Cyborg
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The dream of melding biological and man-made machinery is now a little more real with the announcement that Columbia Engineering researchers have successfully harnessed a chemical energy-producing biological process to power a solid state CMOS integrated circuit.
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ScienceResearchers from North Carolina State University have succeeded in getting cyborg-like "biobot" cockroaches to move towards sounds. Down the road, such insects may be used to locate victims at disaster sites.
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ScienceWhy go to the trouble of designing tiny flying robots from scratch, when there are already ready-made insects that are about the right size? That's the thinking behind research being conducted at North Carolina State University, which is aimed at converting moths into "biobots."
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ScienceMIT's "supernumerary robotic fingers" extend from either side of the user's dominant hand, and are attached to a device that's worn around the wrist. The idea behind them is that (among other things) they could allow users to perform tasks that usually require two hands, using only one.
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Face computers like Google Glass have their advantages. But when you start talking about the disadvantages of Glass, one of the big topics that keeps coming up is a general disconnection from your surroundings. We share some thoughts on whether Google Glass makes you more or less connected.
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ScienceA team led by North Carolina State University's Dr. Edgar Lobaton is developing software that would allow "swarms" of living remote-control cockroaches to map hazardous environments such as collapsed buildings.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have used the Xbox Kinect to put cyborg cockroaches on autopilot.
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For the first time, neuromuscular electrodes that enable a prosthetic arm and hand to be controlled by thought have been permanently implanted into the nerves and muscles of an amputee.
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ScienceScientists have created a system for steering live cockroaches by remote control.
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ScienceResearchers at Harvard, MIT and Boston Children's Hospital are perfecting a breakthrough technique that could lead to better diagnostic devices, better drug delivery systems, and perhaps ... better cyborgs.
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ScienceA team from Clarkson University has implanted a living snail with a biofuel cell that generates electrical power from glucose and oxygen in the snail's blood.
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ScienceA group of researchers at Case Western Reserve University have created a power supply that relies just on the insect's normal feeding to power electronics attached to the insect.