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Oct 2, 2022
This machete is controlled by a plant yielding a robot arm
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
What does this mean for the field of robotics?
Some inventions are so strange they simply cannot help but catch the eye. Such is the case with David Bowen’s plant machete, first reported by designboom.
Robotics have come a long way as this project of an arm being controlled by the electric noises produced by a plant. Could this application be scaled up to allow for brain-controlled movement?
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Oct 2, 2022
Humanity’s future beyond Earth: Multiplanetary or Islands in Space?
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: habitats, space
Is the future of humanity in space or on multiple planets?
You can’t build massive space habitats without harvesting resources from nearby asteroids. The resources of the Moon and asteroids are needed to create their proposed habitats.
The prospects for colonization of other planetary surfaces are unappealing.
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Oct 2, 2022
No, Bruce Willis did not sell his face to deepfake firm Deepcake
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
He did do a deepfake commercial last year.
A spokesperson for Bruce Willis has come forward and told the BBC
In addition, a representative of Deepcake added that currently, only Willis had the rights to his face.
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Oct 2, 2022
Man sells 3D-printed firearms to a buyback program for $21,000
Posted by Gemechu Taye in category: futurism
The man printed 110 firearms.
An upstate New York man told New York’s WKTV.
“I 3D-printed a bunch of lower receivers and frames for different kinds of firearms,” Kem told WKTV. “And he sees the tote and says, ‘how many firearms do you have?’ And I said, ‘110.’”
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Oct 2, 2022
This superyacht design features a 100-year-old technology to sail sustainably
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: solar power, sustainability
The tech is called Flettner Rotors.
A multidisciplinary design company called 3deluxe has revealed a new low carbon-emission superyacht concept called FY.01. The company made the superyacht design public on Friday, and it is sure to wow thanks to its eco-credentials, aesthetics, and usage of cutting-edge technology.
Flettner Rotors were developed over 100 years ago and use rotating vertical pipes to transform wind energy into a highly efficient transversal force. The technology relies on an effect referred to as the Magnus force and it has seen a powerful revival over the years due to the availability of new materials that make it more efficient and viable.
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Oct 2, 2022
Microscopic Robots in the Lungs Treat Bacterial Pneumonia in Mice
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
The last decade has brought a lot of attention to the use of microscopic robots (microrobots or nanorobots) for biomedical applications. Now, nanoengineers have developed microrobots that can swim around in the lungs and deliver medication to be used to treat bacterial pneumonia. A new study shows that the microrobots safely eliminated pneumonia-causing bacteria in the lungs of mice and resulted in 100% survival. By contrast, untreated mice all died within three days after infection.
The results are published Nature Materials in the paper, “Nanoparticle-modified microrobots for in vivo antibiotic delivery to treat acute bacterial pneumonia.”
The microrobots are made using click chemistry to attach antibiotic-loaded neutrophil membrane-coated polymeric nanoparticles to natural microalgae. The hybrid microrobots could be used for the active delivery of antibiotics in the lungs in vivo.
Oct 2, 2022
Germany builds new gas terminals to succeed Russian pipelines
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: habitats
Germany’s most strategically important building site is at the end of a windswept pier on the North Sea coast, where workers are assembling the country’s first terminal for the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Starting this winter, the rig, close to the port of Wilhelmshaven, will be able to supply the equivalent of 20 percent of the gas that was until recently imported from Russia.
Since its invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has throttled gas supplies to Germany, while the Nord Stream pipelines which carried huge volumes under the Baltic Sea to Europe were damaged last week in what a Danish-Swedish report called “a deliberate act.”
Oct 2, 2022
Well, That’s One Way to Save a Space Telescope From Falling Back to Earth
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: space travel
New scientific research suggests Mars astronauts would get a horrifying does of radiation.
How serious is it?