Archive Date: 5/2010 Back To Archives
Venter Creates First Synthetic Self-Replicating Bacteria from Scratch
Written by: Aaron Saenz 617 days ago
*Update: We’ve included the Science interview with Venter after the break. Craig Venter wants to program life the way we [...]
TeleHealth is Here, and It’s Growing
Written by: Aaron Saenz 617 days ago
A new report from Intel shows that healthcare is likely to become increasingly reliant on telehealth (TH) in the next [...]
Ingestible Surgical Robots—Hard To Swallow Concept?
Written by: Christopher de la Torre 617 days ago
Medical robots are advancing at phenomenal speed, and within years micro-sized robots could be assisting surgeons with operations from inside [...]
Amazing Monocopter Flies With Just One Wing (Video)
Written by: Aaron Saenz 618 days ago
The University of Maryland has produced a flying machine with only one wing – a monocopter! Evan Ulrich, its PhD [...]
Anybots Debuts New $15k Telepresence Robot, Is it a Fail? (video)
Written by: Aaron Saenz 618 days ago
Anybots, the telepresence startup out of Silicon Valley, wants to bring robots to the workplace. Their new QB telerobot lets [...]
A Mosquito Zapping Laser That Fights Malaria? Yes!
Written by: Aaron Saenz 618 days ago
Intellectual Ventures Lab is shooting mosquitos out of the sky with lasers. The invention-focused company received funding from the Bill [...]
Tony Robbins, Sergey Brin Become Robots – The Telepresence Revolution
Written by: Keith Kleiner 619 days ago
This past weekend while attending an Xprize fundraiser in San Francisco I saw self-help guru Tony Robbins and Google co-founder Sergey [...]
Catch a Glimpse of the Future of Robotics, Video of ICRA 2010
Written by: Aaron Saenz 619 days ago
IEEE’s International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) is always a hot bed of robotic activity and this year’s meeting [...]
Robot Performs Wedding in Japan (Video)
Written by: Aaron Saenz 619 days ago
For what was probably the first time in history, a Japanese couple was married under the cold mechanical gaze of [...]
fMRI Scans Reveal Some ‘Vegetative’ Patients Are Actually Conscious!
Written by: peniel 620 days ago
In a recent report in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit [...]
