Michele Furlan

Founder President

Cybernetic plants

2018-12-05 09:57:18

First attempt by the MIT Media Lab to combine machines with plants in order to "enhance" the plant with mobility. In this nice experiment, the plant's electrochemical signals are detected by a robot, which then moves the plants where it "wants" to go. Original article: http://www.harpreetsareen.com/pages/projects/elowan.html

Michele Furlan

Founder President

Another field test for quadrupedal robots

2018-11-28 12:49:44

Another successful field for quadrupedal robots. This time not from Boston Dynamics but from a competitor, ANYbotics. The robot spent a week mapping an offshore power distribution platform. Original article: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/north-sea-deployment-shows-how-quadruped-robots-can-be-commercially-useful

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Michele Furlan

Founder President

Genetic engineering on humans: first genome-edited baby

2018-11-27 07:51:34

Genetic engineering is currently living a golden age. Since the discovery of the CRISP -Cas9 editing tool, scientists have been able to manipulate the expression of specific genes with increasing accuracy and reliability. Now Chinese scientists claimed to have used this technology on embryos to disable the CCR5 gene, which seems to allow HIV to spread across cell. The result? A couple of twin girls who can be potentially immune from HIV (NB: potentially). The step from curing genetic diseases to increase humans may not be that far away. Original article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07545-0

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