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Jul 18, 2017
‘Suicidal’ security robot ‘drowned itself’ at Washington office
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, security, transportation
July 18 (UPI) — Officials at a Washington, D.C., office building patrolled by a security robot they are investigating after workers reported the robot “drowned itself.”
MRP Realty announced last week there was a “new sheriff in town,” namely a K5 security robot developed by Silicon Valley startup Knightscope, but Bilal Farooqui, a worker at the office complex, tweeted a photo Monday revealing the mechanical guard had met with a watery end.
“Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself,” Farooqui wrote alongside an image of the robot horizontal inside a fountain. “We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots.”
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Jul 18, 2017
AgeMeter: Physiological Biomarkers to Determine Functional Age
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Today Lifespan.io / Life Extension Advocacy Foundation has launched the fifth research project since we began 1.5 years ago. We are working with the Centers for Age Control Inc who plan to develop a multiple aging biomarker system to aid clinical research, healthcare providers and enthusiasts.
For more details check out the press release here: http://www.leafscience.org/introducing-agemeter/
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Jul 18, 2017
NASA’s Kepler Finds Exoplanets Potentially Capable of Extraterrestrial Life
Posted by Yugal Agrawal in category: alien life
Jul 18, 2017
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Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: space, transportation
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Jul 18, 2017
Altering Microglia Types to Combat Degenerative Eye Diseases
Posted by Steve Hill in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
Tweaking the types of microglia to favour a healing type over an inflammatory type has been the focus of a number of recent studies. This time the tremedous regenerative ability of zebrafish is the focus of research.
The evidence that the immune system, and in particular the various types of tissue resident macrophages play an important role in the regeneration of tissue continues to mount up.
The difference in the behaviour of these macrophages varies between species and may significantly contribute to the differences in regenerative capacity observed between slow regenerative species like mice and humans and species capable of robust rejuvenation such as salamanders and zebrafish. The latter two species being able to regenerate lost limbs and organs and the former two being far more limited.
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Jul 18, 2017
Neural stem cells steered by electric fields can repair brain damage
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience
Electric fields can be used to guide transplanted human neural stem cells — cells that can develop into various brain tissues — to repair brain damage in specific areas of the brain, scientists at the University of California, Davis have discovered.
It’s well known that electric fields can locally guide wound healing. Damaged tissues generate weak electric fields, and research by UC Davis Professor Min Zhao at the School of Medicine’s Institute for Regenerative Cures has previously shown how these electric fields can attract cells into wounds to heal them.
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Jul 18, 2017
Liquid Metal Circuits and Atomic Microchips Could Be the Future of Electronics
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, particle physics
Jul 18, 2017
Japan’s private sector sets its sights on the moon
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: business, space travel
TOKYO There is a new race to the moon, and it is the private sector — not governments — that is providing the runners. And unlike last time, Japan is in the thick of the action. If all goes as planned, a Japanese rover will soon be cruising across the lunar landscape for the first time ever.
The race is sponsored by the Google Lunar XPRIZE, a contest for privately funded teams to be the first to land a rover on the surface of the moon, have it travel 500 meters, and transmit high-definition video and images back to Earth. The winner receives $20 million — plus bragging rights. The contest aims to encourage the continuous exploration of the moon through privately led technologies and businesses.
Team Hakuto, as the Japanese effort is called, is a collaborative effort among more than 30 companies, including many startups as well as several established players. The team’s rover, dubbed the Sorato, represents a distillation of Japanese knowledge, with materials, technologies and know-how contributed by a diverse lineup of companies.
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