Kinect is dead. Microsoft is no longer manufacturing the add-on camera, Co.Design...
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The Nootropics Community Is Using 23andMe to Match Smart Drugs to Their DNA
In what might be peak body hacking self-optimization fever, people have started combining nootropics, or "smart drugs," with genetic testing. Cue the Silicon Valley intro music. Nootropics are any...
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