Month: March 2025

Fitter werden in künstlichen Welten? Das geht: Golem.de hat mit einem Virtual-Reality-Headset geboxt und geturnt - ein verschwitztes Experiment. Ein Erfahrungsbericht von Peter Steinlechner (Fitness, VR)

Mehr als nur Action: Deus Ex überließ dem Spieler die Kontrolle. Aber funktioniert das Abenteuer auch 25 Jahre nach seiner Veröffentlichung? Ein Erfahrungsbericht von Olaf Bleich und Benedikt Plass-Fleßenkämper (Deus Ex, Rollenspiel)

Kenntnisse in Microsoft Office sind heute unverzichtbar. Ein E-Learning-Paket vermittelt in über 14 Stunden alles zu Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint und Word, um Flexibilität und Effizienz im Arbeitsalltag zu erhöhen. (Golem Karrierewelt, Outlook)

The PineTab-V is a 10.1 inch tablet with a 1280 x 800 pixel IPS LCD display, 8GB of LPDDR4 memory, 128GB of eMMC storage, and a detachable keyboard with backlit keys. What really makes it different from most tablets though is that it’s powered by a RISC-V processor rather than an ARM or x86 chip. Pine64 began […]

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Last month Amazon introduced Alexa+ which uses generative AI to offer an enhanced version of Amazon’s voice assistant software. It will do a better job of engaging in natural-sounding conversations, remembering things you’ve told it in the past, and have the ability to interact with other apps and services on your behalf. But Alexa+ also […]

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Eine strukturierte Cloud-Governance ist essenziell, um Sicherheit, Compliance und Ressourcenmanagement in der Cloud zu steuern. Ein Online-Workshop zeigt, wie IT-Teams Cloud-Strategien entwickeln und umsetzen. (Golem Karrierewelt, Internet)

Anthony and Joe Russo's new sci-fi adventure film, The Electric State, is adapted from the graphic novel by Swedish artist/designer Simon Stålenhag. So naturally the directors wanted to create their own distinctive look and tone—complete with a colorful array of quirky misfit robots who team up with their human counterparts to take down an evil corporation.

(Some spoilers below but no major reveals.)

The Electric State is Stålenhag's third book, published in 2018. Like much of work, it's set in a dystopian, ravaged landscape: a reimagined America in an alternate 1990s where a war between robots and humans has devastated the country. Paragraphs of text, accompanied by larger artworks, tell the story of a teen girl named Michelle (Milly Bobby Brown) who must travel across the country with her robot companion, Cosmo (Alan Tudyk), to find her long-lost genius brother, Christopher (Woody Norman), while being pursued by a federal agent (Giancarlo Esposito).

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Die Ukraine wird in Kürze eine verbesserte Version der Boden-Luft-Bombe erhalten, die wohl gegen GPS-Störversuche gehärtet ist (Militär, Politik)

Deutsche Verbraucher lehnen Tesla in einer Umfrage überwiegend ab. 94 Prozent würden den Kauf nicht in Betracht ziehen. (Tesla, Elektroauto)

Biohybrid robots work by combining biological components like muscles, plant material, and even fungi with non-biological materials. While we are pretty good at making the non-biological parts work, we’ve always had a problem with keeping the organic components alive and well. This is why machines driven by biological muscles have always been rather small and simple—up to a couple centimeters long and typically with only a single actuating joint.

“Scaling up biohybrid robots has been difficult due to the weak contractile force of lab-grown muscles, the risk of necrosis in thick muscle tissues, and the challenge of integrating biological actuators with artificial structures,” says Shoji Takeuchi, a professor at the Tokyo University, Japan. Takeuchi led a research team that built a full-size, 18 centimeter-long biohybrid human-like hand with all five fingers driven by lab-grown human muscles.

Keeping the muscles alive

Out of all the roadblocks that keep us from building large-scale biohybrid robots, necrosis has probably been the most difficult to overcome. Growing muscles in a lab usually means a liquid medium to supply nutrients and oxygen to muscle cells seeded on petri dishes or applied to gel scaffoldings. Since these cultured muscles are small and ideally flat, nutrients and oxygen from the medium can easily reach every cell in the growing culture.

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