Episode 175 - TRANSHUMAN DEIFICATION: THE NEW WORLD HAS A CHIP ON ITS SHOULDER W/ GONZ SHIMURA

Harvard University created the Octobot, described as an “adorable
step toward the robot.” Employing three-dimensional printing and
silicone gel, the flexible, rubbery body has no batteries or rigid
parts. Instead, chemicals course through its veins to give it
power.

Bio-engineers at the same university also created a tiny
stingray-inspired robot, fusing heart cells from rats to a silicone
body and added a gene that reacts to blue light. They were then
able to control it by using pulses of blue light. It’s not an
organism – or at least they aren’t’ calling that – but it has a
beating heart and it is very much living.

Meanwhile, lifelike androids are greeting shoppers in Japan, and
last week it was announced that a baby with three sets of DNA was
born.

Originally Broadcast On 10/05/2016