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Apr 16, 2022

Ax-1, Israel and the ‘New Space’ revolution: Q&A with Israel space chief Uri Oron

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, satellites

Israel punches above its weight in space science and exploration, as it does in most other arenas.

For example, the country developed its own line of orbital rockets, the Shavit (“Comet”) series, which has lofted a number of satellites over the years. And in April 2019, Israel’s Beresheet (“In the Beginning”) mission attempted to put a robotic lander down on the moon, something achieved only by the United States, the USSR/Russia and China — and nearly succeeded.

Apr 16, 2022

Why AI Counts as the Biggest Factor Behind Metaverse growth?

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Role of AI in Metaverse helps provide a different vision to the data science in Metaverse which led to Metaverse growth. Artificial Intelligence can help Metaverse making way for evolution of Web 3.0.

Apr 15, 2022

Horizon Worlds Trailer

Posted by in category: virtual reality

Check out this new look at the rebranded Horizon Worlds!

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Apr 15, 2022

Origami-Inspired Robotic Crawlers Are Inching Their Way Into Your Next Colonoscopy

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

They’re poised to go where no human has gone before.

Apr 15, 2022

Metaverse: How Companies like Amazon Are Innovating With Unique Ways in The Virtual World

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, evolution, virtual reality

This article has been sponsored by Amazon India.

M etaverse has been touted to be the next big thing to bring about a global evolution, not just in technology but in almost every sector.

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Apr 15, 2022

Brain Implant Allows Completely Locked-In Patient To Communicate

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

A man left in a completely locked-in state by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has been able to communicate with his family and carers thanks to an implant. The device helped the patient, who was unable to move any muscles or even open his eyes, contact the outside world using only his brain activity.

Rapid neurodegeneration

In the last decade, combinations of brain implants and brain-computer interfaces (BCI) have enabled people with severe brain injuries or neurodegeneration to regain communicative ability. The new study, published in Nature Communications by an international research team, is the first to be used successfully in a patient with such severe neurodegeneration.

Apr 15, 2022

The Morning After: MIT engineers’ stroke-surgery robot

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

Don’t worry, yes, there are even more Musk machinations, but first let’s broach something a little different — and possibly lifesaving. A team of MIT engineers is developing a telerobotic system for neurosurgeons. It unveiled a robotic arm that doctors can control remotely using a modified joystick to treat stroke patients.

The arm has a magnet attached to its wrist, and surgeons can adjust its orientation to guide a magnetic wire through the patient’s arteries and vessels to remove blood clots in the brain. Like in-person procedures, surgeons will have to rely on live imaging to get to the blood clot, but the machine means they don’t have to be physically with the patient.

There’s a critical time window after someone suffers a stroke to ensure the best chance of recovery. The robot could make treatment possible even if a neurosurgeon is miles away.

Apr 15, 2022

4 days in, Axiom Space’s crew makes history for private space flight at ISS

Posted by in category: space travel

Axiom-1 is the first all-private mission to the International Space Station, chartered by Axiom Space through SpaceX in the hopes of funding a private space station.

Apr 15, 2022

Italian City Implements 3D Printed Benches Made From Recycled Plastic

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, materials

In recent years, more and more environmentally friendly projects are being developed in many countries all around the world. Similar to earlier successful projects, like for example the Netherlands-based Print your City, R3direct from Italy is now also starting to use additive manufacturing as an eco-friendly option to develop street furniture. By using plastic waste as their main material and with the help of modern technology, the company is now 3D printing benches. And the first example of this is already installed in the heart of Lucca, Italy. Called USE (Urban Safety Everyday), these benches are intended to show that technologies can make it possible to significantly reduce plastic waste by reusing the recycled material.


Italian manufacturing company introduces new, eco-friendly public benches made of recycled plastic using 3D printing technologies.

Apr 15, 2022

Apple Says Steep Horizon Worlds Creator Fees Show Meta’s “Hypocrisy”

Posted by in category: futurism

Earlier this week Meta announced that it would begin testing tools to let creators sell things for real money in Horizon Worlds and would charge a fee of 47.5% of their earnings. The fee structure seemed at odds with prior comments from Meta which have criticized app store fees from the likes of Apple and Google. Now Apple is accusing the company of hypocrisy.

Following the news this week that Meta planned to take nearly half of a creator’s earnings in Horizon Worlds, Apple didn’t miss the chance to point out that this was coming from a company which has on multiple occasions criticized Apple’s app store fee of 30% (after 15% for the first $1 million in annual revenue).

Speaking to MarketWatch, Apple spokesman Fred Sainz had this to say: