Guy spots super-rare ‘living fossil’ a second time — 30 years later
By Micheal Franco Is this the rarest creature on Earth? Peter Ward What are the chances of finding a super-rare
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This Smart Helmet Gives You Eyes in the Back of Your Head
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA (Reuters) – For Marcus Weller the idea started off with an accident. He was riding a motorcycle
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Exclusive VFX Breakdown
Beautifully crafted CG models shown in every incredible detail,.. hands up to all the people who have work for numerous
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Face-tracking Software Lets You Make Anyone Say Anything in Real Time
Project Page: http://www.graphics.stanford.edu/~nie… You know how they say, “Show me pictures or video, or it didn’t happen”? Well, the days
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Paraplegics are Learning to Walk again with VR
The chances of recovery for paraplegic patients were once considered nearly nil. But in 2014, 29-year-old Juliano Pinto, who faced
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Boston Dynamics’ Latest Robot Dog is Slightly Less Terrifying
Robot maker Boston Dynamics, now owned by Japanese telecom and tech giant SoftBank, just published a short YouTube clip featuring
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Team of Robotic Dogs Pull Massive Diesel Truck
It only takes 10 Spotpower (SP) to haul a truck across the Boston Dynamics parking lot (~1 degree uphill, truck
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YouTube Gaming is a great reminder of everything YouTube already does
By Adi Robertson gaming.youtube.com YouTube is already a big player in live video. YouTube is already a big player in
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The Lumberjack Of The Future
This terrifying logging machine looks like something from a sci-fi movie.
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This Robot Can Solve A Rubik’s Cube In One Second
Software engineers Jay Flatland and Paul Rose built this remarkable machine that can solve Rubik’s Cubes faster than you can
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This Freaky Baby Could Be the Future of AI. Watch It in Action
Mark Sagar started his career by building medical simulations of body parts. He took those skills and went into CGI,
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The Cyborg Beetles Designed to Save Human Lives
In the future, we may have remote-controlled insects to reach places humans cannot. At least that’s what Dr. Hirotaka Sato,
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The Third Thumb
The Third Thumb investigates the relationship between the body and prosthetic technology in new ways. It is part tool, part
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This AI generates Ultra-Realistic Fashion Models from Head to Toe
You’ve already seen how AI can be used to generate eerily realistic images of human faces, food, and even Airbnb
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A scary-accurate 3D-printed action figure is your new favorite selfie
3D printing is revolutionizing the way we create all types of objects — including mini versions of ourselves. German company
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This Old Fuselage Gets Transformed Into A Stunning Interstellar Light Show
by PlayMID, is an immersive light and sound installation inside a plane. This video is a document of the set-up
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A drone that can fly, float and dive underwater
Project Website: http://www.LoonCopter.com Video of the Loon Copter for the 2016 Drones for Good Competition. The Loon Copter was selected
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Microsoft Has Created Star Wars-Style Holographic Communication
holoportation is a new type of 3D capture technology that allows high quality 3D models of people to be reconstructed,
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The iCub Humanoid Robot Project
the iCub™ (I as in “I robot”, Cub as in the man-cub from Kipling’s Jungle Book), has been specifically designed
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Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Robot Does Backflips
ATLAS, THE HULKING humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics, now does backflips. I’ll repeat that. It’s a hulking humanoid that does
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Robots that can Adapt like Animals
The Intelligent Trial and Error Algorithm introduced in the paper ‘Robots that can adapt like animals’the video shows two different
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Urine Made Sparkling Clean with New Bio-Filter
Right now, astronauts on the International Space Station use a carbon-based filter to purify water extracted from urine. ~Discovery News
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Project Ara: Reinventing the smartphone with building blocks
Project Ara is the codename for an initiative that aims to develop an open hardware platform for creating highly modular
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These 2 Robot Chefs Will Make You Ramen
Koya and Kona, a pair of robotic arms, are the top chefs at Toyako Ramen in China. One is in
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Google Cardboard Plastic
The future is clear. Experience actual reality with Google Cardboard Plastic.
