Yearly Archives: 2010

Motoman Robot Dresses Up and Serves Ice Cream In Tokyo Theme Park (video)

What do you get when you mix robotics, soft serve ice cream, and a mind-melting theme song? You get Yaskawa-kun. Now appearing in Tokyo's...

The Craig Venter Interview Gives a Grim Perspective on Genetics

"We have learned nothing from the genome." That's the grim message that J. Craig Venter recently gave Der Spiegel in an amazing interview. Venter,...

Lawnmower Robots Get Millions in Funding, Head Towards the Golf Green

Precise Path just received an additional $4.5 million dollars in funding for their robots that mow grass. According to their recent press release, the...

Solar Powered Bags Get You Ready To Go Back To School

Every time my mobile phone battery dies while I'm on the go, it takes a little part of me with it. Thankfully I can...

Autism Diagnosed with a Fifteen Minute Brain Scan (Video)

A new technique developed at King’s College London uses a fifteen minute MRI scan to diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The scan is used...

Nao Robot Develops Emotions, Learns To Interact With Humans

Science fiction has taught me to fear and respect robots with emotions. Now scientists are teaching robots to fear and respect humans with emotions....

Singularity Summit 2010: Optimism, Intelligence, the Future – Oh My

The Singularity is near...it's at the Hyatt in San Francisco. This past weekend I saw some of the leading minds in accelerating technologies gather...

DLR’s Cool Looking Upper Body and Lower Body Robots (video)

Show me two robots that look like they can fit together and I start having fantasies about real world versions of Voltron. Such was...

12 Videos That Will Help You Love the Future

What are you going to be doing twenty years from now? Wrong. Whatever you pictured wasn't nearly crazy enough. Technology is advancing too quickly...

Berkeley Won’t Give Personalized Results to Students for Genetic Tests

UC Berkeley sparked a bit of controversy earlier when they announced they would be giving 5000 incoming freshman the option of taking a simple...

The Alzheimer’s Drugs You Still Can’t Get

Twenty years ago, researchers made serious headway in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease (AD). They discovered a link between the brain damage in...

Voice-Actions on Android Look Great – Star Trek Quality!

Google may have hit a homerun with the development of its latest App for Android phones. Their Voice Search application now features 'voice-actions' which...

WowWee’s New Roboscooper Toy Robot Is WALL-E With a Different Name

Designing new toy robots is hard...unless you have a major motion picture to base them on. WowWee produces award winning robots for work and...

Taking a Ride Inside RoboDynamics TiLR Tele-Robot (video)

My job has its perks and one of the best is test driving robots. I recently had a chance to login to a TiLR,...

Gapminder Makes Statistics Awesome – Now On Your Desktop (video)

It's probably the experimental physicist in me speaking, but there are few things I find sexier than a good graph. In that sense the...

App Lets You Make a Phone Call With Your Mind (Video)

And you thought having a touch screen was cool. ThinkContacts is a new smart phone app under development that uses your brainwaves to...

Robot Culture: Home-made R2D2 Droids from Star Wars

There are few geek-gasms as powerful as those that are created when a home made R2D2 Droid rolls into a comic-con. There's something about...

Who Owns You? 20% of the Genes in Your Body are Patented

Here’s a disconcerting thought: for the past thirty years, genes have been patentable. And we’re not just talking genetically modified corn – your genes,...

Check Out Kawada’s Humanoid Walking HRP-2 Robot (video)

Kawada's HRP-2 'Promet' robot has conquered its most diabolical nemesis: foam mats. The humanoid bipedal robot recently demonstrated its walking prowess by autonomously traversing...

We Live in a Jungle of Artificial Intelligence that will Spawn Sentience

You don't have a flying car, jetpack, or ray gun, but this is still the future. How do I know? Because we're all surrounded...

This Fall, Don’t Forget Your DNA on Your Way to College

Thanks to new programs at UC-Berkeley and Stanford University, some students around the country have a new item to add to their back to...

Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Your Phone Does. Geo-Tracking Heats Up.

Call it LoJack for your loved ones. Multiple smart phone developers have hit upon the same idea: use the GPS in phones to allow...

Tan Le Demos Headset That Reads Brainwaves (video)

Tan Le isn't just interested in reading your mind, she wants to have fun while doing it. Le is one of the founders of...

Sirtuins Can Prevent Alzheimer’s…In Mice. Good News for Resveratrol?

New research from MIT shows that sirtuins may be able to prevent or suppress Alzheimer's Disease. Sirtuins are a class of proteins which may...

Solar Roadways: Crackpot Idea or Ingenious Concept?

