Showing posts with label artificial life. Show all posts
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Monday, February 3, 2025

The Economy of Self Ingestion and Digital Replica Management


The self-replicate never sounded so good. 

Senate’s NO FAKES act hopes to make unauthorized “digital replicas” illegal
Aug 2024, Ars Technica

Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act of 2024. [link]

The NO FAKES Act would create legal recourse for people whose digital representations are created without consent. It would hold both individuals and companies liable for producing, hosting, or sharing these unauthorized digital replicas, including those created by generative AI. Due to generative AI technology that has become mainstream in the past two years, creating audio or image media fakes of people has become fairly trivial, with easy photorealistic video replicas likely next to arrive.

To protect a person's digital likeness, the NO FAKES Act introduces a "digital replication right" that gives individuals exclusive control over the use of their voice or visual likeness in digital replicas. This right extends 10 years after death, with possible five-year extensions if actively used. It can be licensed during life and inherited after death, lasting up to 70 years after an individual's death. Along the way, the bill defines what it considers to be a "digital replica":

DIGITAL REPLICA - The term "digital replica" means a newly created, computer-generated, highly realistic electronic representation that is readily identifiable as the voice or visual likeness of an individual that - (A) is embodied in a sound recording, image, audiovisual work, including an audiovisual work that does not have any accompanying sounds, or transmission - (i) in which the actual individual did not actually perform or appear; or (ii) that is a version of a sound recording, image, or audiovisual work in which the actual individual did perform or appear, in which the fundamental character of the performance or appearance has been materially altered; and (B) does not include the electronic reproduction, use of a sample of one sound recording or audiovisual work into another, remixing, mastering, or digital remastering of a sound recording or audiovisual work authorized by the copyright holder.


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Digital twin method can boost wireless network speed and reliability
Jul 2024, phys.org and written by Matt Shipman the original

"Systems can't put everything in edge caches, and storing too much redundant data on an edge server can slow down the server if the data are using too many computational resources. As a result, systems are constantly making decisions about which data packages to store and which data packages can be evicted.

The new edge caching optimization method, called D-REC, uses a digital twin to take real-time data from the wireless network and uses it to conduct simulations to predict which data are most likely to be requested by users. These predictions are then sent back to the network to inform the network's edge caching decisions. Because the simulations are performed by a computer that is outside of the network, this does not slow down network performance.

via North Carolina State University: Zifan Zhang et al, Digital Twin-Assisted Data-Driven Optimization for Reliable Edge Caching in Wireless Networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2024.3431575

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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Biocomputers and Engineered Living Material


Using mycelium to create a self-healing wearable leather-like material
Apr 2023, phys.org

Mushroom leather made of mycelium mats

via Newcastle and Northumbria Universities: Elise Elsacker et al, Fungal Engineered Living Materials: The Viability of Pure Mycelium Materials with Self‐Healing Functionalities, Advanced Functional Materials (2023). DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202301875



New biocomputing method uses enzymes as catalysts for DNA-based molecular computing
May 2023, phys.org

Traditional computer hardware is limited in its ability to interface with living organs, which has constrained the development of medical devices. Through the use of biological molecules such as DNA or proteins, biocomputing has the potential to overcome these limitations.

Biocomputing is typically done either with live cells or with non-living, enzyme-free molecules. This team has developed a platform for a third method of biocomputing: Trumpet, or Transcriptional RNA Universal Multi-Purpose GatE PlaTform.

"Trumpet is a non-living molecular platform, so we don't have most of the problems of live cell engineering. We don't have to overcome evolutionary limitations against forcing cells to do things they don't want to do."

via University of Minnesota: Judee A. Sharon et al, Trumpet is an operating system for simple and robust cell-free biocomputing, Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37752-x


Scientists make common pain killers from pine trees instead of crude oil
Jul 2023, phys.org

Using the "biorefinery" approach, the precursors for paracetamol and ibuprofen, as well as beta-blockers and an asthma inhaler drug, as well as other chemicals for perfumes and cleaning products have all been made from biorenewable β-pinene, a component of turpentine and by-product from the paper industry. (Because using oil to make pharmaceuticals is unsustainable.)

