Magnetic slime + magnets = liquid robots!
A fast and fun look at some interesting new developments to create liquid ‘robots’ with new and useful capabilities. The applications seem particularly useful in…
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Scientists develop a pig translator AI to understand the emotions of pigs from their grunts
Strange, but apparently true! Several news outlets are reporting that an AI has been developed that can tell if a pig is feeling positive or…
Drone aircraft to fly cargo cheaper and with less emissions than a Boeing 747
As reported at SingularityHub, a new startup Nautilus has secured orders of over 440(!) of its drone ‘blended wing’ aircraft that can move 60% more…
US startup Formic will rent you a robot for less than a person’s minimum wage
The popular press has been saying ‘the robots are coming’ for a while now. Have they now started to arrive? Formic is a US-based startup…
SpaceX to launch South African nanosatellite constellation on 13 Jan at 17h25
South Africa is building a new Maritime Domain Awareness Satellite (MDASat) constellation to track ship movements at sea, with 3 locally developed CubeSats to launch…
A self-driving Farm Robot kills 100,000 weeds an hour with lasers instead of chemicals
From the article on Forbes: “The nutrient content of our vegetables is down 40% over the last two decades and our soil health is suffering…
First-of-its-kind commercial scale ‘lab-grown’ meat facility being built in San Francisco
Something I’ve personally been excited about for a while now is the future of lab-grown, or cultivated meat as it is becoming known. The San…
A ‘functional cure’ for HIV, using CRISPR gene-editing, to enter human trials
Approval has been given by America’s Food and Drug Administration for Excision Biotherapeutics to begin human trials of an intravenous treatment to ‘functionally cure’ HIV…
Samsung and Harvard University want to copy->paste the brain onto a chip 😲
As a world leader in 3-dimensional solid state memory chip technology, Samsung and Harvard University have described a future vision in which a ‘neuromorphic chip’…
Automate your veggie garden with the FarmBot
The FarmBot launched in 2016, so is not exactly new, but might be new-to-you which makes it just as much fun! I was, and still…