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Meet the Next Generation of Doctors—and Their Surgical Robots
While there is currently no single standardized curriculum for using the surgical…
AI Is Building Highly Effective Antibodies That Humans Can’t Even Imagine
James Field, founder and CEO of LabGenius. Photograph: LabGenius The tests are…
This Artificial Muscle Moves Stuff on Its Own
The cucumber-mimicking experiment is the first demonstration of plant-like tropism in an…
Get Ready for 3D-Printed Organs and a Knife That ‘Smells’ Tumors
To doctors and nurses working 75 years ago, when the UK’s National…
Rovers Are So Yesterday. It’s Time to Send a Snakebot to Space
If the boxy Opportunity rover could elicit years of anthropomorphized love and goodwill, then…
Robots Are Helping Immunocompromised Kids ‘Go to School’
That was the key; those interactions that I craved in the hospital…
Forget Silicon. This Computer Is Made of Fabric
Dan Preston logs in to our video call in a respectable, nondescript…
Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp
“This didn’t really work,” says Nicolas Heess, also a research scientist at…
Swarms of Mini Robots Could Dig the Tunnels of the Future
There’s no shortage of work out there, either. China recently completed a…