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L'histoire d'une poupée robot qui exerce sa propre volonté.
Swiss Space Systems, nouvel entrant sur le marché des opérateurs de lancement de petits satellites et de passagers privés, propose le Soar, sorte de mini-navette réutilisable.
"If human history is the story of a creature who molts from ape to angel - or, as Nietzsche claimed, from beast to Superman - then somewhere along the way it seems that we must become machines" -Erik
Writers and historians enjoy making the case for one or another thinker as the starting point for an epoch. Did Galileo launch the scientific revolution? Or was it Copernicus? Or Kepler? Did Dante’s poetry kick start the Renaissance?
The term substrate-independence denotes the philosophical thesis of Functionalism – that what is important about the mind and its constitutive sub-systems and processes is their relative function. If such a function could be recreated using an alternate series if component parts of procedural steps, or can be recreated on another substrate entirely, the philosophical thesis of Functionalism holds that it should be the same as the original, experientially speaking.
Le Laboratoire de biorobotique de l'EPFL vient d'accoucher d'un drôle de robot à quatre pattes nommé Cheetah-cub et inspiré de nos félins d'appartement.
Il suffit de quatre microphones et d'un simple programme informatique pour produire une image en trois dimensions (3D) très précise d'une pièce dans un bâtiment, selon une étude publiée lundi aux Etats-Unis qui se fonde sur la technique d'écholocalisation. Les aveugles développent parfois des capacités surprenantes pour percevoir les contours d'une pièce où ils se trouvent à partir des sons entendus. Les chauves-souris et les dauphins utilisent la même technique d'écholocalisation pour se déplacer, expliquent les auteurs de cette recherche parue dans les Comptes rendus de l'Académie nationale américaine des sciences (PNAS).
Observer editorial: Science is sending us towards a posthuman future. We need to decide if that's where we should be going
Could we achieve digital immortality by uploading our minds? Would such a process prolong our existence? Those are the questions being asked in this series of posts.
At the end of the documentary Transcendent Man, Ray Kurzweil says, “Does God exist? Well, not yet.” I agree. It certainly brings up a topic that isn’t easily understood, nor well received by those dictated under dogmatic belief systems.
Google has become deeply involved in a series of projects to build and operate wireless networks in emerging markets including sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, a report said Friday.
The model of distributed calculations, where a problem is broken down into distinct parts that can be solved individually on a computer and then recombined, has been around for decades.
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Microsoft vient de se voir accorder un brevet décrivant un appareillage transmettant des données via de faibles impulsions électriques au travers du corps humain. De quoi échanger des données...
Google's big keynote at its I/O developers conference this week wore me out. Not because it lasted a grueling three hours and fifty minutes, but because of what was announced. With every new product update, every new feature, every new virtual service, it became more and more clear that Google isn't just a search company that makes loads of cash by showing you ads. It's creeping into every aspect of our digital, physical, and private lives at an exponential rate.
Dmitry Itskov wants a world in which we can live forever in an android body - and he wants it soon. The 32-year-old Russian billionaire has outlined his '2045' vision at a global conference he held in New York.
One reason that we know that ideas stick and spread is because they’re useful.
"The life expectancy was 20 1,000 years ago. ... We doubled it in 200 years. This will go into high gear within 10 and 20 years from now, probably less than 15 we will be reaching that tipping point where we add more time than has gone by because of scientific progress," said Ray Kurzweil. "Somewhere between 10 and 20 years, there is going to be tremendous transformation of health and medicine."
Le laboratoire Google X, division de Google dont l’emplacement est tenu secret, est connu pour ses travaux remarquables en matière d’innovation de rupture. Larry Page et Sergey Brin, les fondateurs de Google, passeraient beaucoup de temps dans ce mystérieux laboratoire à Moutain View.
A new groundbreaking material recently discovered has the potential to change the world: Water filtration, cellular and battery technology, aircraft and automotive finishing will never be the same.
Baptisé "chiot-guépard", cette merveille de technologie se déplace, comme le montre cette vidéo, en tous points comme un... félin ! Et à toute vitesse : ce robot quadrupède est l'un des plus rapides de sa catégorie. "Le robot "chiot-guépard" mesure 20,5 centimètres de long, 16 centimètres de hauteur et pèse environ 1,1 kilogramme, soit la taille d'un petit chat domestique ou d'un très jeune guépard" explique à l'AFP Alexander Sprowitz, qui gère ce projet au sein de l'école helvète : "Avec notre robot, nous avons enregistré une vitesse maximum de 1,42 mètre par seconde. C'est une bonne vitesse de marche pour un être humain adulte : 5,1 kilomètres par heure".
Yesterday’s Observer features two pieces about human enhancement in the prospect of the FutureFest festival in London in September (see here and here). The articles mention Bertolt Meyer, a Swiss man born without a left hand who was recently fitted with a state-of-the-art bionic one (which he controls from his iPhone), and include quotes from well-know authors associated with the topic of human enhancement, such as Nick Bostrom and Andy Miah.
A lot of people would like to live forever, or at least for much longer than they currently do. But there is one obvious impediment to this: our biological bodies break down over time and cannot (with current technologies) be sustained indefinitely.
Microraptor, ce petit dinosaure volant aux plumes irisées, qui peuplait les forêts il y a environ 130 millions d’années, mangeait des poissons.
Contrôler un robot par la pensée n'est plus de la science-fiction. Une équipe de chercheurs français a fait équipe avec l'Institut japonais de…
Les billets et pièces de monnaie sont-ils voués à disparaître? La crise économique et financière a, en tous cas, incité certains à s'orienter vers un…
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