The internet of thoughts is coming
Bot-enabled interface between brains and cloud storage is likely.
Before the century is out, advances in nano-technology, nano-medicine, AI, and computation will result in the develop...
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Killer robots already exist
Anxiety about autonomous weapons is rational.
Humans will always make the final decision on whether armed robots can shoot, according to a statement by the US Depa...
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Legal problems loom for cyborgs
The problem is the law doesn’t recognise them.
The new movie Alita: Battle Angel has once again drawn our attention to the idea of cyborgs: machine-human hybrids. A...
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The science of cyborgs like Alita: Battle Angel
It make us think about what the future looks likes.
Alita: preparing for battle. Credit: 20th Century Fox Alita: Battle Angel is an interesting and wild ride, jam-packed...
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10 most exciting developments with robots
Celebrate advances in several different fields.
From the pages of science fiction stories, to cinema and television screens, to perching next to us in the workplace,...
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Robot reveals when tetrapods walked tall
Scientists reverse engineer bot to learn about first land animals.
Tetrapods learnt to walk efficiently on land earlier than previously thought, a new study suggests, and the prehistor...
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Robotic creepy-crawlies climb walls
Two teams of researchers exploit electrostatic forces.
One of the Shanghai team's wall-climbing robots.Gu et al., Sci. Robot. 3, eaat2874 (2018)Two teams of researcher...
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Star Wars shows the way on robotics
A droid in the new flick suggests the future of robot design. Sort of.
With the release of Solo: A Star Wars Movie and the rise of its break-out star, a self-modifying droid called L3-37, ...
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Robots offer new ways to study sea life
Scuba diving biologists may become an endangered species.
Researchers seeking new ways to explore the ocean have developed an underwater “robotic plankton” inexpensive enough ...
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Mantis makes a spectacle of itself
Studying praying mantis vision could lead to cheaper robots.
Stereoscopic vision in praying mantises works in a significantly different way to that found in mammals such as human...
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The 10 “great challenges” for robots
Moral boundaries are one of the difficulties faced by bots.
Developing the capacity to make moral decisions is one of the 10 greatest challenges facing robots in the near future...
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Robots heal injured pig oesaphagus
A team report success with a cell-regenerating robot implant.
Every so often the march of research seems to take an abrupt turn into the realm of science fiction. For example, a n...