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Jun 15, 2015

Ray Kurzweil: Humans will be hybrids

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, futurism, robotics/AI

Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, is a noted inventor and futurist who has some big ideas about the future of humans.

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Jun 15, 2015

This Huge Engineering Project May Be Our Best Chance At Colonizing Space

Posted by in category: space

Space colonization has reached an impasse, for reasons far more fundamental than a lack of money for the Space Shuttle program. There is simply no way humans can travel easily offworld without using massive amounts of rocket fuel to escape the gravity well — and that’s both expensive and environmentally unsustainable. So how will we get off this rock?

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Jun 15, 2015

Beyond cutting edge: Fusion energy’s front-runners

Posted by in category: energy

Fusion power sounds like an elusive, science-fiction dream, but billions of dollars in investment are pouring into it, according to OilPrice.com.

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Jun 15, 2015

What Happens When a Samurai Trains a Sword-Wielding Robot?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

For years, humanity has longed to create a sword-wielding robot…or at least it seems to be the case based on our chronicle of recent efforts.

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Jun 15, 2015

Welcome to Project Soli

Posted by in category: electronics

Project Soli is developing a new interaction sensor using radar technology. The sensor can track sub-millimeter motions at high speed and accuracy. It fits onto a chip, can be produced at scale and built into small devices and everyday objects.

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Jun 15, 2015

Implantable brain electronics is here

Posted by in categories: futurism, neuroscience

Mesh electronics being injected through sub-100 micrometer inner diameter glass needle into aqueous solution (credit: Lieber Research Group, Harvard University)

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Jun 15, 2015

Virtual-reality display allows stroke patients to spontaneously recover use of paralyzed arm

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, virtual reality

Virtual-reality Rehabilitation Gaming System (credit: Belén Rubio Ballester)

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Jun 15, 2015

Creating DNA-based nanostructures without water

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, futurism, nanotechnology

Three different DNA nanostructures assembled at room temperature in water-free glycholine (left) and in 75 percent glycholine-water mixture (center and right). The structures are (from left to right) a tall rectangle two-dimensional DNA origami, a triangle made of single-stranded tails, and a six-helix bundle three-dimensional DNA origami (credit: Isaac Gállego).

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Jun 15, 2015

South Korean Team Kaist wins DARPA Robotics Challenge | KurzweilAI

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

DRC-Hubo robot turns valve 360 degrees in DARPA Robotics Challenge Final (credit: DARPA)

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Jun 15, 2015

Ray Kurzweil’s Mind-Boggling Predictions for the Next 25 Years — Singularity HUB

Posted by in category: futurism

In my new book BOLD, one of the interviews that I’m most excited about is with my good friend Ray Kurzweil. Bill Gates calls Ray, “the best person I know…

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