Robotics
How These Shapeshifting “Roboats” Are Going To Change Watercourses
MIT’s fleet of robotic boats has been updated with new capabilities to “shapeshift,” by autonomously disconnecting and reassembling into a variety of configurations, to form floating structures in Amsterdam’s many canals. The autonomous boats — rectangular hulls equipped with sensors, thrusters, microcontrollers, GPS modules, cameras, and other hardware — are being developed as part of the …
MIT Researchers Develops A Slimy Worm Robot For Less Invasive Surgeries
MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide through narrow, winding pathways, such as the labrynthine vasculature of the brain. In the future, this robotic thread may be paired with existing endovascular technologies, enabling doctors to remotely guide the robot through a patient’s brain vessels to quickly treat blockages and …
Should Robots Be Built To Feel Pain?
What is the role of pain in our lives? Pain, we can all agree, is unpleasant, both physically and emotionally. Pain acts as an alarm when faced with danger. Pain can be excruciating, tragic, the forerunner of death. In short, when we feel pain, we feel more alive than ever. Now that robots play an …
The Future Of Robotics Is Soft And Squishy
Whenever we think of robots, we think of hunks of metal. Robots definitely changed the way we do things in fields such as manufacturing and even healthcare. However, recent developments in robotics show that soft, rubbery robots will let us take the next big leap. Why go soft? While metallic robots are reliable in doing …
Why Upgrading Your Brain Could Make You Less Human
Within the lifetimes of most children alive today, bioenhancement is likely to become a basic feature of human society. Personalised pharmaceuticals will enable us to modify our bodies and minds in powerful and precise ways, with far fewer side-effects than modern drugs. New brain-machine interfaces will improve our memory and cognition, extend our senses, and …
Science Has Outgrown The Human Mind And Its Limited Capacities
The duty of man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads and … attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into …
AI Is Different Because It Lets Machines Weld The Emotional With The Physical
The human race has long designed and used tools to help us solve problems, from flint axes to space shuttles. They affect our lives and shape society in expected and sometimes unexpected ways. We may understand how these tools work – after all, we built them – but sometimes it’s the use they’re put to …
Brain-Machine Interfaces Are Getting Better And Better – And Neuralink’s New Brain Implant Pushes The Pace
Elon Musk grabbed a lot of attention with his July 16 announcement that his company Neuralink plans to implant electrodes into the brains of people with paralysis by next year. Their first goal is to create assistive technology to help people who can’t move or are unable to communicate. If you haven’t been paying attention, …
Google Cloud Next 2019 | Democratizing AI For Industrial Applications
Google Cloud Next 2019 | Energy Sessions Google Cloud Next 2019 | Democratizing AI For Industrial Applications AI democratization is a well understood term that is often associated with enabling learning and adoption of AI. In the industrial world, BHGE has been at the forefront of democratizing AI. In contrast to commercial solutions that focus …
Google Cloud Next 2019 | Integrating Smart Devices With The Google Assistant And Google Cloud IoT
Google Cloud Next 2019 | Energy Sessions Google Cloud Next 2019 | Integrating Smart Devices With The Google Assistant And Google Cloud IoT Introduce how developers can integrate their smart devices with the Google Assistant. This session shows how to build a webbook for the HomeGraph to sync, query, and execute commands on IoT devices …