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A vaccine could prevent Alzheimer’s-related cognitive decline, a laser can track down and kill cancer cells without breaking the skin and new bots on the factory floor know how to give humans some space. Plus, the cheeseburgers of the future will be missing one key ingredient: cows. Find out how that’s possible in this week’s coolest scientific news.

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Tiny robots will repair Britain's sewer system, an algorithm helps digital cameras see around corners and a controversial gene therapy technique could change the game for infertile people. All that and more in this week's coolest scientific advances.

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"Engineers at Stanford found a way to see around corners, their peers in China came up with a 3D-printing drone and scientists in England found a way to hack bacteria and turn them into drug factories. Are you ready for your weekly dose of amazing science?

Seeing Around Corners

Mr. Robot: Rodney Brooks Says Gentler, More Aware 'Cobots' Are Coming To Make Our Lives Easier

Tomas Kellner

November 17, 2017

Few people have done more to bring humans and robots together than Rodney Brooks. Two decades ago, the Australian inventor, mathematician and former MIT professor founded iRobot, the company that designed Roomba, a line of robots that zip around homes and clean dirty floors. Today, he’s still dreaming up clever ways to make robots do our dirty work — but in factories rather than living rooms.

What you’ve heard is true: The robots are coming to take our jobs, writes technologist and entrepreneur Aidan Cunniffe. But instead of fearing our machine counterparts, should we be thanking them? In the future, artificial intelligence and automation technology will begin to take over in a big way, transforming the entire way we do business. In fact, that future is closer.

Sound The Alarm: Robots Are Disrupting (Far Too Few) Jobs

Robert D Atkinson Information Technology And Innovation Foundation

John Wu

June 19, 2017

It has become an article of faith that workers today are experiencing almost unprecedented levels of labor-market disruption and insecurity: Robots are automating factory jobs, kicking lunch-pail workers into the unemployment line. Taxi drivers are being displaced by Uber. Artificial intelligence is even taking over some of the tasks that lawyers and doctors used to do.

America’s manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization.

It Shoots, It Scores! The FIRST Robotics Competition Inspires the Next Generation Of Engineers

Bruce Watson

May 15, 2017

Coach Doug Wildes knows that no matter how hard you train, sometimes the difference between winning and losing comes down to a toss of the ball. Even when it’s a robot doing the tossing.

The Weekend Edition: Melding Mind and Machine: How Close are We?

James Wu

Rajesh P N Rao

May 14, 2017

Just as ancient Greeks fantasized about soaring flight, today’s imaginations dream of melding minds and machines as a remedy to the pesky problem of human mortality. Can the mind connect directly with artificial intelligence, robots and other minds through brain-computer interface (BCI) technologies to transcend our human limitations?

For robots to be most useful when working alongside humans, we'll have to figure out how to make robots that can literally lend us a hand when our own two are not enough, writes Taskin Padir of Northeastern University.

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For robots to be most useful when working alongside humans, we'll have to figure out how to make robots that can literally lend us a hand when our own two are not enough, writes Taskin Padir of Northeastern University.