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mindblowingscience: In a First, a Prosthetic Limb Can Sense Temperature Like a Living Hand Amputees’ hopes to experience the feeling of human touch using their prosthetics are becoming closer to reality. Now, new technology is allowing them to feel temperature—even in limbs that are no longer part of their bodies. For the first time, a functional artificial limb has been fitted with fingertip sensors that allow an ordinary prosthetic hand to sense and respond to temperature just as a living hand does. The device provides a realistic sense of hot and cold in the missing “phantom” hand by del ..read more
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Mainstream sci-fi loves to insist on having drab looking machines as tools of war and oppression…
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chromaherder: Mainstream sci-fi loves to insist on having drab looking machines as tools of war and oppression almost as a self fulfilling prophecy. But what if, hear me out, we started considering a future with more humane AI and healthier relations to different modes of intelligence (ie. the entire non-human being population of Earth ..read more
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SENSTER
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thursdayisbetterthanfriday: SENSTER Artist: Edward Ihnatowicz Original Year: 1968 Reconstruction: 2017 - Zachęta exhibition Video: ArtDone Artwork in the age of Cybernetics Edward Ihnatowicz was an artist whose interest in finding ways to emulate animal movement led him to become a pioneer of robotic art. Ihnatowicz was known for filming animals, documenting how they responded and moved, which led him to think about creating sculptures that behaved like living creatures. Senster marked the pinnacle of Ihnatowicz’s achievements and is remembered today as a pioneering piece of technology-base ..read more
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This is so on the nose
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earhartsease: this is so on the nose [ID: post by The Garantine quoting the start of a wikipedia article Very tired of hearing about what the intentions are. If a system constantly produces a different outcome than the one it is “intended” for then it’s perfectly reasonable to assume the actual intention is the outcome it continues to produce. beginning of quoted article below reads as follows: The purpose of a system is what it does The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a systems thinking heuristic coined by Stafford Beer, who observed that there is “no point in claiming ..read more
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By Evan Ackerman 29 Jan 2024
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Amazon’s Acquisition of iRobot Falls Through By Evan Ackerman 29 Jan 2024 Citing “no path to regulatory approval in the European Union,” Amazon and iRobot have announced the termination of an acquisition deal first announced in August of 2022 that would have made iRobot a part of Amazon and valued the robotics company at US $1.4 billion. The European Commission released a statement today that explained some of its concerns, which to be fair, seem like reasonable things to be concerned about: Our in-depth investigation preliminarily showed that the acquisition of iRobot would have enabled Amaz ..read more
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN
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NASA Ingenuity helicopter mission on Mars ends after three years | CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN After completing 72 historic flights on Mars over three years, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to operate and fly on another world, lifting off on April 19, 2021. Imagery and data returned to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, showed that one or more of the chopper’s carbon fiber rotor blades was damaged while landing during its final flight this month. The team determined that the helico ..read more
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By Bob Yirka , Tech Xplore
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2M ago
Novel snake-like robot 3D prints its own body to grow longer by Bob Yirka , Tech Xplore A trio of soft robotics researchers at Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, in Italy, working with a colleague from the University of Montpellier, in France, has developed a unique type of robot that 3D prints its own body as a means to grow longer. In their paper published in the journal Science Robotics, the group describes how they created their robot and the possible uses for it. The robot is shaped like a snake and has a head that spins. As the head spins, it creates more body mass behind it usi ..read more
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This is an interesting perspective that give me something to think about.
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The Man Who Coined The Word “Robot” Defends Himself This is an interesting perspective that give me something to think about. This article by Evan Ackerman, (January 16, 2024), cites an article written June 9, 1935, by Karel Čapek himself, the author of the play “R.U.R.” or “Rossum’s Universal Robots”, that introduced the word robot to the modern lexicon where the author states that his invention was intended to be chemical in nature and not mechanical: Karel Čapek, writing in the third person, states: “The author of the robots appeals to the fact that he must know the most about it: and ther ..read more
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By Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN)
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Laser-controlled liquid metals herald new era for soft robotics by Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) Researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ) are developing new 4D printing technology that produces shape-shifting liquid metals for soft robotics. 4D printing is an extension of 3D printing, where solid objects are created using materials that can change shape when exposed to certain stimuli like heat, water or light. At UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), researchers are printing 4D structures using new liquid metal poly ..read more
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A GPT-driven Robot Chemist Designs, Plans, and Performs Complex Experiments - All by Itself!
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A GPT-driven Robot Chemist Designs, Plans, and Performs Complex Experiments - All by Itself!: cbirt: Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University have unveiled a breakthrough artificial intelligence system called Coscientist that can independently design and execute complex chemistry experiments at the touch of a button. The system aims to accelerate discoveries across scientific domains by leveraging the raw reasoning power of models like GPT-4. Coscientist combines natural language processing prowess with tools enabling web search, documentation query, code execution, and links to automation in ..read more
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