Carbon monoxide molecules serve as pixels in the world’s smallest stop-motion animation, “A Boy And His Atom.” A team of IBM researchers shot the film with a scanning tunneling microscope that magnified the image 100 million times. The microscope was also used to move the carbon monoxide molecules for each frame of the animation. For more on how researchers created the animation, see this making-of video. The film was made during the course of IBM’s research into atomic-scale memory. In 2012, IBM researchers used 12 atoms to store one bit of data—current technology requires 1,000,000 atoms to store the same information.
Posts tagged "video"
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A Boy And His Atom, Single Molecules Serve as Pixels in The World’s Smallest Animation →
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Human moves rat’s tail with thoughts alone
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Beyond Humanism: Becoming Cyborgs through Posthumanism by Gavin Rae - Part 1
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‘Terminator’ false arm ties shoelace and deals cards
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Moon mining race under way →
Space exploration has long been about reaching far off destinations but now there is a race to exploit new frontiers by mining their minerals.
Google has offered a $20m grand prize to the first privately-funded company to land a robot on the moon and explore the surface by moving at least 500 metres and send high definition video back to Earth by 2015.
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Ray Kurzweil: Your Brain in the Cloud
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Solve for X: Andras Forgacs on sustainable, scalable meat
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Robot seeing itself for first time
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This Slicing And Dicing Chainsaw Robot Makes Beautiful Furniture →
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise may have just released its seventh installment this month, but here’s some inspiration for an eighth: What if the killer were a robot capable of using a chainsaw for a precision of slicing and dicing that no human is capable of?
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When the mind controls the machines →
Stroke survivors, as well as patients suffering from other serious conditions, may have to deal with the partial or complete inability to move one or more of their limbs. In the most severe cases, the sufferer may become fully paralyzed and in need of permanent assistance.
The TOBI project (Tools for brain-computer interaction) is financed by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7) and is coordinated by EPFL. Since 2008 it has focused on the use of the signals transmitted by the brain. The electrical activity that takes place in the brain when the patient focuses on a particular task such as lifting an arm is detected by electroencephalography (EEG) through electrodes placed in a cap worn by the patient. Subsequently, a computer reads the signals and turns them into concrete actions as, for instance, moving a cursor on a screen.
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‘Terminator’ arm is world’s most advanced prosthetic limb
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NimbRo-OP Humanoid TeenSize Open Platform Robot
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Exclusive Interview with Ray Kurzweil
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AR Drone Helps Swarm of Self-Assembling Robots to Overcome Obstacles →
We’re used to thinking of robot swarms as consisting of lots and lots of similar robots working together. What we’re starting to see now, though, are swarms of heterogeneous robots, where you get different robots combining their powers to make each other more efficient and more capable. One of the first projects to really make this work was Swarmanoid, with teams of footbots and handbots and eyebots, and researchers presented a similar idea at IROS earlier this month, using an AR Drone to help a swarm of self-assembling ground robots to climb over a hill.
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Ray Kurzweil on Singularity 1 on 1
