The European Commission has selected the two research proposals it will fund to the tune of half-a-billion euros each after a two-year, high-profile contest. The Human Brain Project, led by neuroscientist Henry Markram at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, plans to simulate everything known about the human brain in a supercomputer. …
Robert J Gordon (Northwestern University and the Center for Economic Policy Research) wrote ‘Is US economic growth over? Faltering innovation confronts the six headwinds’ He makes the case that it will be a lot tougher to have economic growth in the future. The US for output per capita, and the UK before it, gradually began …
Several remote telepresence robots have come to market over the past few years, and more are on the way. Shown below are drivable remote telepresence robots from MantaroBot, Vgo, Anybots, and Suitable Technology. A lower cost non-mobile desktop alternative from Revolve Robotics, known as the “Kubi,” is shown at the right. ABI Research has projected …
Shares of iRobot (Nasdaq:IRBT) soared to 10.27 percent to $23.28 as of 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan 24, 2013. The increase comes on the heels of the Bedford, Mass. company’s announcement that the remote presence robot developed by iRobot and its telemedicine partner, InTouch Health, has received 510(k) clearance by the by U.S. Food and Drug …
Kurzweil and Freitas have a differing view. Kurzweil: Humans and nanomachines will be permanently and seamlessly integrated at the cellular level. Freitas: Humans and nanomachines will not be integrated. Humans will periodically inject themselves with nanomachines to perform specific purposes meant to restore or upgrade their organic tissue, but the nanomachines will leave the body …
Researchers from IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology revealed today an antimicrobial hydrogel that can break through diseased biofilms and completely eradicate drug-resistant bacteria upon contact. The synthetic hydrogel, which forms spontaneously when heated to body temperature, is the first-ever to be biodegradable, biocompatible and non-toxic, making it an ideal tool to combat …
If Google and other companies are successful with robotic cars so that all cars, trucks and buses were converted to robotic vehicles there would be huge employment impacts. There are a lot of driving related jobs. Fortunately a lot more jobs will be created from expanded cities and greater mobility and productivity. According the American …
[Forbes] The driverless car has broad implications for society, for the economy and for individual businesses. Just in the U.S., the car puts up for grab some $2 trillion a year in revenue and even more market cap. Driverless car technology has the very real potential to save millions from death and injury and eliminate …
Sinopec and PetroChina quietly have been beefing up efforts to start producing syngas from coal in the last two years. Coal-to-gas production could potentially outstrip both shale gas and coalbed methane by the end of the current five-year economic plan in 2015, as well as by 2020, according to some estimates. Bernstein is predicting synthetic …
GE’s Industrial Internet World Industrial Survey Statistics – A Baseline for Future Kardashev Level 1 World Projections A guest post by Joseph Friedlander Brian Wang has written in the article “Industrial Internet Report From GE Finds That Combination of Networks and Machines Could Add $10 to $15 Trillion to Global GDP” The charts featured in …
A nonprofit called Common Crawl is now using its own Web crawler and making a giant copy of the Web that it makes accessible to anyone. The organization offers up over five billion Web pages, available for free so that researchers and entrepreneurs can try things otherwise possible only for those with access to resources …