Do you want the T-800 Model 101 Terminator, because the journal of Science Robotics is showing us how you get the T-800 Model 101 Terminator. Given these robotic fingers are grown from rat muscles, we can probably just call Orkin instead of Sarah Connor.



To grow their robot’s muscles, they layered hydrogel sheets filled with myoblasts—rat muscle cells—on a robotic skeleton. The grown muscle is then stimulated with an electric current that forces it to contract.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Growing Rat Muscles onto Robot Fingers

Was there ever any doubt that once your mom and absent dad had adopted Facebook, that it would immediately prove to be uncool? Youtube, Instagram, and Snapchat now hold title to the most popular platforms by the folks that will will running the country in an generation or two, after they move out of their parents house. Pew Research has all the data, and there is a lot of it beyond what we are mentioning here. I did go dig up my MySpace account the other day. Amazingly, still there, and will be cooler than ever in another 10 years. Hi Tom!



This shift in teens’ social media use is just one example of how the technology landscape for young people has evolved since the Center’s last survey of teens and technology use in 2014-2015. Most notably, smartphone ownership has become a nearly ubiquitous element of teen life: 95% of teens now report they have a smartphone or access to one. These mobile connections are in turn fueling more-persistent online activities: 45% of teens now say they are online on a near-constant basis.

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Teens Ditching Facebook