Imagine not dying….ever! Instead all of your thoughts get uploaded to a computer brain in the body of a robot and you continue to experience consciousness through the machine’s memory circuits. Well that’s a story that caught my eye this morning as I was reading thro

No sooner than I ask readers to tell me about applications they would like personal robots to engage in, Joggobot shows up. What is it? A personal social companion that accompanies you as you jog. Joggobot is a quadracopter drone with a built in camera and software program. The camera

Because I continually run across interesting inventions and discoveries that I cannot give my full attention to I thought I would create a weekly summary of items that have caught my eye. I’ll publish these headlines every Friday and hope, you,  my readers find them as interesti

Today it can take considerable resources, effort and time to build a single robot. But at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard, a team of researchers is heading up a new five-year project called An Expedition in Computing for Compiling Printabl

People who study Biomimetics look at biological processes and try to mimic them in technology. After all nature has tooled around with DNA-inspired creations from the dawn of life on this planet nearly 4 billion years ago. And humans have learned from nature. Some modern examples of b

Animals come in many shapes and forms. Insects and other arthropods share a common physical attribute. They wear their skeletons on the outside. We call them invertebrates. Humans and other mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, called vertebrates, have an internal or endoskel

In earlier blogs we have looked at the evolution of robots and artificial intelligence. In this blog we’ll tackle the subject from the perspective of advances in biomedicine. Why are we humans developing robots for biomedical use? Because robots when properly designed are master