Robot Apocalypse, Dorky Headsets, Mechanical Hands, and Super Spiders

Published: Nov. 28, 2017, 4 a.m.

b"How to Survive a Robot Apocalypse: Just Close the Door\\n\\nRobots may enslave us all someday. In the meantime, if one of them goes berserk, here\\u2019s a useful tactic: Shut the door behind you.\\n\\nBut then again, some progress has been made since 2015.\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\nThe Inevitability Of Augmented Reality HMDs\\n\\nWe are constantly shifting between the world in our hands and the physical world. Tens of thousands of people die every year because of this incredibly bad form factor, and the need to change it is urgent.\\n\\nSpider drinks graphene, spins web that can hold the weight of a human\\n\\nFor the study, Nicola Pugno and team at the University of Trento in Italy added graphene and carbon nanotubes to a spider's drinking water. The materials were naturally incorporated into the spider's silk, producing webbing that is five times stronger than normal. That puts it on par with pure carbon fibers in strength, as well as with Kevlar, the material bulletproof vests are made from.\\n\\nHigh-tech neuroprosthetic \\u2018Luke\\u2019 arm lets amputee touch and feel again\\n\\n\\u201cWhen I went to grab something, I could feel myself grabbing it. When I thought about moving this or that finger, it would move almost right away,\\u201d Keven Walgamott said. \\u201cI don\\u2019t know how to describe it except that it was like I had a hand again.\\u201d\\n\\nPlus -- was it an alien spacecraft? (Timothy Gordon says yes!)\\n\\n\\xa0\\n\\nWT 374-685"