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Mar 3, 2021

Insect-Inspired Flying Robots: Researchers Introduce a New Generation of Tiny, Agile Drones

Posted by in categories: drones, food, robotics/AI

The technology could boost aerial robots’ repertoire, allowing them to operate in cramped spaces and withstand collisions.

If you’ve ever swatted a mosquito away from your face, only to have it return again (and again and again), you know that insects can be remarkably acrobatic and resilient in flight. Those traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard to build into flying robots, but MIT Assistant Professor Kevin Yufeng Chen has built a system that approaches insects’ agility.

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Mar 2, 2021

The Meaning of Life

Posted by in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hfTnyePBjU

An AI meditation on the Meaning of Life.

All the imagery is generated by the AI using a text prompt.
I inputed “The Meaning of Life” — and these are the results.

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Mar 2, 2021

Computer brings great classical composers to life with deepfakery

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Composers are being brought to life with deep fake AI technology.

Mar 2, 2021

Photos of Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie and others come alive (creepily), thanks to AI

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In AI-generated animations, faces that were once frozen in time blink, turn their heads and even smile.

Mar 2, 2021

DARPA Announces Research Teams Selected to Semantic Forensics Program

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Researchers to develop automated tools that aid analysts as they tackle the looming rise of automated multimodal media manipulation.


Today we announced the SemaFor research teams that are developing #AI tools to help detect & understand media manipulations @Kitware @LifeAtPurdue @SRI_Intl @UCBerkeley @Google @nvidia @AccentureFed @nyuniversity @LockheedMartin https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-03-02

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Mar 2, 2021

DARPA Initiates Design of LongShot Unmanned Air Vehicle

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Contracts have been awarded to @GeneralAtomics, @LockheedMartin, and @northropgrumman for the new LongShot project to develop an air-launched unmanned air vehicle that can employ multiple air-to-air weapons. https://ddmdraft.darpa.mil/news-events/2021-02-05b

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Mar 2, 2021

Detecting multiple sepsis biomarkers from whole blood – made fast, accurate, and cheap

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, chemistry, robotics/AI

The Wyss Institute’s eRapid electrochemical sensor technology now enables sensitive, specific and multiplexed detection of blood biomarkers at low cost with potential for many clinical applications.


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The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (http://wyss.harvard.edu) uses Nature’s design principles to develop bioinspired materials and devices that will transform medicine and create a more sustainable world. Wyss researchers are developing innovative new engineering solutions for healthcare, energy, architecture, robotics, and manufacturing that are translated into commercial products and therapies through collaborations with clinical investigators, corporate alliances, and formation of new startups. The Wyss Institute creates transformative technological breakthroughs by engaging in high risk research, and crosses disciplinary and institutional barriers, working as an alliance that includes Harvard’s Schools of Medicine, Engineering, Arts & Sciences and Design, and in partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston University, Tufts University, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, University of Zurich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Mar 2, 2021

Researchers Linked Dead Locust’s Ear to Robot and It Works

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Tel Aviv University researchers linked a robot to a dead locust’s ear, enabling the bot to actually hear. Read it here.

Mar 2, 2021

World’s First Supersonic Unmanned Combat Drone Reaches Speeds Of Over 1,500mph

Posted by in categories: drones, robotics/AI, space travel

It can exceed the speed of sound, hitting an astonishing Mach 2.1! 😲🤯


A new combat drone has been created that can hit speeds of more than 1500mph.

The drone is much bigger than the ones you’ll have seen floating around your local parks, however, and looks more like a small spaceship.

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Mar 1, 2021

National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence issues report on how to maintain U.S. dominance

Posted by in categories: government, internet, policy, robotics/AI, security

The 15-member commission calls a $40 billion investment to expand and democratize AI research and development a “modest down payment for future breakthroughs,” and encourages an attitude toward investment in innovation from policymakers akin that which led to building the interstate highway system in the 1950s. Ultimately, the group envisions hundreds of billions of dollars of spending on AI by the federal government in the coming years.


The National Security Commission on AI report makes recommendations ranging from 5G and China to immigration policy and civil rights.

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