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Robotic hand can crush beer cans and hold eggs without breaking them
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A highly dexterous, human-like robotic hand with fingertip touch sensors can delicately hold eggs, use tweezers to pick up computer chips and crush drink cans. The hand could eventually be used as a prosthetic or in robots that use artificial intelligence to manipulate objects.
Weighing 1.1 kilograms, the hand is 22 centimetres long and made of steel and aluminium. Each finger is driven by three small motors that fit within the palm and move metal parts that act like tendons around a total of 20 joints. This enables the digits to tilt sideways, to flex back and forth and to fold, giving the hand a range of movements comparable to that of a human hand.
Uikyum Kim at Ajou University in South Korea and his colleagues, who built the hand, say it can hold an egg without cracking it, pour drinks and crush aluminium cans.
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Harnessing the power of mitochondria to beat Parkinsonâs
Boston-based biotech Vincere Biosciences is on a mission to combat neurodegenerative disease by improving the quality of the mitochondria in our cells. The company was spun out from AI drug discovery company NeuroInitiative in 2018 after its platform identified that modulation of certain enzymes to repair mitochondrial health âmay slow or stop the progression of Parkinsonâs disease and other age-related disorders.â
In addition to seed funding, Vincere has received grants from the National Institutes of Health and Michael J Fox Foundation, and the company is now gearing up for a Series A funding round in early 2022.
Longevity. Technology: Mitochondriaâs role in longevity is a hot topic. Often referred to as the âpowerhouse of the cellâ, these miniature organs within our cells play a key role in providing the energy needed for growth, repair and rejuvenation. As we age, our mitochondria begin to decline in function, and this decline is linked to a range of age-related diseases. We caught up with Vincereâs co-founder and CEO Dr Spring Behrouz to find out how her company aims to tap into the potential of these small but mighty biological players.
What Does It Mean for AI to Understand?
Itâs simple enough for AI to seem to comprehend data, but devising a true test of a machineâs knowledge has proved difficult.
Neural networks can hide malware, and scientists are worried
This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence.
With their millions and billions of numerical parameters, deep learning models can do many things: detect objects in photos, recognize speech, generate textâand hide malware. Neural networks can embed malicious payloads without triggering anti-malware software, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Illinois have found.
Their malware-hiding technique, EvilModel, sheds light on the security concerns of deep learning, which has become a hot topic of discussion in machine learning and cybersecurity conferences. As deep learning becomes ingrained in applications we use every day, the security community needs to think about new ways to protect users against their emerging threats.
NASA Begins Testing Robotics for Daring Space Mission To Bring First Samples Back From Mars
Engineers are developing the crucial hardware needed for a series of daring space missions that will be carried out in the coming decade.
Testing has already begun on what would be the most sophisticated endeavor ever attempted at the Red Planet: bringing rock and sediment samples from Mars.
Mars is the second smallest planet in our solar system and the fourth planet from the sun. Iron oxide is prevalent in Marsâ surface resulting in its reddish color and its nickname âThe Red Planet.â Marsâ name comes from the Roman god of war.
Uber Eats and Motional are working on driverless food delivery for 2022
AI doesnât just want to eat your lunch â sometimes it wants to deliver it, too.
Driverless tech provider Motional and Uber Eats plan to add a dash of autonomy to food delivery next year in Santa Monica, serving up meal kits from select restaurants. The news was first reported by AiThority.
The plan is for food deliveries to come via Motionalâs all-electric Hyundai IONIQ 5-based robotaxis. Motional said this will be the first time its vehicles are used to deliver food. Itâs not clear whether humans or robots will bring the meal kits to customersâ doorsteps.
Roche, Genentech, Recursion Launch Up-to-$12B AI Drug Discovery Effort
Roche and its Genentech subsidiary have committed up to $12 billion to Recursion in return for using its Recursion Operating System (OS) to advance therapies in 40 programs that include âkey areasâ of neuroscience and an undisclosed oncology indication.
Recursion OS applies machine learning and high-content screening methods in what the companies said would be a âtransformationalâ model for tech-enabled target and drug discovery.
The integrated, multi-faceted OS is designed to generate, analyze and glean insights from large-scale proprietary biological and chemical datasetsâin this case, extensive single-cell perturbation screening data from Roche and Genentechâby integrating wet-lab and dry-lab biology at scale to phenomically capture chemical and genetic alterations in neuroscience-related cell types and select cancer cell lines.