The demand for Agility Robotics’s humanoid walking robot ‘Digit’ has increased after the company started conducting tests of its finished prototype around Albany, Oregon. The battery-powered, weatherproof, bipedal robot can deliver packages and maneuver through urban and natural environments. Digit can lift 40-pound (18 kg) packages and can withstand....
> Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke Facebook has unveiled a neural wristband that allows users to control augmented reality with their minds. The new interface is based on technology from CTRL-labs, the startup Facebook acquired in 2019. The project, which is still in the...
On Monday, March 15th, Elon Musk announced in a tweet that he would be selling his own techno song about NFTs as an NFT. The tweet included the song itself in the post, which we as the Nexverse team actually really enjoyed listening to. He later rescinded the sale saying...
Researchers at Purdue University in the U.S. have developed a soft contact lens that can diagnose and monitor ocular diseases in a novel, painless and unobtrusive way. The team developed the lenses by integrating ultra-thin, stretchable biosensors with soft commercial contact lenses via wet adhesive bonding. The biosensors on...
San-Francisco-based architecture firm Studio Mortazavi [https://studiomortazavi.com/] and nonprofit organization Thinking Huts [https://www.thinkinghuts.org/] will build the world’s first 3D-printed school in Madagascar. The construction of the school will take place in the second half of 2021. The project aims to get students into the classroom...
An Artificial Intelligence platform called Promethean AI [https://www.prometheanai.com/]allows people who do not have any prior programming experience to create their own game environments by just using voice commands. Users can give commands like “Build me a ‘70s bedroom”, “Move the desk”, and “Turn the table sideways”...
