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This blog explores the fields that embrace the development of an ecology of soft and sentient machines that will help and assist humans in the broadest possible sense to support and sustain our welfare.
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Happy Holidays!
Have a great summer… We’ll be back with more this fall!
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Hybrid Humans
Biohybrid technology fuses the organic with the artificial to extend the limits of our bodies While the human body has proven to be a structure that is adaptable, versatile and resilient, its organic nature makes it susceptible to many diseases … Continue reading
Those Blue Jeans Sound Like a C Sharp
Cyborg, Neil Harbisson listens to the music of colour Harbisson’s visual world is painted in black, white and shades of grey. A rare genetic condition termed Achromatopsia is what’s responsible for colouring his surroundings like the pages of a newspaper. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Montandon, colour through sound, Cyborg, Eyeborg, Neil Harbisson, Robot Companions
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Robotics Faces the Law
Research bodies around the globe are making an effort to draft laws governing the development of robots as they become increasingly complex and ingrained in our societies. In September of 2010, the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences
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Tagged AHRC, EPSRC, FET Flagships, Paolo Dario, Robot Companions for Citizens, Robotics Laws
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Graphene Graphene Everywhere!
If you plan on researching Graphene, you’re in plenty of company! Last year, Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, two researchers from the University of Manchester, won the Nobel prize in Physics for their discovery of a new material: Graphene. How did they … Continue reading
¨Technology’s Helping Us Become More Human¨
Check out Amber Case’s TED talk While ancient and modern tools serve as an extension of our physical selves, today’s technology also allows us to extend our mental selves. This is what Amber Case discusses in a TED talk on … Continue reading
Are You Leaving Your Algorithms Unsupervised?
Don’t feel so bad, Wall Street does it too According to Kevin Slavin, Wall Street now employs over 2000 physicists developing algorithms to help manage stock trades. Slavin fears that we’ve done the math but are now unable to understand … Continue reading
Has IBM Taken a Trip Back to the Future?
According to scientists in the field, neuromorphic chips are old news In last week’s IBM press release, the company revealed its creation of a ¨ new generation of experimental computer chips designed to emulate the brain’s abilities for perception, action … Continue reading
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Tagged Cognitive computing, computer chip, Dharmendra Modha, IBM, Smarter planet, SyNAPSE
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iCub
The famed European robot has made itself a home in laboratories around the globe iCub is a robot capable of interacting with the world much the way a small child does . It is used to look at how experience … Continue reading
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What Does it Mean to Be Human?
The Smithsonian Institute of Natural History wants to know! Click HERE to go to their website and read the opinions of people from all over the world. You can submit your own answer too.