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How to trigger self-powered mechanical movement

Could be used for detecting substances, moving particles to build small structures, and delivering medications

Stretchable electronics that can quadruple in length

Ideal for prosthetics or robot skin

Monkeys learn to drive wheelchairs with their thoughts

Goal is to enable severely paralyzed patients to one day become mobile

First ‘natural machine’ augmented reality product Meta 2 launches to developers

Iron Man meets Princess Leia

‘Fingerprinting’ and neural nets could help protect power grid, other industrial systems

Scenario: Terrorists have just hacked into the U.S. electrical grid and sent false data or malicious commands to destroy a remote electrical substation, turning off power to a city…

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