We’ve successfully engineered giant robot arms for building cars on an assembly line. But smaller mass-produced items—like electronics—still mostly rely on the nimble hands and fingers of a human. Building and controlling robots on a very small scale is still very difficult, but a company called SRI International may have found a clever solution using magnets.
Somebody ring the bell at the blood factory, because it’s almost time to get those assembly lines running. Almost. A team of British scientists say they’ve created red blood cells suitable for transfusion into humans, a breakthrough that could change the lives of millions—if it works.
The one thing that Howard Wolowitz of The Big Bang Theory missed during his space mission was eating his greens, joking aside however, there is a grain of truth in … Continue reading
Microsoft is toying with Live Tiles that are interactive, according to some videos from the company’s research division’s TechFest 2014 back in February. The videos were pulled by Microsoft shortly … Continue reading
Furniture of the future could have a shapeshifting feature that allows it to change shape based on the owner’s mood. The work on this was performed by MIT, with the … Continue reading
Audi will put its self-driving cars to work in cities across the world, detailing how connected cars and the Internet of Things will shape the its vision of tomorrow’s transportation. … Continue reading
The US Navy will begin in-the-wild trials of a laser weapon that can bring down aircraft or small vessels this summer, controlled just like a video game and costing about … Continue reading
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh showed this week that they could teach an old mouse’s thymus to bounce back to a healthy, youthful state, simply by manipulating a single protein that controls gene expression. It’s the first time scientists have been able to regenerate a living organ by gene manipulation, and it could have huge implications in health science.
The Asteroid Redirect Mission, which has a fairly self-explanatory name, is part of NASA’s mission to develop technologies for redirecting and otherwise neutralizing possible asteroid threats. With the mission comes … Continue reading
Possible uses for Google Glass have been detailed since the device’s unveiling, the latest of which focuses on aiding those with Parkinson’s disease. A team of researchers at Newcastle University … Continue reading
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