ROBOTICS
San Francisco Considers Ban on Sidewalk Delivery Robots
Steven Musil | CNET
"San Francisco is considering legislation that would put the brakes on delivery robots rolling...
Everything is changing again. But this time, it’s happening faster.
In his talk at Singularity University’s Exponential Manufacturing Summit in Boston, Deloitte’s Digital Transformation Leader...
Singularity Hub is on the ground this week at Singularity University’s Exponential Manufacturing Summit in Boston.
At the summit, executives, makers, entrepreneurs, and policy leaders...
Bioprinting new organs and tissues could make transplants available and affordable for all, but is still decades away. In the meantime, scientists have re-purposed...
Brain balls sound like something straight out of a Tim Burton movie: starting as stem cells harvested from patients, they eventually develop into masses...
Technology’s role in modern healthcare is growing. Artificial intelligence is being used for mental health, and smartphones can use add-ons to do things we...
TRANSPORTATION
Have Scientists Discovered the Cure for Potholes?
Angela Chen | The Verge
"Self-healing asphalt has been tested on 12 different roads in the Netherlands, and...
To Dr. Mark Gomelsky, a professor at the University of Wyoming, genetically engineered therapeutic cells are like troops on a mission.
The first act is...
Will artificial intelligence “destroy humanity?” Probably not.
But I am concerned that AI and robotics will massively impact the future of work.
McKinsey & Co. predicts...
AUTOMATION
Veo Robotics Gives Industrial Robots a Sixth Sense for Safely Working Around People
Devin Coldewey | TechCrunch
"Veo’s system uses a set of four depth-sensing cameras...
Piloting your drone aircraft through an intricate, Star Wars-like obstacle course or ramming an enemy to the ground in a dogfight—sounds slightly like science...
Written speculation about life beyond the confines of Earth dates back thousands of years, to the time of the Greek philosophers Epicurus and Democritus....
In a few hundred years, doctors will scan their patient with a handheld device called a Tricorder to diagnose virtually any ailment. That’s according...
Like the fiber optic cables that connect landline phones, the long branches of brain cells transmit information from one neuron to the next.
Unlike phone...
Although food scientists often explore new technologies to reduce the percentage of hungry people in the world today, many also have future-oriented mindsets and...
BRAIN
Facebook Launches "Moon Shot" Effort to Decode Speech Direct From the Brain
Larry Greenemeier | Scientific American
"If all goes according to plan—and that’s a big...
Among modern medicine's achievements, one of the most dramatic has been a steep reduction in infant mortality. Yet, even today, there are exceptions. Babies born...
I did a quick Twitter poll asking which technology companies you think are the most innovative today. The options were:
Amazon
Google
Facebook
Tesla
(Note:...
Even since Alexander Fleming stumbled across penicillin—the first antibiotic drug—scientists knew our fight with evolution was on.
Most antibiotics work by blocking biological processes that...
VIRTUAL REALITY
Facebook's Bizarre VR App Is Exactly Why Zuck Bought Oculus
Peter Rubin | WIRED
"When you launch Spaces from within your Oculus Rift headset, though,...
Two basic types of encryption schemes are used on the internet today. One, known as symmetric-key cryptography, follows the same pattern that people have...
Like islands jutting out of a smooth ocean surface, dreams puncture our sleep with disjointed episodes of consciousness. How states of awareness emerge from...
Attempts to distill the essence of “selfhood” have occupied philosophers for centuries. Consensus has been fleeting at best, but is likely to get even...
TRANSPORTATION
Zunum's Hybrid Jet Could Finally Make Electric Flight a Reality
Eric Adams | WIRED
"As crazy as it sounds, the aviation industry finds itself fascinated by...
Much of the groundbreaking AI research of recent decades originated in Canada, but it’s largely Silicon Valley that’s brought it into the real world....
