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  Ivan Nieves

  

  Scientists grow cells on a robot skeleton (but don’t know what to do with them yet)

  The Verge - James Vincent

  The science of tissue engineering — or growing human cells for use in medicine — is very much in its infancy, with only the simplest lab-grown cells able to be used in experimental treatments today. But researchers say a new method of tissue engineering could potentially improve the quality of this …

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  Ivan Nieves

  

  GM Cruise autonomous taxi pulled over by police in San Francisco without humans, 'bolts' off (U: Cruise responds)

  Electrek - Seth Weintraub

  Over the weekend, a GM Cruise converted Chevy Bolt without a driver was pulled over by San Francisco Police. In an unexpected turn, the car “bolted” to a safe spot. Cruise responded. The original Instagram poster noted that this occurred in the Richmond District of San Francisco last week. b.rad916: …

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  Ivan Nieves

  

  The 'Dronut' is a Cylindrical Drone Straight Out of Science Fiction

  petapixel.com - Anete Lusina

  The Cleo Robotics Dronut is the world’s first bi-rotor ducted drone that makes it look like something straight out of science fiction. The …

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  Ivan Nieves

  

  MIT's robot army trains together in a video that will mess you up

  Mashable - Adam Rosenberg

  It's like a trailer for our future robot-powered apocalypse. What's more disconcerting than watching MIT's dog-like Mini Cheetah robot cavort around? Nine of them doing it in unison. We've had concerns about MIT's robots for some time now, but a new video from the school's biomimetic robotics lab …

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  Ivan Nieves

  

  Skip the New Terminator, and Watch This Unnerving Robo-Apocalypse Instead

  Popular Mechanics - Courtney Linder

  This is how the robots will take over. There are some legitimate arguments that robotic technology and the military are, uh, absolutely horrifying. Some students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University feel uneasy about the new Army AI research base on campus and Google employees protested working …

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  Ivan Nieves

  

  Incredible video of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot doing parkour

  boingboing.net - David Pescovitz

  Boston Dynamics has just released this astounding video of their Atlas humanoid robot doing parkour: Unfortunately the engineers failed to outfit …