Scott and Julie Brusaw have a way of solving the energy crisis, it just involves you driving on glass. The Brusaws are the founders...

Shadow’s Robot Hand is Now Using the Robot Operating System

Shadow Robot Company has joined the ranks of Willow Garage, iRobot, and many other robot developers which have some of their hardware running the...

Robot With Artificial Gut Eats Waste For Electrical Power (video)

The Matrix had it all wrong. Robots won't turn our bodies into batteries. No, no. no...they'll use our poop. The Bristol Robotics Laboratory has...

Exercise Boosts Your Brain – Here’s How

We all know exercise is your best shot at having a healthy heart, a strong immune system, and maybe even a 100th birthday party....
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Robot Guide Premiers in Shopping Mall in Spain (video)

The REEM-H1 is the kind of robot guide your grandma would love, it escorts you where you need to go and will...

Unleashing the Power of the Savant Brain in All of Us

What if you had perfect pitch, a photographic memory, and astounding artistic ability? Allan Snyder thinks you already do. Snyder is the director of...

Robot Vans Drive, Driverless, from Italy to China (Video)

It’s the perfect sci-fi fantasy: climb into your car, set it to autopilot, then just lean back and enjoy your morning coffee as you’re...

Arteriocyte Produces Artificial Blood, Seeks FDA Approval

In the wildly popular HBO show “True Blood”, the creation of synthetic blood allows vampires to join the human society as they no longer...

Touch Bionics Gives an 18-Year-Old Amputee His Hand Back (Video)

The Today Show recently ran a feature on an 18-year-old who was recently outfitted with ProDigits, the partial hand prosthesis developed by Touch Bionics....

Mind-Controlled Artificial Arm Begins the First Human Testing

The world’s first human testing of a mind-controlled artificial limb is ready to begin. A joint project between the Pentagon and Johns Hopkins...

Making the Modern Do-It-Yourself Biology Laboratory (video)

There was a time when only scientists used computers.  Now systems that are thousands of times more powerful are available to nearly everyone. Bio-technology...

Geron Restarts Embryonic Stem Cell Clinical Trials for Spinal Cord Injury

Almost a year after the FDA halted the study, Geron's clinical trial for a human embryonic stem cell (hESC) therapy for spinal cord injury...

Robot Soccer Keeps Getting Better – RoboCup 2010 in Singapore (video)

"The ultimate goal of the RoboCup project is by 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that can win against the human...

Cloning Extinct Species: How Close Are We?

For as long as life has been a feature of this planet, natural selection has been wiping out species with subpar adaptive strategies. ...

A-Star’s Social Robots Make a Splash in Singapore (Video)

What if your iPhone suddenly sprouted arms and started speaking? You'd end up with something close to A-Star's newest line of social robots....

Open Science Summit 2010 – Thursday Review

Over the next few days, Singularity Hub will be bringing exclusive coverage of the Open Science Summit 2010 taking place in Berkeley, CA this...

Exclusive: I Used BlindType, Virtual Keyboard of the Future

Typing on the iPhone is like squeezing sausages into a soda can - you can get it to work, but it's not pretty. BlindType...

Cancer Rates in the US Continue to Drop, ACS Reports

The annual report from the American Cancer Society shows that US cancer death rates continue to decline in both men and women. Since...

DNA Factory Plans to Open Within 6 Months

Good news for all you aspiring Craig Venters out there. Before the end of the year, synthetic biologists will have a stocked factory...

More Crowd-Pleasing Videos of Dynamic Art Projected Onto Buildings

Is the office building across the street looking a little blasé? High powered projectors can turn the side of any structure into a huge...

Army’s HULC Exoskeleton To Test at End of 2010, Hints at Industrial/Medical Uses

The problem with military technology is that people like to use it to fight wars. Lockheed Martin recently announced in a press release that...

The Future of Maps: 3D, Realtime, and Totally Personalized

What's the feature on my iPhone that I use the most? It's not games, nor music, nor texting...not even calling. The tool I use...

Dextre Robot On Space Station Almost Ready For Duty

"The most sophisticated robot every built...is a handyman." ---Canadian Space Agency After more than two years, the International Space Station is very close to bringing...

Robot Learns How to Flip Pancakes…but Not on the First Try (video)

One day robots will sell like hotcakes...especially if they can make you hotcakes. Scientists from the Italian Institute of Technology have successfully taught a...

Watching Genetically Engineered Cells Kill Cancer In Real Time

What if you could not only beat cancer, but watch your body do it? Researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center are using...

Video of Navy Laser Shooting Unmanned Drone Out of the Sky

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Supe---ZZZT! Well, whatever it was, it's fried now. The US Navy recently...
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