• Robot Hand With Working Tendons Printed in One Go

    Robot Hand With Working Tendons Printed in One Go
    A skeletal robotic hand with working ligaments and tendons can now be 3D-printed in one run. The creepy accomplishment was made possible by a new approach to additive manufacturing that can print both rigid and elastic materials at the same time in high resolution. The new work is the result of a collaboration between researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology spin-out called Inkbit, based in Medford, Mass. The group has devised a new 3D inkjet-printing
  • ‘Hallucinate’ chosen as Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year

    The psychological verb gained an extra meaning in 2023 that ‘gets to the heart of why people are talking about artificial intelligence’Cambridge dictionary’s word of the year for 2023 is “hallucinate” – a verb that gained an additional meaning this year.The original definition of the chosen word is to “seem to see, hear, feel, or smell” something that does not exist, usually because of “a health condition or because you have taken a drug&rdqu