Andrew J. O'Keefe II
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Ray Kurzweil Outlines the Coming Biomedical Revolution [Video]
Will we live longer lives in the future? According to Ray Kurzweil, it's only a matter of time until technology begins successfully tackling age-related disease—and life expectancy grows longer and longer. At some point,...
New Robot Stingray Is Part Biological — It’s Powered by Living Heart Cells
Researchers at Harvard University have created a biohybrid stingray. No larger than the average coin, the ray contains both biological and artificial parts—rat heart cells grown on a silicon mold fitted over a 3D...
Watch These Tiny Living Creatures Play Microscopic Pac-Man
Ever wondered what Pac-Man in real life would look like? Well, here's your chance.
In collaboration with University College of Southeast Norway, filmmaker Adam Bartley captured a “real-life” version of the popular 80s video game—under...
Watch This Amazing 3D Bioprinter Make Artificial Bones From Scratch
If 3D printing is already impacting manufacturing today, what breakthroughs could bioprinting — or printing any mix of organic and inorganic materials — achieve tomorrow? In a recent video, a basic prototype of the...
See What Happens When Killer Robots Are Born in a Car Factory
Could you imagine a robot takeover beginning anywhere other than a major automobile factory? It only makes sense—car plants are already some of the most automated, robot-packed spots on the planet.
"ANA" is a recent...
Staying Human in the Machine Age: An Interview With Douglas Rushkoff
At the dawn of the internet Douglas Rushkoff wrote the book Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace. A whirlwind tour through the lens of various web subcultures, Cyberia lay the philosophical foundation for...
Watch a Robot Show How Much You Suck at Foosball
The day foosball changes forever may be right around the corner.
Students and faculty at Brigham Young University just created an AI-assisted robotic foosball table. Initially intended to keep up with human players, the machine...
‘Hyper-Reality’ Is a Psychedelic Glimpse of Our Future on Digital Overload
If you could choose between a countless number of realities — would you choose this one?
The visceral experience of hopping between and mixing digital and physical worlds is beautifully depicted in a new...
New Digital Face Manipulation Means You Can’t Trust Video Anymore
What if you could alter a video of anyone to emulate facial and mouth movements that never existed in the source video—by yourself, at home, using a cheap webcam?
Meet Face2Face. Using RGB input...
How Microfactories Can Bring Iterative Manufacturing to the Masses
Humans manufacture a mind-numbing amount of stuff each year—ever wonder how we do it?
In the past 100 or more years, it’s been all about economies of scale. This means you should make a lot of...
Human-Like Robot Interviewed at SXSW—It’s Here to Help and Destroy [Video]
Meet Sophia, a new human-like robot exhibited by Hanson Robotics at the SXSW festival. Sophia has a variety of features that make interactions with a human appear ordinary.
Employing a number of facial expressions and...
See a Vision of the Jobless Future in This Beautiful Short Film
What would a fully automated future without jobs look like?
The Guardian recently released an animated short set in a time when machines dominate the workforce. The story follows the last human worker going...
