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Nov 17, 2017
Boston Dynamics CEO: ‘Robotics will be bigger than the Internet’
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: internet, robotics/AI
I dont know about his comment. But, this will probably become at least as big as the auto industry. If you had a robot that could cook, clean, take care of the yard, drive, run errands, had various entertainment features, etc… Then, every household in America will want one. It will just come down to getting the robots to the point where they can do all of that, and having the vision to do it, and initially selling it to the public.
“The Internet lets every person reach out and touch all the information in the world. But robotics lets you reach out and touch and manipulate all the stuff in the world — and so it is not just restricted to information, it is everything,” says Raibert, who spoke from the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at the end of October.
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Nov 17, 2017
A Supreme Court justice’s open letter to AI
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, sex
Let me start with two brief stories about social change. The first concerns changing laws and values about relationships. Only in 1967—in the aptly named case of Loving v. Virginia—did the United States Supreme Court recognize that laws prohibiting interracial marriage violated the United States Constitution. Nineteen years before, in 1948, the Supreme Court of California decided that such restrictions were unlawful. The California Supreme Court’s decision finding a constitutional right to same-sex marriage also predated the federal decision, and reflected how, to channel William Gibson, th…
Nov 17, 2017
Bioengineered robotic hand with its own nervous system will sense touch
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, cyborgs, health, robotics/AI
The sense of touch is often taken for granted. For someone without a limb or hand, losing that sense of touch can be devastating. While highly sophisticated prostheses with complex moving fingers and joints are available to mimic almost every hand motion, they remain frustratingly difficult and unnatural for the user. This is largely because they lack the tactile experience that guides every movement. This void in sensation results in limited use or abandonment of these very expensive artificial devices. So why not make a prosthesis that can actually feel its environment?
That is exactly what an interdisciplinary team of scientists from Florida Atlantic University and the University of Utah School of Medicine aims to do. They are developing a first-of-its-kind bioengineered robotic hand that will grow and adapt to its environment. This living robot will have its own peripheral nervous system directly linking robotic sensors and actuators. FAUs College of Engineering and Computer Science is leading the multidisciplinary team that has received a four-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health for a project titled Virtual Neuroprosthesis: Restoring Autonomy to People Suffering from Neurotrauma.
Nov 17, 2017
This Dutch scientist has grown real meat in a laboratory
Posted by Montie Adkins in category: food
This cardiologist is betting that his lab-grown meat startup can solve the global food crisis.
Nov 17, 2017
The Secret to Long Life? It May Lurk in the DNA of the Oldest Among Us
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, transhumanism
Interesting article about the longevity work of my friend James Clement in The New York Times: https://nyti.ms/2hw8W32 #transhumanism
James Clement has scoured the globe for supercentenarians, aged 110 and older, willing to contribute their genomes to a rare scientific cache.
Nov 17, 2017
FDA seeks to speed development of ‘regenerated’ organs for medical use
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension
It’s all a question of money. We should come up with enough money for funding this so that we can clone a perfect genetic match of every organ in the body by 2025. It will solve the organ shortage issue, and nip the illegal black market organ industry in the bud.
The FDA said it is looking into “regenerative medicine.”
Nov 17, 2017
A Global Collaboration to Create “Artificial Organisms” Just Went Live
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: robotics/AI
Mindfire is dedicated to cracking the “brain code” to develop AI with human-level capabilities. The first mission will begin in the spring of next year.
Nov 17, 2017
China’s nuclear spaceships will be ‘mining asteroids and flying astronauts to the moon’ as it aims to overtake US in space race
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: space travel
State media publishes Chinese scientists’ ambitious plans to revolutionise space travel and exploration in coming decades.