The government of South Korea is drawing up a code of ethics to prevent human abuse of robots and vice versa. The Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for robotics users and manufacturers, as well as guidelines on ethical standards to be programmed into robots.
Scientists have made a brain discovery that could help lead to thought- controlled machines. Recent experiments have shown that a little- understood part of the brain that we use to process information about objects also plays a role when we move a hand or other limb.
A new study suggests it is more energy efficient to communicate across interstellar space by sending physical material?a sort of message in a bottle?than beams of electromagnetic radiation. Currently, the bulk of the effort to identify extraterrestrial civilizations has focused on the electromagnetic spectrum.
Israeli scientists have devised a computer made from DNA that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC.