Episode 175 - TRANSHUMAN DEIFICATION: THE NEW WORLD HAS A CHIP ON ITS SHOULDER W/ GONZ SHIMURA
b'Harvard University created the Octobot, described as an \\u201cadorable step toward the robot.\\u201d Employing three-dimensional printing and silicone gel, the flexible, rubbery body has no batteries or rigid parts. Instead, chemicals course through its veins to give it power.
Bio-engineers at the same university also created a tiny stingray-inspired robot, fusing heart cells from rats to a silicone body and added a gene that reacts to blue light. They were then able to control it by using pulses of blue light. It\\u2019s not an organism \\u2013 or at least they aren\\u2019t\\u2019 calling that \\u2013 but it has a beating heart and it is very much living.
Meanwhile, lifelike androids are greeting shoppers in Japan, and last week it was announced that a baby with three sets of DNA was born.
Originally Broadcast On 10/05/2016'