AnalogFolk’s weekly innovation roundup! 02.09.19
Robotic brain worms to glitching the simulation and more…
By Francisco Jordão, Technical Lead at AnalogFolk
Welcome to the AnalogFolk weekly innovation roundup, where our technical lead Francisco Jordão summarises the innovations of the week; from the weird to the wonderful, and everything in-between.
MIT Researchers Designed this Robotic Worm to Burrow Into Human Brains
Robotics engineers at MIT have built a threadlike robot worm that can be magnetically steered to deftly navigate the extremely narrow and winding arterial pathways of the human brain. One day it could be used to quickly clear blockages and clots that contribute to strokes and aneurysms, while at the same time making the current state of robotic evolution even more unsettling.
Robot pilot that can grab the flight controls gets its plane licence
A robot pilot is learning to fly. It has passed its pilot’s test and flown its first plane, but it has also had its first mishap too.
AR App Lets Kids Customise Their Own Prescription Glasses — VRScout
Share Tweet The future of children’s eyewear is looking bright. Fitz Frames is a new, modern solution to purchasing glasses for kids. The company, which made its official launch earlier this week, uses AR technology to offer parents of children ages 3-and-up a convenient and accessible method for customising kids sunglasses and prescription eyewear.
This AI Gives Emojis Real Faces and the Results Are Horrifying
If you train a machine learning tool to find human features in emojis, the results are not pretty.
I tried to glitch the simulation and all I got was a bottle of pee
A growing community called Randonauts believe that journeying to random locations can help put us in new realities.
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