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May 1, 2021

A tactile sensing foot to increase the stability of legged robots

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

In order to effectively navigate real-world environments, legged robots should be able to move swiftly and freely while maintaining their balance. This is particularly true for humanoid robots, robots with two legs and a human-like body structure.

Building robots that are stable on their legs while walking can be challenging. In fact, legged robots typically have unstable dynamics, due to their pendulum-like structure.

Researchers at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology recently developed a computer vision-based robotic foot with tactile sensing capabilities. When integrated at the end of a ’s legs, the artificial foot can increase a robot’s balance and stability during locomotion.

May 1, 2021

India is churning out billion-dollar startups. Now they need to start making money

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics

The mood a year later is very different, despite a brutal surge in coronavirus cases that is threatening the economic recovery. India’s startup community has found itself in an unprecedented funding bonanza.


In the first four months of 2021, 11 startups have attained unicorn status, meaning they’ve reached a valuation of at least $1 billion.

May 1, 2021

AI Challenges For The Health IT Industry: Should We Expect Electronic Doctors?

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

Yes, but they wont be trusted til 2035.


Current trends in AI use in healthcare lead me to posit that this market will significantly grow in the coming years. So, should leaders in healthcare expect the emergence of a fully automated electronic physician, sonographer or surgeon as a replacement for the human healthcare professional? Can the development of AI in healthcare help overcome the difficulties the industry faces today? To figure all this out, I would like to analyze the current challenges of using AI in healthcare.

Let’s discuss two promising examples: the application of AI in diagnosis and reading images, and the use of robotic systems in surgery.

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May 1, 2021

Surprise in the Deep Sea: Researchers Discover Unexpected Paths on the Ocean Floor

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

Sponges: They are considered to be one of the most primitive forms of animal life, because they have neither locomotion organs nor a nervous system. A team around deep-sea scientist Antje Boetius has now discovered that sponges leave trails on the sea floor in the Arctic deep sea. They conclude that the animals might move actively — even if only a few centimeters per year. They are now publishing these unique findings in the journal Current Biology.

The surprise was great when researchers looked at high-resolution images of the sea floor of the Arctic deep sea in detail: Path-like tracks across the sediments ended where sponges were located. These trails were observed to run in all directions, including uphill. “We conclude from this that the sponges might actively move across the sea floor and leave these traces as a result of their movement,” reports Dr Teresa Morganti, sponge expert from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen. This is particularly exciting because science had previously assumed that most sponges are attached to the seafloor or are passively moved by ocean currents and, usually down slopes.

May 1, 2021

Watch SpaceX Fly 4 Astronauts for Late Night Splash Down

Posted by in category: space travel

Crew-1, which launched to the space station in November, will head home in the capsule called Resilience.

May 1, 2021

Pissing Match: Is the World Ready for the Waterless Urinal?

Posted by in categories: business, electronics

Circa 2010


In a laboratory 10 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, a mechanical penis sputters to life. A technician starts a timer as a stream of water erupts from the apparatus’s brass tip, arcing into a urinal mounted exactly 12 inches away. James Krug smiles. His latest back-splatter experiment is under way.

Krug is an unusual entrepreneur. Twenty years ago, he was a rising star in the film and television business. He served as a vice president of the Disney Channel in the 1980s and ran a distribution company with members of the Disney family in the ’90s. But 11 years ago, Krug became convinced that the world did not need another TV show. What it needed was a better urinal.

May 1, 2021

Coronavirus: New variants are causing growing concern in Africa

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A lack of specialised genome sequencing is making it difficult to track new mutations in Africa.

May 1, 2021

Juan Williams — Emmy Award Winning Television Commentator, Radio Personality, Newspaper Columnist

Posted by in category: life extension

Emmy award winning television commentator, radio personality, and newspaper columnist, juan williams, talking about inter-generational dynamics, ageism, and aging in america.


Progress, Potential, And Possibilities has the honor of being joined today by Emmy Award winning Television Commentator, Radio Personality, and Newspaper Columnist, Mr. Juan Williams.

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May 1, 2021

Once a Covid hotspot, Italian village now intrigues researchers with ‘super-immune’ cases

Posted by in category: futurism

Very close to Vicenza.


Covid “super-immune” people seem to be in a high concentration in Vo’. Researchers want to know why.

May 1, 2021

Stars That Race through Space at Nearly the Speed of Light

Posted by in category: cosmology

Some are blasted out of galaxies by interactions with black holes; others, which orbit supermassive black holes, can smash together in titanic explosions.