Researchers have developed hardware that uses electric fields to move droplets of chemical or biological solutions around a surface, mixing them in ways that could be used to test thousands of reactions in parallel.
'Programmable droplets' could enable high-volume biology experiments
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Scientists have developed a novel electric propulsion technology for nanorobots. It allows molecular machines to move a hundred thousand times faster than with the biochemical processes used to date. This makes nanobots fast enough to do assembly line work in molecular factories.
Piecework at the nano assembly line
Jim Tung, a fellow from Mathworks, a leading developer of mathematical computing software, breaks down this cutting-edge technology. He lays out AI’s profound implications for virtually every sector of the economy. Citing diverse examples, Tung argues that understanding the impact of autonomous systems has never been more important.
Breaking Down Autonomous Systems
On the way to an intelligent laboratory, physicists present an artificial agent that autonomously designs quantum experiments. In initial experiments, the system has independently (re)discovered experimental techniques that are nowadays standard in modern quantum optical laboratories. This shows how machines could play a more creative role in research in the future.
Artificial agent designs quantum experiments
At one point in time, robots were confined to the very margins of manufacturing, doing jobs which required
How Artificial Intelligence and Robots Could Radically Transform Everything
Researchers at UCSD demonstrate a self-folding robot designed to be customized and deployed in huge swarms
Self-driving cars were the talk of Las Vegas during CES 2018. We recap the 10 best robots seen at CES.
10 Best Robots of CES 2018
Researchers have created a robot that can be implanted into the body to aid the treatment of esophageal atresia, a rare birth defect that affects a baby’s esophagus.
New robot can help treat rare birth defect
An ingredient commonly found in toothpaste could be employed as an anti-malarial drug against strains of malaria parasite that have grown resistant to one of the currently used drugs. This discovery was aided by Eve, an artificially intelligent ‘robot scientist.’
AI 'scientist' finds that toothpaste ingredient may help fight drug-resistant malaria
