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From BigDog to PETMAN: Can a Terminator T-600 Be Far Behind?
It’s all in the legs. Boston Dynamics’ new PETMAN is billed as an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing used by the U.S. Army. Now available as a prototype, PETMAN is built from the same balancing technology that makes the four-legged mule-like BigDog so formidable in hostile terrain – except that PETMAN has two legs.
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It’s all in the legs. Boston Dynamics’ new PETMAN is billed as an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing used by the U.S. Army.
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Using Human “Wetware†to Control Robots
According to a University of Reading press release, the “wetware†biological brain used by the UK robot is made up of cultured neurons that are placed onto a multi-electrode array (MEA). The MEA is a dish with approximately 60 electrodes that pick up the electrical signals generated by the cells.
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Martine Rothblatt, a satellite scientist of distinction, developed an interest in transhumanism in 2002 when she read Ray Kurzweil’s The Age of Spiritual Machines. “I had never really thought about the numbers or the practicality, and he took me through the numbers. I felt like I wanted to be a transhumanist — it all s...poke to me as a transgendered person.” A little later, she discovered the website of the World Transhumanist Association. At first she felt unwelcome, but maintains that trans people are a core part of that community, because we embrace growth and change as part of our spirituality.Read More
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Martine Rothblatt, a satellite scientist who started GeoStar and Sirius Satellite Radio talks about humans abandoning the flesh and instead rather be downloaded to live forever as information.
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The NEPTUNE 30 is an evolved version of the OTRAG (Lutz Kayser, Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus) launch vehicle design that showed so much promise in the late 1970s. We have a program based on their original work. Our NEPTUNE 30 rocket has been created to carry on their very sound design philosophy and tradition. The lau...ncher is updated and modernized in terms of electronics and computer systems, but the basic tank cluster configuration and the use of storable propellants harks back to Lutz Kayser’s original work. We are lucky enough and honored to have Lutz on the Interorbital team.Read More
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InterOrbital Systems (IOS) is -- according to their website -- a "rocket and spacecraft manufacturing company" that locates itself at the Mojave Airport and Spaceport in Mojave, California. They recently announced that they were offering to
h+ Magazine Jason Silva sat down (virtually) with h+ Editor-in-Chief R.U. Sirius and Surfdaddy Orca for a 3-way conversation on a wide range of topics including science, religion, meaning, death, beauty, immortality, today’s youth, vampires, Woody Allen, Al Gore, Larry King, the Singularity, and – naturally – film and television.
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If you watch 27-year-old Jason Silva on Current TV -- the Emmy-winning youth-oriented cable network co-founded by Al Gore -- you’d never guess that he’s a first-rate transhumanist thinker, skeptic, and passionate advocate of science in overcoming the biol
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Fall 2009 Issue is Officially Live - Be sure to check it out!
The Fall 2009 Issue of h+ Magazine features Erik Davis on Dollhouse, Tweaking Your Neurons, The Psychedelic Transhumanists, Sex and the Singularity, Jonathan Coulton’s Inner Squid, and more.
h+ Magazine | Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing--and will ch
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Check out the current issue of h+ Magazine; a new publication that covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing human beings in fundamental ways.
h+ Magazine Synthetic Life is leaving Moore’s Law in the dust –- and if we are to believe the predictions of Kurzweil, Joy, and others –- it likely will precede the coming Neuro and Nano revolutions. At this pace of development, expect to download Synthetic Organism Designer 1.0 sometime soon.
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A fleeting image of a slide at Craig Venter's 2008 TED presentation on synthetic life captures synthetic genomics in a nutshell. The slide shows Synthetic Organism Designer 1.0, a piece of software akin to Will Wright's Spore Creature Creator.
h+ Magazine The term “high-frequency” refers to fast entry and exit of trading positions, the process best executed by algorithms and dedicated computer programs employing artificial intelligence. However, this can turn into the intentional probing of the market with tiny orders that are immediately canceled at speeds that cannot be matched by individual human investors.
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"Nearly everyone on Wall Street is wondering how hedge funds and large banks like Goldman Sachs are making so much money so soon after the financial system nearly collapsed," writes the New York Times' Charles Duhigg in a front page piece
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Do Nanobacteria Actually Rule the Earth and Mars?
Nanobacteria — controversial calcium carbonate crystals with a cellular appearance that some consider nanometer-size bacteria — were once hailed as possibly “the most common form of life on Earth.” There was speculation that “they might also be living on Mars.”
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The breathless BBC headline read “Do Nanobacteria Rule the Earth and Mars?” But this scoop was in 1999. Did we actually discover evidence for extraterrestrial life ten years ago?
h+ Magazine Furries still risk frequent harassment in public places; and avatars that resemble children are banned in many SL locations because of fear that some may be the creation of child molesters looking for avatar-on-avatar sex.
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So says Scope Cleaver, a designer and architect inside Second Life. Praised by New York Times Magazine for his design of Princeton University’s Diversity Building (the article headline: “Architectural Wonders of the Virtual World,” 12/7/2008), his creatio
h+ Magazine The first priority of Singularity University is attracting and creating that network of the top people in their fields. Once they have a population of brilliant future leaders, the second goal is to teach them across disciplines so that they can create innovation.
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From X PRIZE to Singularity University: An Interview with Peter Diamandis, by Alex Lightman and R.U. Sirius.
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The Fertility Institutes Back Away From Making History
James Hughes said, “the term ‘designer babies’ is an insult to parents, because it basically says parents don’t have their kids’ best interests at heart.
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Here Come the Neurobots - Brain Bots are Developing Personalities... and a Whole Lot more
Can we build a brain from the ground up, one neuron at a time? That's the goal of Neurobotics. Computationally demanding and requiring a long view and a macroscopic perspective this field is so fundamentally challenging that there are only around five labs pursuing it worldwide.
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When you embed a brain in a body, you get behavior not often found in other robots.
h+ Magazine Not only does quantum phenomena occur in living systems, but the basic processes of life we take for granted rely on the transfer of information backward in time. Life is so magical because it cheats.
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The new science of quantum biology is teaching us about how the actual behavior of evolution is governed by disconcertingly spooky processes – time travel being one of them.
h+ Magazine Locked DNA origami nanoboxes can deliver medicine or anti-aging therapies.
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It may be possible for a DNA origami nanobox to localize certain markers in cancer cells and deliver an anti-cancer drug… at precisely the right spot.
