The Chariot mobility device

From medGadget:

As you can see in the clip, movement of the device is controlled through subtle movements of the hips and lower torso by sensing pressure changes and weight balance shifting….

CB2 – first true member of the robo-species?

From PhysOrg:

Below the soft silicon skin of one of Japan’s most sophisticated robots, processors record and evaluate information. The 130-cm (four-foot, four-inch) humanoid is…

CB2 – first true member of the robo-species?

Science recruits weak AIs to finish it’s homework

From WIRED:

In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum’s swings.

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Science recruits weak AIs to finish it’s homework

warning: you may be a terrorist

(ganked from the horrible walled garden of Facebook)

warning: you may be a terrorist

Regrowing muscles one step closer

From WIRED:

The first phase of the Pentagon’s plan to regrow soldiers’ limbs is complete; scientists managed to turn human skin into the equivalent of a blastema — a mass of…

Regrowing muscles one step closer

The Proteus body monitoring platform

From SingularityHub:

Proteus has designed a platform for body monitoring, called Raisin, which measures when and if a patient takes their medication, and also measures how various bodily…

The Proteus body monitoring platform