By taking comet ice, recreating the conditions in space and observing the results in infrared,
researchers discovered a possible precursor of amino acids.
This research is to try to uncover how comets crashing into Earth could have carried the
building blocks of life.
And PawBot automatically opens and serves wet cat food.
It grabs a bowl, opens one of the 18 cans, dumps the food, pushes out the bowl, and then
washes its robot hands.
Vsauce!
Kevin here.
This is Mind Blow.
Say hello to the OctopusGripper.
The phenomenal folks at Festo , who have been featured on Mind Blow for their bionic ants
and bionic butterflies, have now turned their attention to tentacles.
The soft silicone structure is controlled with air pressure and can grip objects with
the help of two large vacuum suction cups.
Since the tentacle is soft it's ideal for human/robot interaction in places like factories.
Also I think it just looks really cool.
Ybrain is developing a wearable headset to electrically optimize your brain.
Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation works by sending a weak electronic signal to specific
areas of the scalp.
While the creators suggest someday this treatment could be beneficial to a sufferers of a range
of neurological disorders from addiction, dieting, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s,
a comprehensive review of hundreds of tDCS studies suggests one area that may be effective
right now is in treating depression.
The amount of current to use and for how many sessions is still being studied but Ybrain
is rolling out in 70 Korean hospitals in 2017 and hope to use their findings to fine tune
the inexpensive, take-home device and eventually bring it to Europe and then the United States.
In other transracial direct current stimulation news, a study out of Zurich found it can be
used to increase honesty.
They asked participants to roll die and and get paid depending on the outcome — allowing
them the opportunity to lie to get more money.
Those who struggled between being honest and getting more money were more honest when the
electrical stimulation was applied to their brains.
Where this gets really interesting is the concept that honesty represents an organic
condition based on biological predispositions.
So sorry judge, my brain is liar.
A new brain imaging process allows researchers to see neuronal connections better than ever
before.
Clarity, developed at Stanford University chemically dissolves the milky opaque tissue
that coats much of the brain and replaces it with a transparent hydrogel.
This allows a window into brains to look at individual neurons like in this mouse brain
and they attribute different colors to different kinds of cells.
Creating 3D brain maps will allow researchers to compare brains and hopefully observe and
correct problems.
The imaging technique could also be applied to observe the electrical pathways in the
heart and better understanding damaged fibers in the spinal cord.
High-powered lasers are allowing us to reconstruct feathered dinosaurs with unprecedented accuracy.
Dr Pittman at the University Of Hong Kong used Laser-Stimulated Fluorescence on soft
tissues in dinosaur bones, making the few skin atoms left glow in the dark.
This has helped reveal the shape of the dinosaur and examining over 200 specimens allowed this
awesome revised life reconstruction.
And they’re taking this technology around the world so expect a lot more accurate dinosaurs.
A lab on a glove could detect nerve agents with a swipe.
Stretchable, flexible inks were created to print sample collectors and biosensors on
the gloves.
By swiping the thumb featuring the collector and touching the index finger with the sensors,
an electrochemical signal is sent through the glove to a smartphone.
And the plan is to use this to better increase security.
NASA has prototyped new robots to explore ocean worlds like Jupiter’s moon Europa.
The robots will need tires to traverse the ice, heated claws to grip the ice while a
drill penetrates the surface.
Probes would then return with samples through pneumatic tubes.
Please do this.
We all wanna know what's down there.
Thanks.
Finally, scientists at Pacific Northwest Laboratory can now covert methane which is produced by
landfills, dairy farms and oil wells into a green goo that can be used as biofuel or
cow feed.
This is a way for us to find two organisms willfully coordinate their metabolism for
an application such as capturing wasted methane and converting it into transportation fuel,
specialty bio products, or agricultural feed stocks.
It doesn't smell good and it doesn't look tasty but it is valuable.
I’m gonna leave you with ROBO-ONE the world’s first biped robot fighting tournament.
And as always - thanks for watching.
To meet the need for even greater mobility, the army is experimenting with the aero cycle.
A one man flying platform capable of carrying a fully equipped soldier at 40 MPH.
The wrist radio, long the dream of comic book detectives, is now a reality with an Army
rogue.
And a handy talkie set has a one mile range.
Here again, science is providing new and better methods.
Experiments in radiating food with atomic energy have pointed to new ways of prolonging
the life of food.
Never before has man stood so precariously on the brink of his own destruction.
By striving for ever-greater superiority, the United States Army dedicates itself to
deter that end.