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SF Magazine article on the neural efforts here and UCSF
http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/thinking-makes-it-go
I particularly enjoy the wacky timeline they came up with (it goes to 3000 AD!):
Where’s the date when we become free-floating energy blobs roaming the galaxy?
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ResearchGate
Since we were discussing setting up a forum similar to this (http://www.researchgate.net/) a while back I thought I’d post it here. It looks like it’s catching on pretty well now (1.3 million users).
I think, for science the other forums like academia.edu aren’t nearly as useful.
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Cyborg insect eyes at MEMS 2012
Ivan Aimo is presenting our insect eye work, led by former postdoc Amol Jadhav, at MEMS 2012; catch him there!
Wednesday poster session 189-W
A.D. Jadhav, I. Aimo, D. Cohen, P. Ledochowitsch, and M.M. Maharbiz
CYBORG EYES: MICROFABRICATED NEURAL INTERFACES IMPLANTED DURING THE DEVELOPMENT OF INSECT SENSORY ORGANS PRODUCE STABLE NEURORECORDINGS IN THE ADULT (pp 937)
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cyborg insects in science fiction
Check out this award winning short story by Richard A. Lovett and Mark Niemann-Ross that appeared in Analog:
http://www.analogsf.com/2011_04/phantom.shtml
cyborg insect swarms, ‘CI-MEMS’… even tenebrio and japanese beetles have cameos.
(Thanks to Mark Niemann-Ross for pointing us to this).
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beetle fuel cell at ECS
Jianjun Wei and Sameer Singhal along with Hirotaka Sato and Travis Massey have an oral presentation at the Electrochemical Society meeting this May:
Abstract Number/Title: # 1454: “Enzymatic Electro-oxidation of Glucose to Generate Energy from Live Insects” by J. Wei, S. Singhal, J. Ulyanova, U. Lindstrom, H. Sato, T. Massey, and M. Maharbiz
Presentation Type: Oral
Date/Time/Location: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at 16:40h in Room 2A, Level 2, Washington State Convention Center
Symposium: I2 – Biological Fuel Cells 5
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weirder than us
Courtesy of Mike Wolfson, people doing stranger things to beetles than us:
http://www.geekologie.com/2011/12/beetles-wearing-jurassic-park-character.php#more
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pre-2012 media links
For archival reasons, here are links to the main media coverage of our work prior to 2012. This list is not exhaustive.
- 12.2010 “Cyborg Beetles” featured in Scientific American
- 04.2010 Sisi Chen’s editorial, “Lieutenant Bug”, in the Berkeley Science Review
- 10.2009 “Electric Sweat” feature on transpirative power in Conservation Magazine
- Nov. 2009, TIME Magazine, The 50 Best Invention 2009, “The Cyborg Beetle”
- Oct. 2009, New Scientist “Free-flying cyborg insects steered from a distance”
- Oct. 2009, FOX NEWS
- March 2010, MIT Tech Review, TR10 2009 “Biological Machines”
- April 2009, Discover magazin “The pentagon’s beetle borgs”
- Feb. 2009, Robot Watch “Cyborg insect in progress”
- Jan. 2009, Satnews.com “Giant cyborg beetle (not the volkswagon) is army’s latest uav experiment”
- Jan. 2009, Wired Vision “HI-MEMS project: remote control of living insect,
- Jan. 2009, Tech-on Nikkei BP “US university shows radio-controlled live beetle”
- Jan. 2009, Slashdot “Radio controlled cyborg insects at mems 2009″
- April 2008, MEMS info.jp “MEMS Bio-interface implanted into a live beetle”
- March 2008, New Scientist “The Cyborg Animal Spies Hatching in the Lab”
- Jan. 2008, Tech-on Nikkei BP “MEMS Sensors Embedded in Beetles for Bio-Interfacing”
- 08.03.2009 engadget – high tech blog
- 08.03.2009 eco tech
- 08.03.2009 inhabitat
- 07.31.2009 yahoo news
- 07.30.2009 UK news scientist
- 07.30.2009 unu – merit : i&t weekly
- 07.15.2009 green optimistic
- 10.09.2006 now, that’s a power plant – BusinessWeek
- 09.25.2006 UM record: scholarship & creativity
- 09.20.2006 itnews: US boffins tap nature to solve energy crisis
- 09.20.2006 michigan energy news
- 09.19.2006 ferns: tiny motors powered by evaporation
- 09.19.2006 calibre
- 09.18.2006 ferns and electricity
- 09.18.2006 ferns provide model for nanodevice power
- 09.17.2006 tangledwing: ferns provide model for tiny motors powered by evaporation
- 09.15.2006 news guide
- 09.15.2006 transpiration actuation featured in morgenwelt german online news magazine
- 09.15.2006 microactuator design unfurls
- 09.14.2006 transpiration actuation press release on UM News
- 09.14.2006 nanowerk news
- 09.14.2006 physorg.com
- Fall.2005 transpiration actuation in WIMS World Newsletter
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Daniel’s dino work in Nature
Raptor Dan’s (Daniel Cohen) work in Bob Full’s lab resulted in a really neat paper that just appeared in Nature:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10710.html?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20120105
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