Oct 7, 2015
Australia: Doctors reattach child’s head to spine after car crash [Video]
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, transportation
Surgeons at Brisbane hospital managed to reattached the head of 16-month-old Jaxon Taylor.
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Oct 7, 2015
#18 Avatar Technology Digest / Paralyzed Patients Control Comp…
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: 3D printing, bioengineering, biotech/medical, computing, materials, robotics/AI
1. A heart of foam.
2. Artificial arteries.
3. Brain implants.
4. Robotic hand that can recognize objects by Feel.
5. Upside-Down Rover to explore Europa.
Welcome to #18 Avatar Technology Digest. Again, get ready for exciting news on Technology, Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence. Thank you for watching us. You are welcome to Subscribe, follow us in social media, leave your comments and join the conversation. And here are the top stories of the last week.
1) A heart of foam could replace your own. Existing artificial hearts have multiple moving parts, which increases the chance of failure, but this new device is just a single piece of material. Researchers inspired by soft robots have built a pumping artificial heart that could one day replace the real deal.
The team of Bioengineers at Cornell University build their robots out of a solid, plastic foam, which naturally has an interconnected network of tubes to let air flow – just as our muscles are permeated by blood vessels. A solid coating of plastic seals everything inside like a skin.
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Oct 7, 2015
Telocyte: Finally Dr Michael Fossel’s company Telocyte goes live!
Posted by Steve Hill in category: life extension
He is working with Dr Maria Blasco of the CNIO in Madrid to bring telomerase therapy to the USA. Their approach is similar to Bioviva where targeting the microglial cells with telomerase inducing gene therapy should in theory reverse the condition. Best of luck to Telocyte!
Telocyte | HomePage.
Oct 7, 2015
Organic ‘computers’ made of DNA could process data inside our bodies
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, computing
A DNA-powered PC may not be on the horizon, but DNA can still compute even if it can’t build a computer.
Oct 7, 2015
Can quantum physics explain irrational decisions? — By Leslie D’Monte | Livemint
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in category: quantum physics
Oct 7, 2015
Deep Learning Robot Takes 10 Days to Teach Itself to Grasp
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Leave a human baby with some toys and it’ll quickly learn to pick them up. Now a robot with deep learning capabilities has done the same thing.
Oct 6, 2015
Honda Using Experimental New ASIMO for Disaster Response Research
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
Oct 6, 2015
Elon Musk has the perfect argument for raising NASA’s budget
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in categories: Elon Musk, existential risks, space
“Billionaire Elon Musk has a really compelling reason to ramp up NASA’s budget: We need to become a multi-planet species to ensure the survival of the human race, and we need NASA’s help to do it.”
Someone tell Congress.
Oct 6, 2015
AI machine achieves IQ test score of young child
Posted by Phillipe Bojorquez in categories: computing, robotics/AI
Some people might find it enough reason to worry; others, enough reason to be upbeat about what we can achieve in computer science; all await the next chapters in artificial intelligence to see what more a machine can do to mimic human intelligence. We already saw what machines can do in arithmetic, chess and pattern recognition.
MIT Technology Review poses the bigger question: to what extent do these capabilities add up to the equivalent of human intelligence? Shedding some light on AI and humans, a team went ahead to subject an AI system to a standard IQ test given to humans.
Their paper describing their findings has been posted on arXiv. The team is from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an AI research group in Hungary. The AI system which they used is ConceptNet, an open-source project run by the MIT Common Sense Computing Initiative.