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This Ultra-Precise Drawing Robot it the Most Mesmerizing Thing You’ll See Today
Ever wanted a robot that can draw pictures, forge signatures, and take care of all those handwritten wedding invitations you’ve
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This AI Bot Messes With Your Email Scammers
Chatbots. They’re usually a waste of your time, so why not have them waste someone else’s instead? Better yet: why
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Hummingbird Robots: Naturally Intriguing
What can fly like a bird and hover like an insect? Your friendly neighborhood hummingbird. If drones had this capability,
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Heart in a box’ keeps beating until transplanted
By Amir Toor A device that reanimates organs taken from dead patients has shown promise in heart transplant surgeries, though
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Introducing the Lily Camera
Lily is the world’s first throw-and-shoot camera. It lets anyone create cinematic footage previously reserved for professional filmmakers. Lily is
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Cockroach robots to the rescue!
Not only can they squish themselves to get into one-tenth-of-an-inch crevices, but once inside they can run at high speed
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Israeli Technology is Everywhere
What makes countries innovative? Why does Israel have more startups than anywhere outside Silicon Valley?
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Parkour Robot Can Do Wall Jumps
SALTO the robot uses power modulation to store up energy before leaping into action. It uses wall jumps and back
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Amazing Flying Robots
From the Author: At the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., Festo, a German industrial automation company, brought along
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Samsung’s AI Animates Paintings and Photos
Researchers from Samsung’s AI Centre located in Moscow have created a new system that can transform still facial images into
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BB-8 App-Enabled Droid || Built by Sphero
Meet BB-8™ – the app-enabled Droid™ that’s as authentic as it is advanced. BB-8 has something unlike any other robot
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BUDDY : Your Family’s Companion Robot
Today, crowdfunding begins for BUDDY, the world’s first affordable companion robot. BUDDY’S campaign seeks to raise $100,000 and will last
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VR Just Got Sexy With This Long-Distance Sex Toy
Now you can be with your partner without really being with your partner. Isn’t technology great?
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OLO – The First Smartphone 3D Printer
The 3D printing tech is getting more mainstream than ever. If ten years ago 3D printing for consumers was a
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Sisyphus – The Kinetic Sand Drawing Table
What music brings to your ears, Sisyphus brings to your eyes. Kinetic art, technology and design merged in stunning meditative
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Exoskeletons
Exoskeletons have been around for decades, both in real life and in science fiction. But the latest wave of exoskeletons
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AI Turns Sketches into Photorealistic Images
A novice painter might set brush to canvas aiming to create a stunning sunset landscape — craggy, snow-covered peaks reflected
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Now you see it, now you don’t: invisibility cloak nears reality
Light reflects off the cloak (red arrows) as if it were reflecting off a flat mirror in this 3D illustration
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YouTube plans to add movies and TV shows to subscription service
The Alphabet Inc. property has reportedly begun talking to studios. When YouTube took the wraps off its Red subscription service,
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Nissan “Intelligent Parking Chair”
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has announced the first “Intelligent Parking Chair,” a concept inspired by its intelligent park assist technology
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Man Moves Paralyzed Hand With His Own Thoughts
The Nerve Bypass (COLUMBUS, Ohio) June 2014 — A man in Ohio has become the first patient ever to move
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Noise Canceling Device
Muzo is the first acoustic device that applies Anti-Vibration Technology for smooth surface. This Exclusive Technology prevents objects from vibrating
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Nvidia’s New AI Creates Disturbingly Convincing Fake Videos
Anyone worried about the ability of artificial intelligences (AI) to mimic reality is likely to be concerned by Nvidia’s latest
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Meet the man who made movie explosions look cooler
By Danny Gallagher This moment from the DreamWorks picture “Monsters vs. Aliens” was made possible by a special simulation model
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10 Scientific Breakthroughs That Will Change The World
Prepare for your minds to be blown as we showcase 10 future scientific breakthroughs that are going to change your
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Watch Google’s Latest Robot Deftly Deal With Snowy Trail, Abusive Co-Worker
A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is
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Magic Leap’s Augmented Reality Demo
Welcome to a new way to start your day. Shot directly through Magic Leap technology on April 8, 2016 without
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ili™ Wearable Translator
ili is a wearable translator that instantly translates your words. The device can be used anywhere, anytime without being connected
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This LED Sculpture Projects Your Selfies
The sculpture is a fourteen-foot, 3-D universal human head made from ribbons of ultra-bright, LED screens. In the back of
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Forget Skype and Facetime, THIS Is The Future Of Communication!
