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When will we see living robots? The challenges facing biohybrid robotics

● Biohybrid robotics aims to combine living tissue with mechanical components to create robots that are more flexible, silent, biodegradable and capable of self-healing.
● Progress in the field is hampered by major technical challenges, such as the size of artificial muscles and muscle nutrient requirements.
● However, help is at hand from AI which can optimize the fabrication of artificial muscles by modelling cell quantities and the manner in which they will be assembled before they are grown in a lab.
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Soft Robotics Lab – ETH Zürich (lab head: Prof. Robert Katzschmann (not in the picture). From left to right: Jose Greminger (Master student), Pablo Paniagua (Master student), Jakob Schreiner (visiting PhD student), Aiste Balciunaite (PhD student), Miriam Filippi (Established researcher), and Asia Badolato (PhD student).
Three people are collaborating around a laptop in a modern office environment. One of them, standing, is explaining something to the two seated individuals, who appear attentive. On the table, there is a desktop computer, a tablet, and office supplies. Plants and desks are visible in the background.
Artificial intelligence | Explore

FairDeDup limits social biases in AI models

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Artificial intelligence | Discover

A mathematical model to help AIs anticipate human emotions

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Data | Explore

Lower emissions and reinforced digital sovereignty: the plan for datacentres in space

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person wearing bioelectronic fibre arrays for dual-ECG signal acquisition / credit: Wenyu Wang and Yuan Shui
Internet of things | Discover

Bioelectronics: disease monitoring sensors that can be printed directly onto human skin

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Internet of things | Discover

Artificial pollination: robotic solutions that aim to supplement the work of bees

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Digital culture | Discover

Tom Chatfield: “AI could lead to a massive pollution of the world’s data and the erasure of trust.”

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