May 24th, 2010 :: 2 Comments
Coming soon into a body near you.
In a veritable 1-2 punch of freaky new robots, the journal Nature has recently published two new studies detailing how researchers have created nanorobot spiders made of DNA that also walk on DNA. Before I get into how mind boggling terrifying this sounds, read on for some specifics.
October 11th, 2009 :: 0 Comments
Sure it's terrifying, but at least it doesn't sting.
Researchers at Harvard University have been awarded $10 million from the National Science Foundation to build a swarm of robotic bees. Harvard calls this the RoboBee Project, and their aim is to create swarms of robotic bees capable of pollinating crops efficiently. For the past few years, bees in the US have been dying at an alarming rate due to colony collapse disorder. Bees are incredibly valuable to humans since they pollinate a large portion of crops around the globe. Scientists are baffled by the disappearance of so many bees, and this is a viable answer to replace real bees. To try to make their RoboBees function like normal bees, Harvard is researching new ways to integrate collective/hive intelligence into their swarms of RoboBees, as well as individual artificial intelligence into each and every Robobee. So are robotic bees with an advanced collective the answer to the future of agriculture?
September 27th, 2009 :: 2 Comments
Lately, a large amount of content coming our way all share a related topic: mind reading. There are titles like “Brain Scanners Can See Your Decisions Before You Make Them” and “Brain scanning may be used in security checks“. The brain scanners that are currently used by scientists are not the kind of mind reading machines we see in science fiction movies, but they are still quite amazing. With all the research and information scientists now have on the human brain, they are able to translate data from brain scans to be able to know exactly what you saw or what you were thinking. In the future, could robots use this research and develop new technology to help them in their destruction of mankind?
“Scientists are one step closer to knowing what you’ve seen by reading your mind”
So how exactly can a scientist read your mind? It’s all done through careful analysis of the brain’s neural activities and patterns. To do this, a functional magnetic resonance imager, or fMRI, is used. So, how does a fMRI work?
September 20th, 2009 :: 1 Comment
In a never ending search of information regarding the development of killer robots, I came across a Popular Science article about Japanese scientists going for a quiet walk in their prototype robotic exoskeletons. The article has a video following the scientists as they walk down a sidewalk.
The exoskeleton is named HAL, which stands for Hybrid Assisted Limb. It is being developed to help recovering patients or patients in physical therapy to move around and to also help users lift heavy objects. The prototype shown in the video is not a full HAL system, but rather a partial system consisting of the exoskeleton’s legs. The scientists in the video are also eerily quiet.
September 8th, 2009 :: 0 Comments
Everyone has had one of those days were their brain just didn’t seem to work correctly. You couldn’t remember anything, important or otherwise, and you stumbled through easy tasks like your brain was in a fog. Maybe you hit fell on your head one to many times as a kid or you partied to hard when you were 13. For whatever reason, you decide you want a brand new brain. Well, in 10 years you may be able to do just that. It will probably cost way too much money at first, kind of like this.
“I absolutely believe it is technically and biologically possible. The only uncertainty is financial. It is an extremely expensive project and not all is yet secured,” said Professor Henry Markram of the Brain Mind Institute in Switzerland.
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