The technology around communication is constantly evolving — I can still remember when cellphones looked like ridiculously large play toys.
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Terrafugia Releases New Driverless Flying Car (Animation)
Terrafugia is excited to premier the new Outer Mold Line for the TF-X™, Terrafugia’s vision for the future of personal
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Audioshield Gets First VR Gameplay Footage
Audioshield is a rhythm action game for virtual reality that harvests your own music library. Drawing on Audiosurf 2’s music
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Experience the TruLaser Cell 3000 in Action
With the TruLaser Cell 3000, TRUMPF offers something that is so far unique: a highly flexible 5-axis laser machine with
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Introducing Handle
Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5 ft tall, travels at 9 mph and jumps 4 feet vertically. It
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The Record Breaking Robot that Teaches Humans How to Play Table Tennis
Kicking off today, our new weekly video series Meet the Record Breakers – Japan Tour shines a spotlight on some
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NASA, Google Reveal Quantum Computing
In an experiment, a quantum computer outperformed a conventional machine by 100 million times. The black box sitting at the
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Playing With Shapes in Virtual Reality is More Fun
Create and interact with shapes, manipulate gravity and more in this all-new VR experience built for Leap Motion Orion. Blocks
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Interactive Table Tennis Trainer
The basic idea of my bachelor thesis was to track the ping pong ball in realtime to create data visualisations
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Catching a Real Ball in Virtual Reality
From the Author: We present a system enabling users to accurately catch a real ball while immersed in a virtual
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Top 7 Tech Breakthroughs Of 2017
Whatever else happened, some amazing medical breakthroughs were made this year. Futurism’s mission is to empower our readers and drive
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Microsoft’s New Hololens Demo
Microsoft just blew us (and some virtual robots) away with a demo of its HoloLens ‘mixed reality’ gaming system. The
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Hacker Who Built a Self-Driving Car… in His Garage
George Hotz, the first person to hack the iPhone, says he built a self-driving car in a month. How did
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First Look at Liquids Getting Vaporized By the World’s Brightest X-ray Laser
Researchers have recorded the first movies of liquids getting vaporized by SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), the world’s brightest
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The First Motorized Carry-On Bag
MODOBAG is the world’s first motorized, smart and connected carry-on that gets savvy travelers, tech enthusiasts and urban day-trippers to
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MIT Students Invented a Robotic Kitchen that Could Revolutionize Fast Food
First, you order a meal using a smartphone app or the touch screen next to the machine. The bot currently
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Quantum batteries
As mobile devices get more powerful, they also burn throughbatteries at an ever increasing rate. Capacities have been inching upward
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Robot arm scoops goop spills like magic
The Switl robot picker-upper from Japan’s Furukawa Kikou can scrape up your yucky mayonnaise-ketchup stains like nobody’s business. Got messy
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Turn your phone into a Jedi weapon with Lightsaber Escape
Warning: what you are about to read might completely ruin your productivity for the day. If you’re like me, it’s
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Zootopia’s Fur Technology
The team comprising directors, engineers and animators spent about eight months studying animals. They went to San Diego’s Safari Park,
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Elevated Bus That Drives Above Traffic Jams
It’s known as the Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) and it could very well be the future of public transport. It’s
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Bionicopter Mimics Dragonfly Flight
Festo, the german automation company, recently unveiled its latest creation: BionicOpter, a robotic dragonfly. This new robot emulates the complex flight technique of
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The Omnicopter A Futuristic Drone
