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Dec 18, 2021

Skin-Like Stretchy Photodiodes Could Power Artificial Eyes, Robot Vision, and More

Posted by in categories: health, robotics/AI, wearables

Replacing rigid semiconductors with skin-like equivalents could be a real breakthrough for everything from health and wearables to robotics.

Dec 18, 2021

World’s Next Gen Cosmic Observatory: Webb Space Telescope and Ariane 5 — Preparing for Launch [Video]

Posted by in categories: government, space

The world’s next generation cosmic observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope 0, is due for launch on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.

Webb is a joint project between NASA

Established in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). It is responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. It’s vision is “To discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity.”

Dec 18, 2021

N of 1 Extend Lifespan Experiment: Evaluating Progress | Dr Lustgarten Interview Series 3 Ep 2

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, life extension, media & arts

Part 2


In this video Dr. Lustgarten goes into more detail on what he tracks and how he does the analysis of the results. He emphasizes the importance of running your own tests, to not only look at one biomarker but to then combine that marker with other biomarkers, looking for what is optimal for you.

Continue reading “N of 1 Extend Lifespan Experiment: Evaluating Progress | Dr Lustgarten Interview Series 3 Ep 2” »

Dec 18, 2021

Hyundai’s MobED small mobility platform can carry virtually anything

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The platform is designed for applications that require stability and high maneuverability.

Dec 18, 2021

This Robot Learned to Solve a Maze Using Mammal-Like ‘Brain’ Circuits For Memory

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Rather than engineering robotic solutions from scratch, some of our most impressive advances have come from copying what nature has already come up with.

New research shows how we can extend that approach to robot ‘minds’, in this case by getting a robot to learn the best route out of a maze all by itself – even down to keeping a sort-of memory of particular turns.

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Dec 18, 2021

Medicine’s first autonomous AI could prevent blindness due to diabetes — if it can reach those most in need

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

“How do we use these new innovative technologies to really mitigate disparities in diabetes outcomes?” asked Risa Wolf, a pediatric endocrinologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dec 18, 2021

Forever Healthy and Buck Institute announce partnership to advance translational research in human rejuvenation

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Karlsruhe, germany and novato, CA, USA

The Forever Healthy Foundation and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging today announced a new partnership to advance early-stage discoveries at the Institute that show promise to reverse physiologic aging in humans. The focus will be on cutting-edge research aimed at the repair of age-related damage at the cellular and molecular level, a hallmark of the aging process. Forever Healthy will commit up to $1 million per year for five years to drive this innovation. The funding aims to advance early-stage research with high translational potential in order to speed up the transition from lab to product.

German entrepreneur and longevity pioneer Michael Greve founded his humanitarian Forever Healthy initiative with the mission of accelerating the development of therapies to impede the aging process and the diseases that accompany it. This mission is in perfect alignment with the Buck Institute, the first independent biomedical facility in the world focused solely on the biology of aging.

Dec 18, 2021

Breakthrough AI Technique Enables Real-Time Rendering of Scenes in 3D From 2D Images

Posted by in categories: particle physics, robotics/AI, space

The new machine-learning system can generate a 3D scene from an image about 15,000 times faster than other methods. Humans are pretty good at looking at a single two-dimensional image and understanding the full three-dimensional scene that it captures. Artificial intelligence agents are not.


The hunt is on for leptoquarks, particles beyond the limits of the standard model of particle physics —the best description we have so far of the physics that governs the forces of the Universe and its particles. These hypothetical particles could prove useful in explaining experimental and theoretical anomalies observed at particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and could help to unify theories of physics beyond the standard model, if researchers could just spot them.

Dec 18, 2021

Scientists Create ‘Living Machines’ With Algorithms, Frog Cells

Posted by in categories: health, information science

DARPA-funded research is focused on “biobots” with potential environmental and health applications.

Dec 18, 2021

Researchers Teach Human Brain Cells in a Dish to Play “Pong”

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, education, neuroscience

Scientists have successfully taught a collection of human brain cells in a petri dish how to play the video game “Pong” — kind of.

Researchers at the biotechnology startup Cortical Labs have created “ mini-brains ” consisting of 800,000 to one million living human brain cells in a petri dish, New Scientist reports. The cells are placed on top of a microelectrode array that analyzes the neural activity.

We think it’s fair to call them cyborg brains, Brett Kagan, chief scientific officer at Cortical Labs and research lead of the project, told New Scientist.