—This is an excerpt from a brand new e book, The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots, by MIT CSAIL director Daniela Rus
Robots are an unbelievable method to improve and prolong the attain of human capabilities. In 2009, I labored with the biologist Roger Payne to make use of camera-mounted drones to check whales and their life spans.
The similar drone was used to check uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, in order that they might be noticed with out the threat of bringing germs to individuals who had not developed immunity.
We additionally constructed a drone that launched from a self-driving automotive, flying forward and round corners to relay its video again to the automotive’s navigation system.
We can already pilot our eyes round corners and ship them hovering off cliffs. But what if we may prolong all of our senses to beforehand unreachable locations, and throw our sight, listening to, contact, and even sense of scent to distant locales and expertise these locations in a extra visceral means? The prospects are countless—and endlessly thrilling. Read the full extract right here.
Organoids created from amniotic fluid will inform us how fetuses develop
The information: As a fetus grows in the womb, it sheds cells into the amniotic fluid that surrounds it. Now researchers have demonstrated that they can use these cells to develop organoids, three-dimensional constructions which have some of the properties of human organs—on this case kidneys, small intestines, and lungs. These cells can be extracted with out harming the fetus.