via University of Bath: Joshua Dale Tibbetts et al, Sustainable Syntheses of Paracetamol and Ibuprofen from Biorenewable β‐pinene, ChemSusChem (2023). DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202300670

AI Art - Bioalchemy Neural Net 2 - 2023

3D-printed 'living material' could clean up contaminated water
Sep 2023, phys.org

"Engineered living material" - 3D-printed structure made of a seaweed-based polymer called alginate and bacteria that have been genetically engineered to produce an enzyme that transforms various organic pollutants into benign molecules. The bacteria were also engineered to self-destruct in the presence of a molecule called theophylline, which is often found in tea and chocolate. "What's innovative is the pairing of a polymer material with a biological system to create a living material."

via University of California San Diego Materials Research Science and Engineering Center: Debika Datta et al, Phenotypically complex living materials containing engineered cyanobacteria, Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40265-2


Metal-loving microbes offer a green way to refine rare earth elements
Oct 2023, phys.org

Cornell scientists have characterized the genome of Shewanella oneidensis - a metal-loving bacteria with an affinity for rare earth elements - to replace the harsh chemical processing with a benign practice called biosorption.

via Cornell: Sean Medin et al, Genomic characterization of rare earth binding by Shewanella oneidensis, Scientific Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42742-6


New pipeline makes valuable organic acid from plants—saving money and emissions
Oct 2023, phys.org

They're making succinic acid from sugarcane using Issatchenkia orientalis, a yeast like Saccharomyces cerevisiae or the bacteria Escherichia coli, but one that thrives in pH 3-4 acidic conditions. This means it doesn't produce unwanted by-products that need to be separated-out at high cost. 

The researchers did extensive metabolic engineering to rewire I. orientalis to produce robust levels of succinic acid, which is widely used additive for food and beverages.

via University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, and Princeton: Vinh G. Tran et al, An end-to-end pipeline for succinic acid production at an industrially relevant scale using Issatchenkia orientalis, Nature Communications (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41616-9

AI Art - Bioalchemy Neural Net 3 - 2023

Scientists report completion of chromosome XI, a major step towards creating the world's first synthetic yeast
Nov 2023, phys.org

World's first synthetic yeast genome -- The synthetic chromosome has replaced one of the natural chromosomes of a yeast cell and, after a painstaking debugging process, now allows the cell to grow with the same fitness level as a natural cell. The synthetic genome will not only help scientists to understand how genomes function, but it will have many applications. 
 
via University of Nottingham and Imperial College London: Synthetic yeast chromosome XI design provides a testbed for the study of extrachromosomal circular DNA dynamics, Cell Genomics (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100418.


Charged 'molecular beasts' as the foundation for new chemical compounds
Nov 2023, phys.org

They are modifying mass spectrometers to synthesize new molecules.

Note that a mass spectrometer is supposed to break things apart so you can look at them one by one, but this is now making entirely new chemicals with parts of the broken molecules. 

The basic strategy of controlling reactive chemicals in mass spectrometers is not new, but the  substances are only produced in tiny quantities and cannot be extracted. They are destroyed when the signal used for analyses is generated. 

They're doing "preparative mass spectrometry" and making new molecules. 

via Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at Leipzig University: Markus Rohdenburg et al, Chemical Synthesis with Gaseous Molecular Ions: Harvesting [B12Br11N2]− from a Mass Spectrometer, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2023). DOI: 10.1002/anie.202308600


New antibiotic approach proves promising against Lyme bacterium
Nov 2023, phys.org

Change some of the words, or not even, and it sounds like the most diabolical scifi weapon scenario:

"This transport mechanism gets internalized in the bacterium and brings in a molecule that causes what we've described as a berserker reaction - a programmed death response," said lead author Timothy Haystead, Ph.D., professor in Duke's Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology. "It wipes out the bacteria - sterilizes the culture with a single dose of light. And then when you look at what occurs with electron microscopy, you see the collapse of the chromosome."

via Duke University Medical Center: Dave L. Carlson et al, Targeting Borrelia burgdorferi HtpG with a berserker molecule, a strategy for anti-microbial development, Cell Chemical Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2023.10.004

