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…
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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…
Improving Tesla’s self-driving AI using virtual worlds
This is a great little video from the Two Minute Papers channel. There’s a lot going on inside the video, so I’d like to first…
Mining the moon with a robot swarm
Like minecraft! But in real-life! In space! This is an interesting article briefly talking about the University of Arizona kicking off a project to advance…
Robots that can dance: part II
Hyundai has acquired Boston Dynamics, so here’s a new promo video featuring more awesome dancing robots. I find the fluidity of the motion so impressive…
World’s first 3D printed steel bridge installed in Amsterdam
Printed over six months using Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAC), four robots welded 1,100 kilometres of stainless steel wire layer by later into a 4.5…
Fast Food of the Future
Taco Bell is re-imagining their fast food outlets in response to customer demand shifting from sit-down dining to collect & drive-through orders. As reported by…