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Jun 11, 2017

High-tech farms give a new meaning to ‘locally grown’

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

Startups are leading the way to a future in which more food is grown closer to where people live.

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Jun 11, 2017

Driverless Autonomous Cars Will Be on U.S. Roads in the Next 2 Months

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Developers of driverless systems can apply now for permits to test cars.

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Jun 11, 2017

In the Ruth Porat era at Alphabet, even robot video stars have to find some paying customers

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

Nice jibe at Boston Dynamics, they are only uhh the best legged robot lab in the world. Google didnt have a clue what they were doing when they bought Boston Dynamics, and thankfully getting sold now before they did anymore damage to it.

I Have a brilliant idea, lets force them to work on wheeled robots LOL 😛.


Alphabet’s sale of a robotics business to Japan’s Softbank shows that CFO Ruth Porat is taking aim even at the company’s most advanced technologies.

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Jun 11, 2017

Scientists Claim to ‘Upload Knowledge Into the Brain’ Using Matrix-Style Device

Posted by in category: neuroscience

Scientists at HRL labs claim to have built a device that could upload knowledge directly into the brain just like the matrix films.

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Jun 11, 2017

Nike-backed Grabit has quietly raised $25 million for robots that handle what others can’t grasp

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

Robot arms have come a long way since the 1960’s when George C. Devol and Joseph Engelberger created the earliest industrial models. Those had two-finger grippers that, in retrospect, look fit to pluck a rubber ducky out of a bin in a carnival game, but nothing too sophisticated.

By now, robots in factories and warehouses can adjust their grip like human hands, or use suction and pliable materials to move objects wherever they need to go. Problems arise, however, when objects are porous, tiny, or need to be placed with great precision, as with materials handling in textiles, food, automotive and electronics manufacturing.

A startup called Grabit Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., gets around problems with robot dexterity and grip by employing “electroadhesion” to move different materials. Yes, that’s the force that lifts strands of your hair away from your scalp when you rub a balloon on your head.

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Jun 10, 2017

Startup aims to send probe to another star

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fo46CQr3stw

Project Dragonfly is a feasibility study for a space mission to another star. It is conducted by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies I4IS. The goal is to send a robotic spacecraft to another star, in order to explore exoplanets, other star systems, the interstellar medium and discover potential life.

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Jun 10, 2017

Patient uses fat stem cells to repair his wrist

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Bill Marlette’s wrist wore away its cartilage until his bones were grinding against each other, but a new treatment using stem cells from his own fat has rebuilt his joint.

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Jun 10, 2017

Quantum Computers and Parallel Universes

Posted by in categories: computing, cosmology, quantum physics

We have a highly respected Theoretical Physicist and a pioneer of Quantum Computing, along with the Founder of one of the leading quantum computer companies, D-Wave (whose clients include Google and NASA), talking about parallel universes. Here is a key that I discovered. They are not talking about parallel universes as a theory but as something factual that exists.


An amazing article on the ability of a Quantum Computer to exploit parallel universes. This article is a MUST READ!

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Jun 10, 2017

Are We Building Artificial Brains And Uploading Minds To The Cloud Right Now?

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing

https://youtube.com/watch?v=amwyBmWxESA

When people post their emotional responses to social media and through their free email account(s), they are loading their human personal emotional responses, judgments, and biases into a large computer and cloud database? Everything we post and respond to is data somewhere. The truth is, hundreds of millions of people around the planet do this every day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.


Are we uploading our brains to a cloud on a supercomputer and evolving into an artificially intelligent machine? This question and more…

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Jun 10, 2017

Small nuclear fusion space and energy systems using high efficiency RF heating

Posted by in category: space

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has two NASA grants.

Princeton satellite systems and Princeton Plasma Physics Lab will work on the two projects. Phase I STTRs of $125,000 each will run for one year, at which point we have the opportunity to propose Phase II work up to $750,000.

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