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A system that lets robots sense the difference between hot and cold has been developed.

Researchers at MIT’s Center for Extreme Bionics are engaged in a $100 million, five-year project with a goal to end disability worldwide.

MIT’s Center for Extreme Bionics it trying to eliminate human disabilities and push us beyond the limits of our own bodies.

A new article recently out discussing issues of #transhumanism:

Hello reader, are you trans? Transhuman, that is.

Probably not, but one day you might be – or, failing that, your kids or grandkids. In what is very much a ‘guest’ piece for the American Conservative, Zoltan Istvan – the Libertarian candidate for Governor of California – explains his transhumanist vision:

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From robotic replacement limbs to bionic eyes, the next step in human evolution might involve augmenting our bodies with a variety of new technology.

The ‘Iron Man’ exoskeleton that can let disabled children walk again.

• Tréxō Robotics has created and exoskeleton that can help immobile kids walk
• It attached to walkers and is battery-powered to help them propel themselves
• It can help kids with Cerebral Palsy, Paraplegia, stroke, spine and brain injuries

By Sage Lazzaro For Dailymail.com

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Article out by Ron Bailey at Reason Magazine that discusses #transhumanism and #libertarianism:

Kai Weiss, a researcher at the Austrian Economics Center and Hayek Institute in Vienna, Austria, swiftly denounced the piece. “Transhumanism should be rejected by libertarians as an abomination of human evolution,” he wrote.

Clearly there is some disagreement.

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