Lifeboat Foundation

Your blood is slightly magnetic.

Elon Musk just pulled off a Steve Jobs-ian “one more thing” surprise. https://bloom.bg/2zaIMum

We’re no stranger to robotics in the medical field. Robot-assisted surgery is becoming more and more common. Many training programs are starting to include robotic and virtual reality scenarios to provide hands-on training for students without putting patients at risk.

With all of these advances in medical robotics, three niches stand out above the rest: surgery, medical imaging, and drug discovery. How have robotics already begun to exert their influence on these practices, and how will they change them for good?

Thought leaders reveal the technologies and topics likely to transform life-science research in the year ahead.

The Alphabet spinoff is in a rush, so it’s buying thousands more “driverless” cars from Fiat-Chrysler.

This tractor beam breakthrough means humans are one step closer to levitation. (via Seeker)

The groundbreaking software takes AI one step closer to achieving humanlike intelligence, according to its creator.

Scientists who identified specific brain cells in mice that control anxiety say the discovery could provide insights that might eventually help people with panic disorder and social phobia.

A third thumb may be the beginning of human augmentation.