Moravec‘s Paradox

Researchers have demonstrated bio-integration of organic electrochemical neurons with cells of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) to induce lobe closure upon input stimuli. Their results may have implications for the future development of brain-machine interfaces and soft robotics. The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula). Image credit: Naokivin1978. “Neuromorphic bioinspired electronic devices…

Researchers from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have created an artificial intelligence tool to help identify hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiac amyloidosis.   Their findings, outlined in a study published in JAMA Cardiology, could make it easier to detect and treat heart disease.   "These two heart conditions are challenging…

Brains contain maps of the bodies they inhabit, with neurons dedicated to the perception or control of particular parts—and research suggests there may be quite a bit of wiggle room in that representation. In 2016 scientists set up an experiment that made subjects fleetingly feel like they had a sixth…

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What do birds get up to at night? It was a simple question that puzzled scientists for hundreds of years. There were wild theories that birds went underwater, or immersed themselves in mud. In the 19th century, a German stork was found with an African spear through its neck, providing…

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Baroness rides a tanked-up Megatron in a new Hasbro release.Image: Hasbro Though Hasbro has yet to let the incredibly malleable world of Transformers really shine on the big screen, the opposite is the case on toy shelves. We’ve seen Transformers figures mash-up with Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Top Gun,…

Live now and running for five weeks. Hot on the heels of last week's combat-focussed new Sentinel update, No Man's Sky is ready to embark on its latest limned-time Expedition event - this one offering a "gentle-paced" jaunt giving players the chance to unlock their own quadrupedal robotic companion. Expeditions, if…

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Using an image of a destination as reference, in this case, the house at the other side of the field, and "priors" about how to navigate overland on various kinds of terrain, gathered from hours of filmed video, an unmanned vehicle navigates nearly two miles on its own to reach…