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The immortal first words on the moon, uttered so shakily by a man who has done his best to avoid the spotlight ever since, are even more impressive in hindsight. The Eagle lander nearly plunked Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong in a boulder field, and Armstrong had to take over from autopilot to set the spacecraft down. This is according to very rare new commentary from Armstrong himself.
"Holographic WALL-E" using Kinect SDK and Windows Phone | Science News
The immortal first words on the moon, uttered so shakily by a man who has done his best to avoid the spotlight ever since, are even more impressive in hindsight. The Eagle lander nearly plunked Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong in a boulder field, and Armstrong had to take over from autopilot to set the spacecraft down. This is according to very rare new commentary from Armstrong himself.
Hexy the Hexapod - Low-Cost Six-Legged Open Robot (w/video) | Science News
Humanoid Robot Swarm Synchronized Using Quorum Sensing - Technology Review | Science News
A group of researchers from the University of Kansas has now put forth a new explanation, termed “ Subjective Uncertainty Theory ” (SUT). The basic idea in its super-simplified form is that we’re occasionally so afraid of realizing we can’t understand a person’s complexities, we just pretend those complexities don’t exist and instead focus on their concrete traits (e.g. appearance, professional duties, IQ, etc.)
The buzz around Facebook’s IPO tomorrow got me thinking about the future of web startups, and of entrepreneurship more generally. To get some clues, I reached out to Brad Feld—a managing director at Foundry Group, a cofounder of TechStars, and an avid marathoner (he has already run 21 marathons), among other titles—who was recently ranked the “most respected venture capitalist.”
AI uprising: humans will be outsourced, not obliterated | Science News
Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to move her own arms or legs for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she can steer a robotic arm towards a bottle, pick it up, and drink her morning coffee. The interface includes a sensor implanted in Cathy's brain, which 'reads' her thoughts, and a decoder, which turns her thoughts into instructions for the robotic arm. In this video, watch Cathy control the arm and hear from the team behind the pioneering study.
Controlling a Robot With Your Mind (Infographics) | Science News
The creative arts became possible as an evolutionary advance when humans developed the capacity for abstract thought. The human mind could then form a template of a shape, or a kind of object, or an action, and pass a concrete representation of the conception to another mind. Thus was first born true, productive language , constructed from arbitrary words and symbols . Language was followed by visual art, music, dance, and the ceremonies and rituals of religion.
Mind-controlled robot arms show promise | Science News
How do we know how many eggs are in a dozen? How do we tell red from blue? How can we imagine tomorrow when the sun has not even begun to set on today? These are just a few of the mysteries associated with the human brain, the organ that has allowed our species to build skyscrapers, create artworks, and survive for several thousand years— but what is it about this mess of neurons that allows us to think, interpret, remember, and create?
[VIDEO] When creative machines overtake man (TEDTalks) | Science News
Italian quadruped robot goes for a walk | KurzweilAI | Science News
How do we know how many eggs are in a dozen? How do we tell red from blue? How can we imagine tomorrow when the sun has not even begun to set on today? These are just a few of the mysteries associated with the human brain, the organ that has allowed our species to build skyscrapers, create artworks, and survive for several thousand years— but what is it about this mess of neurons that allows us to think, interpret, remember, and create?
Transfer Data Through The Human Body To Your Devices | Science News
Peristaltic mandala shows a flight through artificially generated mandalas. Actually, each mandala is based on a rotated and reflected letter from the Latin alphabet. These kaleidoscopic transformations are dependent on the time, so as we fly through the peristaltic mandalas, they contract and relax.
Robot reveals the inner workings of brain cells | Science News
Why is there so much sex? This is an evolutionary puzzle. After all, sex is costly. It takes time and energy (find a mate, impress that mate, which incidentally can make you a target for predators, and so on).
The Robotic Future is Fast, Cheap and Out of Control | Science News
The robotic future is here, and it looks nothing like we thought it would. Instead of humanoid, highly-intelligent robots that do our bidding, the future is increasingly one of robotic swarms, robotic quadrotors, and tiny robots no larger than insects that perform surgery. The robotics revolution, in short, is fast, cheap and out of controlRobo-Readers Used to Grade Test Essays | Science News | Scoop.it
For science, revision is a victory. In religion, or astrology, or any other belief system, revision is a kind of defeat. You were supposed to have known the answer to this. But the joy of science is that it’s about revision.[VIDEO] Robots fighting wars could be blamed for mistakes on the battlefield | Science News | Scoop.it
If the human race manages to redesign itself, to reduce or eliminate the risk of self-destruction, we will probably reach out to the stars and colonize other planets. But this will be done, Hawking believes, with intelligent machines based on mechanical and electronic components, rather than macromolecules, which could eventually replace DNA based life, just as DNA may have replaced an earlier form of life .Our brain is a powerful, plastic organ , encompassing the ability mold itself into powerful tools and adapt to ever-changing environments. The evolutionary predisposition to prefer sweet, high fat foods plus the enticing stimuli entering from food media can equal a higher likelihood of becoming obese and acquire chronic diseases. By enacting larger scale social interventions, as well as implementing smaller scale individual interventions, Canadians could enjoy a healthier life , free from diet-related mortality and morbidity.