Thinks

A single honeybee has cloned itself hundreds of millions of times : Troubled workers can produce perfect clones and disrupt the nest; the queen can also produce asexually cannot perfect clones.

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/653621047187390464

Sand dunes can 'communicate' with each other : ‘Interact’ with each other would be a better term to use but a nice simple example of higher-level emergent behaviour from simple systems.

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/190659756847

Loki is a simple simulation of a one-dimensional world populated with simple coloured agents that replicate when they have enough energy. Their colour and ability to acquire energy is inherited f...

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/190625827467

Invisibility cloaks are coming; in case you haven’t seen them.

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/189010877372

“Cognitive Prosthesis” Enhances Productivity   AI-assisted todo list gamification. Would be good if the human improved and becomes progressively less dependent on it.

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/188520166382

Invertebrates just got cleverer… paper wasps capable of behavior that resembles logical reasoning. Transitive inference (”If A is greater than B, and B is greater than C, then A is greater ...

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/184754969842

Compliant mechanisms offer advantages in: Part count, Production processes, Price, Precise motion, Performance, Proportions, Portability, Predictably.

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/183421704397

First Known Photosynthetic Animal E. chlorotica sea slugs can uptake chloroplasts from the alga Vaucheria litorea via epithelial cells lining the walls of their digestive system which allows th...

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Cutest robot ever.

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/183276023122

Ant supercolonies can contain thousands of queen ants and cover thousands of square kilometres. Exactly how this has evolved and remains a stable strategy is not known. (via (1) Empire of the A...

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Two different-sized ant groups working together build larger and more complex nests than ant groups consisting of single-size ants.

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/182836854512

Morphology-changing robots. Interesting early steps… (via Robot Melts Its Bones to Change How It Walks - IEEE Spectrum )

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/182764834277

(via Robotic Fruit Fly Won’t Eat Your Fruit | Hackaday )

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/178390672827

» PDLab – research into Parkinson’s Disease Bits and Blobs

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Wireless, although still ‘tethered’ to a laser beam. (via The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off | UW News )

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IDEA - nonverbal algorithm assembly instructions

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(via 3D Printed Propellers Take to the Skies | Hackaday )

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Soft-body manta ray-inspired bot uses surrounding water as one of the electrodes to contract silicone pockets of hydrogel that flap the wings. It’s speedy, strong, temperature robust, wireless ...

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/159408717397

Computing with spider's webs : “It is known that spiders have sensitive mechanoreceptors on their legs that allow them to measure vibrations. Spiders also probe their webs by sending out vibr...

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/158698754752

3D scanned sandpit to 360 VR racetrack. Using AR to drive an RC car with onboard 360 camera around the sandpit would also be neat! Get your Cardboard in place to best view this.

https://thinks.2ne1.com/post/158440878692