Links for 12-07-2007
Humanising androids, Singularity 101, Mars exploration – problems and methods, synthetic biology…
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1 – Researchers Dream of Humanizing Androids
“… a small coterie of devoted professionals and amateurs are working to make fully articulated, humanoid and even sinuously dancing robots a reality.”
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2 – Singularity Reading Recommendations
“For those interested in more seriously exploring the issues of Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity, I’d like to recommend the following writings …” None of which are sf novels, BTW.
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3 – New Mars lander will dig below surface
“NASA’s new Mars lander will travel to the Red Planet’s far northern plains to break beneath its surface in the search of conditions favourable to life.”
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4 – Future Mars Explorers Face Dusty Challenges
“One of the biggest threats is the extra-fine dust that coats the planet. And the problem is, researchers have never had any sample of the powdery grit to study, so they don’t know exactly how it behaves or what its health effects might be.”
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5 – Countdown to a synthetic lifeform
“Venter says that efforts to synthesise his minimal genome from scratch are still in progress, but once it is ready, the transplant method should allow the first bacterium with a synthetic genome to be created with little delay.”
