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Month: October 2009

Robo Habilis

One of the species of early hominids is named Homo habilis, meaning “handy man,” after their significant advancement in tool use over previous hominids. One of the goals of the AGI Roadmap is to chart paths to full human intelligence, and one of the paths might follow the one that evolution took. The Wozniak Test,… Continue reading Robo Habilis

AGI Roadmap meeting

Foresight’s mission is essentially an educational one.  In simplest terms we are here to point out foreseeable technological developments that not only will make the future different from the past, but make it different in ways that aren’t obvious and which everyone isn’t already planning for. Nanotechnology — true nanotech in Drexler’s original sense of… Continue reading AGI Roadmap meeting

IEEE Spectrum: German Environmental Agency Miffed at Exploitation of Position Paper on Nanotechnology

IEEE Spectrum: German Environmental Agency Miffed at Exploitation of Position Paper on Nanotechnology. From Dexter Johnson at nanoclast: Germany’s Federal Environment Agency (UBA) last week made a background paper available on their website, which they now concede contained no new research and none that their organization had actually performed, entitled “Nanotechnology for Humans and the… Continue reading IEEE Spectrum: German Environmental Agency Miffed at Exploitation of Position Paper on Nanotechnology

Atomic precision as the goal of nanotechnology

Nanotechnology Enables Real Atomic Precision is the title of a piece by Susan Smith in Desktop Engineering, which includes comments by longtime Foresight Senior Associates Steve Vetter and Tihamer Toth-Fejel: While nanotechology might mean different things to different people, the term was originally coined to describe the building of things from the bottom up with… Continue reading Atomic precision as the goal of nanotechnology

Accelerating Future » RepRap “Mendel” to be Released Soon!

Accelerating Future » RepRap “Mendel” to be Released Soon!. Nicw round-up with videos of the latest in the Rep-Rap world.

The 2-millimeter dash

The 2-millimeter dash was a nanobot race held as part of the 2009 RoboCup Nanosoccer Demonstration Competition.  That was July; typically entry time, as for Robocup 2010 in Singapore, would be year end, but I can’t see any announcement for it on their page.  Does anyone know any more details?

High-speed AFM meets the Holographic Assembler

Here’s a talk happening next Tuesday at UCLA: NanoSystems Seminar Series Title: High-speed AFM meets the Holographic Assembler Mervyn Miles Physics Bristol University Abstract: High-speed AFM is important for following processes occurring on short time scales inaccessible to conventional AFM. We are working on two versions: one is capable of extremely high imaging rates and… Continue reading High-speed AFM meets the Holographic Assembler

Interview of Artificial General Intelligence Researcher Itamar Arel by Sander Olson

Interview of Artificial General Intelligence Researcher Itamar Arel by Sander Olson. on Next Big Future This is particularly apropos, since as I write I’m heading off to the AGI Roadmap meeting which Itamar has organized (and of which Foresight is a sponsor).

Dr. Doom has some good news: nanotechnology

From The Atlantic: Nouriel Roubini, the New York University economist who accurately forecast the bursting of the housing bubble and the resulting economic contraction, has become famous for his pessimism—he has been the gloomiest of the doomsayers… “The question is, can the U.S. grow in a non-bubble way?” [Roubini] asked the question rhetorically, so I… Continue reading Dr. Doom has some good news: nanotechnology

Nanoparticle Breakthrough Can Make Higher Efficiency Solar Cells and Speed Development of Nanotechnology

Nanoparticle Breakthrough Can Make Higher Efficiency Solar Cells and Speed Development of Nanotechnology. Brian Wang at Next Big Future has the story of a classic case of serendipity in research. The yellow is what the sun puts out that hits the top of the atmosphere (what a solar power satellite would see, for example).  The… Continue reading Nanoparticle Breakthrough Can Make Higher Efficiency Solar Cells and Speed Development of Nanotechnology

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