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Friday, December 16, 2022

Diamonds Are a Laser's Best Friend


Diamond mirrors for high-powered lasers
May 2022, phys.org

High-powered lasers do high-powered damage, so the materials that interact with them (like a laser gun) need to be strong. Diamonds with nano-structures etched into them do the job. 

via Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences: Haig A. Atikian et al, Diamond mirrors for high-power continuous-wave lasers, Nature Communications (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30335-2

Image credit: Thermoelectrics - Vienna University of Technology - 2022 [link]


'Life-like' lasers can self-organize, adapt their structure, and cooperate
Jul 2022, phys.org

I don't understand this at all. But I like the sound of it. 

Next, the team will study how to improve the lasers' autonomous behavior to render them even more life-like. 

via Imperial College London: Riccardo Sapienza, Self-organized lasers from reconfigurable colloidal assemblies, Nature Physics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01656-2


Why lasers are being used to write inside diamonds
Oct 2022, BBC News

The laser can make atomic-scale changes to create circuitry inside the diamond. That could be useful for making instruments for radiation detection, where a diamond's durability is also an asset. Potentially such circuitry could also be used in quantum computers.


Researchers produce nanodiamonds capable of delivering medicinal and cosmetic remedies through the skin
Sep 2022, phys.org

Laser-based optical method quantifies nanodiamond penetration into layers of the skin and determines their location and concentration within body tissue in a non-invasive manner — eliminating the need for a biopsy. Much like trucks that make deliveries, artificial diamonds can deliver various medications to intended targets.

via Bar-Ilan University: Channa Shapira et al, Noninvasive Nanodiamond Skin Permeation Profiling Using a Phase Analysis Method: Ex Vivo Experiments, ACS Nano (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c03613

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Things Come To Life


Surely we won't see it until it's already infiltrating every kingdom and phylum -- what once was just a dumb robot, or a box of rocks, or a pile of dust, will soon be alive and trying to make its way in the world, commanding the same respect as the river in Ecuador that has rights, or the endangered animals in the Galapagos that have rights, or the dematerialized algorithms that exist as a dimensionally camouflaged meta-entity powered by economic incentive and psychological manipulation, which doesn't even need rights because it's the lifeline of global commerce. 

One day we'll all be held ethically liable for treating our stuff like inert, soul-less matter.



Starfish embryos swim in formation like a 'living crystal,' could inform the design of self assembling 
Jul 2022, phys.org

Fakhri says the team's observations of starfish crystals was a "serendipitous discovery." 

She and her colleagues fertilized thousands of starfish embryos, then watched as they swam to the surface of shallow dishes. "There are thousands of embryos in a dish, and they start forming this crystal structure that can grow very large," Fakhri says. "We call it a crystal because each embryo is surrounded by six neighboring embryos in a hexagon that is repeated across the entire structure, very similar to the crystal structure in graphene."

via MIT: Nikta Fakhri, Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals, Nature (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04889-6.


A step toward the creation of materials controlled by artificial genes
Aug 2022, phys.org

"New types of soft material robots that are controlled by chemistry instead of electronics."

Say you're making artificial humans without saying you're making artificial humans.

"Engineering synthetic chemical systems that can emulate the complex behaviors of natural gene networks that operate inside diagnostic, self-healing materials rather than organisms."

via Johns Hopkins University: Samuel W. Schaffter et al, Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks, Nature Chemistry (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-01001-3


Synthetic mouse embryo develops beating heart
Aug 2022, BBC News

Scientists in Cambridge have created synthetic mouse embryos in a lab, without using eggs or sperm, which show evidence of a brain and beating heart.

At present, UK law permits human embryos to be studied in the laboratory only up to the fourteenth day of development, but there are no rules around synthetic embryos.

via University of Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology: Synthetic embryos complete gastrulation to neurulation and organogenesis. Gianluca Amadei et al. Nature. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05246-3


Robo-bug: A rechargeable, remote-controllable cyborg cockroach
Sep 2022, phys.org

Powered by a solar cell which is funny because roaches hang out in the dark mostly.