The multirotor vehicle used in the demonstration is an omni-directional eight-rotor vehicle. From the Author: We have developed a computationally
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Turn Your iPhone Into A 3D Hologram Projector
Ever wondered how to make a 3D hologram? Follow these simple steps to create a simple hologram using your smartphone,
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NASA Releases Footage of the Sun in Ultra-HD (4K)
Even though it’s massive, bright, and above us every day, it’s not that easy to get a clear look at
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Disney’s VertiGo – A Wall-Climbing Robot
VertiGo is a wall-climbing robot that is capable of transitioning from the ground to the wall, created in collaboration between
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Soft Robot
Harvard researchers have created a soft robot inspired by animals like starfish and worms that can twist their way around
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How Pixar created its most complex character yet for ‘Finding Dory’
Pixar says Hank the Octopus wasn’t possible with the technology available 13 years ago for “Finding Nemo.” Find out how
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The All-in-One Robot Arm
A complete digital fabrication system for makers everywhere: 3D print, laser, carve, plot, assemble, pick/place + more on your desktop
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2017’s Cutting-Edge Inventions Mean a World of Change for 2018
From a mathematical cake design to self-healing concrete and virtual reality you can taste, this is the ultramodern technology that
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Developers will get their hands on Microsoft’s HoloLens within a year
Ian Paul | @ianpaul Contributor, PCWorld Microsoft says HoloLens will start rolling out to developers within the “Windows 10 time
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Tesla’s Autopilot System Is Awesome And Creepy
By Micheal Ballaban The Tesla Model S isn’t the first truly autonomous car on the road and available for sale
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Meet Robot Boss, Your Worst Office Nightmare
Ever wish you could send a robot to work for you? Double Robotics has created Double, a telepresence robot that
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Team of Microrobots Pulls a Car
Not only are ants impressively strong, they are also amazing team players. This research inspired by such teamwork examples how
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Innovation Film: The Mill BLACKBIRD
The Mill has created The Mill BLACKBIRD, the first fully adjustable car rig that creates photoreal CG cars – it’s
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China Builds World’s Powerful Facial Recognition System
China is building the world’s most powerful facial recognition system with the power to identify any one of its 1.3
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This Technology can Charge your Phone and other Devices over the Air
Curious about real wireless power? Cota is a new technology that challenges everything you know about wireless power. With Cota
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This Awesome Machine Can 3D Print Plants To Grow Into Any Shape
Too many city rooftops are barren, grey, and boring. Computer scientist Yuichiro Takeuchi, who works with the Sony Computer Science
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Is this how we’ll get around in the future?
Is this the future of urban mobility? Honda Uni-cub – Is this how we going to go about our business
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World’s first passenger drone
This is as close as it comes to a jet pack. Chinese drone maker Ehang’s giant quadcopter is big enough
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Microsoft HoloLens: Actiongram
Actiongram delivers an eclectic mix of holograms that enables new forms of storytelling. Stage your own video creations by moving,
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A Pet Camera Lets You Interact With Your Pet While You’re Away
Petcube creates products that enable people to virtually care for their pets and always feel connected. We’re proudly returning to
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A Scientist And a Surfer Teamed Up to Create the Perfect Wave
LEMOORE, CALIFORNIA—“You should’ve been here yesterday.” That’s a repeated gag line in The Endless Summer, the classic 1966 documentary that
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Japanese Hotel with Self-Parking Furniture
A traditional Japanese hotel, or ryokan, located in Hakone, Japan, is bewildering travelers with slippers, tables and floor cushions fitted
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