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Flying Replacement Batteries Could Massively Boost A Drone’s Flight Time
Borrowing a trick from the Air Force, whose planes can complete long-range missions thanks to in-flight refuelling from tanker aircraft, researchers at UC Berkeley showed off a novel way to keep small drones in the air almost indefinitely: flying replacement batteries that can be swapped without landing.
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This AI Fakes Footage To Make It Look Like You Have Bruno Mars’ Dance Moves
By now we have a lot of worrying examples of how AI-powered image processing software can flawlessly alter faces, or make someone appear to say something they didn’t. But there are other, perhaps under-explored uses for this technology, such as trying to fake a video of you dancing so it looks as though you have…
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Mankind Doesn’t Stand A Chance Now That Robotic Cockroaches Have Started Cooperating
The scourge of puppies, babies and robotic vacuums is no longer a problem for robotic cockroaches. Researchers at UC Berkeley have taught this pair of VelociRoACHes to cooperate and help each other tackle stairs using a tiny magnetic winch and old-fashioned teamwork.
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Scientists Can Now Herd Cells Like Cattle Using Electrical Fields
We’ve known that flesh wounds create disturbances in the skin’s bioelectric field since Emil du Bois-Reymond first placed an injured hand in a galvanometer in 1843. Thanks to a new discovery from a team at the University of Berkeley, we might soon be able to harness those currents to heal ourselves with electricity.