RIKEN: Yujiro Kakei et al, Integration of body-mounted ultrasoft organic solar cell on cyborg insects with intact mobility, npj Flexible Electronics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41528-022-00207-2


Nanotubes illuminate the way to living photovoltaics
Sep 2022, phys.org

"We put nanotubes inside of bacteria" 

via Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne:  Ardemis Boghossian et al, Carbon nanotube uptake in cyanobacteria for near-infrared imaging and enhanced bioelectricity generation in living photovoltaics, Nature Nanotechnology (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41565-022-01198-x


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GlyNAC supplementation reverses aging hallmarks in aging humans
Aug 2022, phys.org

A randomized, double blind human clinical trial conducted by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reveals that supplementation with GlyNAC—a combination of glycine and N-acetylcysteine—improves many age-associated defects in older humans and powerfully promotes healthy aging. 

via Baylor College of Medicine:  Premranjan Kumar et al, Supplementing Glycine and N-Acetylcysteine (GlyNAC) in Older Adults Improves Glutathione Deficiency, Oxidative Stress, Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Inflammation, Physical Function, and Aging Hallmarks: A Randomized Clinical Trial, The Journals of Gerontology: Series A (2022). DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glac135


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Thursday, June 3, 2021

Full Steam Ahead


Mar 2021, phys.org

Behold, the most hardcore scifi illustration you've ever seen. 

I call it the kufizoid, because I envision it as a hat we will all wear, and it will be alive on its own, and we will live with it in symbiosis as it instantiates our autopoetic anthropic amalgam of splinter-selves. You might call it an embroidered lace jellyfish biobot that sucks itself to your head to control your brain. But no need to be afraid; you'll love it. 

But what exactly are we looking at in this picture above? Scientists first made mini-brains-in-a-dish, and then created this kufi-probe, outfitted with electrodes, heating elements, oxygen sensors and light fibers to perform optogenetic experiments where they can control genes with light pulses. This probe-hat fits nice and snug right on top of that little brain bubble that lives in a dish. 

One day, somewhere between now and the day we become brains in a dish ourselves, we will wear these devices on our heads, to monitor and control our cortical activity, and to synchronize us with each other, so we can build a fully dematerialized anthroposphere, and live there happily together. 

But let's continue: 
This platform then enabled scientists to perform complex studies of human tissue without directly involving humans or performing invasive testing. 
-source: phys.org
Obviously the value of such a device is that we can study the human brain while it's not inside a human head. But in reading this, we get a glimpse of what this investigative approach will really do for us in the future -- we will use it in tandem with synthetic body doubles, running simulations by the billions every second, and in real-time, to aid us in planning and executive function. Your synthetic body double will be networked to every other person's double, so that eventually, all our doubles will become more and more enmeshed with each other, not in the physical world with all its physical limitations, but in the network, aka the anthroposphere, where the only limitation is the speed of light. And then, there will be no more doubles; we will become the double. 

image credit: Northwestern University

Post Script:
Cortical spheroids used to be called cerebral organoids, so it now sounds a lot less heavy on the ethics scale. You might call it etymological camouflage. And "engineered assembloids" is even better. 


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Friday, July 10, 2020

When Biology Takes a Back Seat


Powerful antibiotic discovered using machine learning for first time
Feb 2020, The Guardian
The drug works in a different way to existing antibacterials and is the first of its kind to be found by setting AI loose on vast digital libraries of pharmaceutical compounds.
“In terms of antibiotic discovery, this is absolutely a first,” said Regina Barzilay, a senior researcher on the project and specialist in machine learning at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 
“I think this is one of the more powerful antibiotics that has been discovered to date,” added James Collins, a bioengineer on the team at MIT. “It has remarkable activity against a broad range of antibiotic-resistant pathogens.” 
To find new antibiotics, the researchers first trained a “deep learning” algorithm to identify the sorts of molecules that kill bacteria. To do this, they fed the program information on the atomic and molecular features of nearly 2,500 drugs and natural compounds, and how well or not the substance blocked the growth of the bug E coli.
Once the algorithm had learned what molecular features made for good antibiotics, the scientists set it working on a library of more than 6,000 compounds under investigation for treating various human diseases. Rather than looking for any potential antimicrobials, the algorithm focused on compounds that looked effective but unlike existing antibiotics. This boosted the chances that the drugs would work in radical new ways that bugs had yet to develop resistance to. 
Jonathan Stokes, the first author of the study, said it took a matter of hours for the algorithm to assess the compounds and come up with some promising antibiotics. One, which the researchers named “halicin” after Hal, the astronaut-bothering AI in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, looked particularly potent.

