Why China is putting robots in nursing homes
Adults TechnologyChina has more than 230 million senior citizens. To keep them company, it's encouraging nursing homes to buy companionship robots.
Myths and Facts About Superintelligent AI
Adults TechnologyWe live in an era of self driving cars, autonomous drones, deep learning algorithms, computers that beat humans at chess and go, and so on. So it's natural to ask, will artificial superintelligence replace humans, take our jobs, and destroy human civilization? Or will AI just become tools like regular computers. AI researcher Max Tegmark helps explain the myths and facts about superintelligence, the impending machine takeover, etc.
The Problem With Our Phones
Adults TechnologyThey are hugely useful of course but in many ways, we buy the advantages our phones give us at a subtly high price we don't entirely recognise. Some reflections on how to live well around phones.
How a Haitian village cooks with sunlight
Adults TechnologyThis sustainable initiative is helping to save Haiti's forests.
These College Students Built a Hyperloop Pod... Here's What Happened
Adults TechnologyCollege can be stressful with all the classes, exams and social events to balance. Now, imagine doing all that while building a Hyperloop pod that will be judged by Elon Musk... no pressure. A scrappy group of students from Wisconsin boldly took on that challenge, and they learned that no matter how many all-nighters you pull, there's always more work to be done.
Lasers Are Great, But Diamond Superlasers Are Better, Here's Why
Adults TechnologyScientists have discovered how to create a real life 'superlaser' using an ultra-pure diamond. How exactly does it work?2
The World's Largest Airport | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 3
Adults TechnologyChina is building the world's largest airport, the Beijing Daxing International Aiport, to serve the Jing-Jin-Ji megalopolis.
MIT's self-folding origami technology
Adults TechnologyMIT's self-folding origami technology that could change how we design everything from airbags to wearables.
China's Amazing Water Canal | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 2
Adults TechnologySouth-to-North Water Transfer Project: The huge populations filling China's northern megacities have a shortage of the single most necessary resource for life: water. To solve that problem, the Chinese will soon be moving 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water each year from the wetter South to the dryer North.
Jing-Jin-Ji, A MEGALOPOLIS | China's Future MEGAPROJECTS: Part 1
Adults TechnologyJing-Jin-Ji: China is in the midst of a construction spree unparalleled in human history. These are the Megaprojects that will lift China into the future. China wants to make its capital, Beijing, the center of the world's largest supercity, by merging three provinces into one continuous megalopolis of 130 million people.
A soft silicone 3D-printed heart
Adults TechnologySwiss researchers have come a step closer to building a better artificial heart. It's a squishy prototype that's 3D-printed from silicone.
Baymax from Big Hero 6 is real. Here's who created him.
Adults TechnologyChris Atkeson, the creator of Big Hero 6's Baymax, wants to bring soft robots to the world.
The snakey, viney robot that can go almost anywhere
Adults TechnologyResearchers at Stanford University developed a soft, squishy robot that "grows" like a vine and can squeeze through tight spaces. It can also lift heavy objects, which makes it potentially ideal for search-and-rescue operations.
6 things in tech today that Bill Gates accurately predicted back in 1999
Adults TechnologyThe Microsoft co-founder imagined much of the tech we use today before it even existed. He shared his thoughts in a 1999 book called "Business @ the Speed of Thought." Here's a quick look at 6 of his predictions that eventually came true, including a device you are probably holding in your hands right now.
The bizarre physics of fire ants
Adults TechnologyThey're not just an animal, they're a material. And that's got engineers interested.