The latest in robotics comes from the Virginia Tech research center in the US: the possibility that the mechanical devices of the future can be controlled by… bacteria. But it is possible? And what advantages does it have?
Her name is Valkyrie (Very deep Autonomous Laser-powered Kilowatt-class Yo-yoing Robotic Ice Explorer). It is a cryobot (robot designed to operate on glacial ice) devised by NASA to tunnel through the ice sheets to penetrate the subterranean seas that are more difficult to access. The cryobot is already in the testing phase on Alaska's Matanuska Glacier. If the project is successful, it will be the first step in sending you to explore the underground oceans of icy moons like Jupiter or Europa or even outside our solar system - someday.
It is "Westworld" (translated in Spain as "Metal souls"), a 1973 science fiction film written and directed by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, The Lost World), which places us at an indeterminate moment in the future in the one in which the protagonist is a high-tech amusement park, "Delos", which shows its visitors the ability to interact with humanoid robots integrated in different settings of history such as Ancient Rome or the Middle Ages. The ability to interact with visitors is such that they even responded to propositions of a sexual nature.
The electric eel, also called moray eel, is a typical fish from the Amazon basin and the Orinoco River, whose most notable characteristic is that, apart from being a very agile fish that can swim in multiple directions, it is capable of emitting discharges. electrical power from a group of specialized cells, making it both their hunting system and their survival and communication system with other eels.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
