Swarms of millions of molecular sized robots get busy building nanoscale stuff
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Molecular sized robots already exist, in nature and in the lab, but now the ones in the labs are getting smart and organised and that could change many things … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
This new self-healing semiconductor can withstand the radiation of a hundred Suns
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Radiation destroys electronics, but what if they could heal themselves to run forever? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. A few years ago I talked...
Researchers turn plants into biological computers to grow better crops
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By turning nature into a biological computer researchers can get plants to do all kinds of things they could never do before and design better crops. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from...
First molecular electronics chip opens the door to exabyte scale DNA storage
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future electronics and computers will be biological and synthetic, and this is just a step along the road in that direction … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Fantastic self-healing material regenerates after suffering “catastrophic damage”
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are lots of dangerous industrial applications, and other use cases, where equipment of all kinds suffer extreme wear and tear, this new material could extend the life of products by multiples of time. The idea of creating self-repairing machines has been a popular...
World’s first liquid transistor could usher in a new era of liquid computers
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Moore’s Law is slowing and as we look to move computing to the edge of the network we need new forms of computing platforms, this is the first step in building the worlds first liquid computer. For decades now transistors, those tiny electrical switches...
Caltech shows off self healing microchips
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Caltech have built a new kind of microchip that can learn to heal its own information pathways. One of the reasons why robots and artificial intelligence programs — even very sophisticated ones — do not qualify as living things is because they lack the capacity...
