Three books examine our complex and often fraught relationship with robots, AI, and automation.
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Clone Robotics made the Protoclone which is a faceless, anatomically accurate, synthetic human with over 200 degrees of freedom, over 1,000 Myofibers, and over 200 sensors.
Furthermore, healthcare and life sciences are both booming sectors with regards to artificial intelligence applications. Many other companies are also working at the intersection of technology and biology, given the numerous challenges that are present in the fields of drug discovery and protein folding. For example, Deepmind and Isomorphic Labs have made immense progress with AlphaFold, another leading foundation model ecosystem to better understand protein folding. Meta created something similar with its ESM Metagenomic Atlas. Given the increasing rates of catastrophic disease and the rapidly evolving nature of pathogens, scientists in these sectors hope to use the best of the advancements in AI to help solve some of biology’s toughest challenges.
Indeed, the immense progress that has been made thus far has paved the way for monumental scientific inventions and developments to emerge in the years ahead. Undoubtedly, this work is just getting started.
A biomaterial that can mimic certain behaviors within biological tissues could advance regenerative medicine, disease modeling, soft robotics and more, according to researche(rs at Penn State.
Materials created up to this point to mimic tissues and extracellular matrices (ECMs) — the body’s biological scaffolding of proteins and molecules that surrounds and supports tissues and cells — have all had limitations that hamper their practical applications, according to the team. To overcome some of those limitations, the researchers developed a bio-based, “living” material that encompasses self-healing properties and mimics the biological response of ECMs to mechanical stress.
They published their results in Materials Horizons, where the research was also featured on the cover of the journal.
Super Humanity — This documentary examines breakthroughs in neuroscience and technology. Imagine a future where the human brain and artificial intelligence connect.
Super Humanity (2019)
Director: Ruth Chao.
Writers: Ruth Chao, Paula Cons, Alphonse de la Puente.
Genre: Documentary, Sci-Fi.
Country: Portugal, Spain.
Language: English.
Release Date: December 27, 2019 (Spain)
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Swimming robots are essential for mapping pollution, studying aquatic ecosystems, and monitoring water quality in sensitive areas such as coral reefs and lake shores. However, many existing models rely on noisy propellers that can disturb or even harm wildlife. Additionally, navigating these environments is challenging due to natural obstacles like plants, animals, and debris.
To address these issues, researchers from the Soft Transducers Lab and the Unsteady Flow Diagnostics Laboratory at EPFL’s School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, have developed a compact, highly maneuverable swimming robot. Smaller than a credit card and weighing just six grams, this agile robot can navigate tight spaces and carry payloads significantly heavier than itself. Its design makes it particularly suited for confined environments such as rice fields or for inspecting waterborne machinery. The study has been published in Science Robotics.
“In 2020, our team demonstrated autonomous insect-scale crawling robots, but making untethered ultra-thin robots for aquatic environments is a whole new challenge,” says EPFL Soft Transducers Lab head Herbert Shea. “We had to start from scratch, developing more powerful soft actuators, new undulating locomotion strategies, and compact high-voltage electronics”
A new AI-driven tool allows scientists to analyze vast amounts of LIGO
LIGO, or the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to develop gravitational-wave observations as an astronomical tool. There are two LIGO observatories in the United States—one in Hanford, Washington, and the other in Livingston, Louisiana. These observatories use laser interferometry to measure the minute ripples in spacetime caused by passing gravitational waves from cosmic events, such as the collisions of black holes or neutron stars.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Many people have experienced frustration when dealing with artificial intelligence chatbots for customer support or technical assistance. New research from the University of Kansas has found when dealing with embarrassing issues, people prefer the anonymity and nonjudgmental nature of AI chatbots. However, when angry, they still preferred dealing with a fellow human.
The COVID-19 pandemic both angered and embarrassed people around the world as they dealt with new and frequently changing information and misinformation on vaccines, social distancing and related topics. KU researchers conducted a lab-based experimental study in which they gauged people’s attitudes about vaccines, showed them content that could arouse anger or embarrassment and randomly assigned them AI or human assistance to further gauge their knowledge and attitudes about vaccines.
Vaibhav Diwanji, assistant professor of journalism and mass communications at KU and lead author of the study, researches new and emerging technologies’ influence on consumers.
The dream of having robots do household chores inched a little closer to reality last week.
Figure, an OpenAI-backed robotics artificial intelligence (AI) startup, showed off humanoid robots that can understand voice commands and can grab objects they had never seen before.
In a Figure video, a guy holding a bag of groceries starts unloading eggs, apple, ketchup, cheese, cookies and other items on a counter.