Reprogramming of immune system cures child with often-fatal fungal infection
June 2020, phys.org
"Immune modulation isn't currently part of the strategy with any of these severe infections," said Dr. Manish Butte, the report's senior author, who holds the E. Richard Stiehm Endowed Chair in Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "Our case suggests that rather than hoping to get the upper hand with more and more antibiotics or antifungals, we can have some success by combining these established approaches with the new idea of programming the patient's immune response to better fight the infection."
Synthetic red blood cells mimic natural ones, and have new abilities
June 2020, phys.org

Bioengineers have made synthetic red blood cells that have all the same abilities of natural blood cells, and even a few more.

On a sidenote, I'm also thinking about the Impossible burger that uses synthetically produced hemoglobin. And on a supersidenote, that had me wondering what's worse, humans eating animals, or humans trying to avoid eating animals so they re-engineer a bacteria's genetic code so that it can make blood, and then take that blood and add it to a plant, so that we can eat plants that taste like meat. Like, bacteria didn't even bleed before we got involved, and now that they do, doesn't that mean we should stop eating them too?

Post Script on Biomimicry

A self-cleaning surface that repels even the deadliest superbugs
Dec 2019, phys.org

Researchers develop new method to remove dust on solar panels
Dec 2019, phys.org
Taking a cue from the self-cleaning properties of the lotus leaf, researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have shed new light on microscopic forces and mechanisms that can be optimized to remove dust from solar panels to maintain efficiency and light absorption. The new technique removed 98 percent of dust particles.
In a new study published in Langmuir, the researchers confirmed that modifying the surface properties of solar panels may greatly reduce the amount of dust remaining on the surface, and significantly increase the potential of solar energy harvesting applications in the desert.
Particle removal increased from 41 percent on hydrophilic smooth Si wafers to 98 percent on superhydrophobic Si-based nanotextured surfaces.
"We determined that the reason for the increased particle removal is not low friction between the droplets and the superhydrophobic surfaces," Heckenthaler says. "Rather, it is the increase in the forces that can detach particles from the surfaces. The experimental methods we used and the criterion for particle removal we derived can be implemented to engineer self-cleaning surfaces exhibiting different chemistries and/or textures."
-image source: I really hate it when websites don't credit their artwork (almost as much as I hate the threeway image clusterfu**ing olympics performed by Google-Getty-Pinterest triangle). This image came from the site at this link, but they list no artist credits.

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Friday, July 12, 2019

So Fake


There's so much going on in the Fake sector that I just can't keep track; here's a few bits:

Author pulls software that used deep learning to virtually undress women
June 2019, Ars Technica

This is it. Deep learning, neural networks, generative adversarial networks, all that. We see now the world in the way it looked when the internet first started showing up in people's homes, but then all of the sudden, a phone could connect to the internet while you're walking down the street.

Deep learning is the robots doing things humans never thought a robot could do, and things we never even thought to ask for. It's absolute magic, and it's about to completely f--- our sh-- up.

Mona Lisa guest on TV? Researchers work out talking heads from photos, art
May 2019, phys.org

We can now extrapolate from photo to video. Is that what Mona Lisa really looked like? Does it really matter? It is astutely pointed out that unlike previous techniques, this one doesn't need 3-D modelling to make the leap.

And how?
"Lengthy meta-learning" that's how.

Facebook removes accounts from Russia, Iran for 'coordinated inauthentic behavior'
Mar 2019, Reuters

Has a nice ring to it. Reminds me of "Low-Credibility Information"

Anyway, the accounts were removed for their behavior and not their content. Let that be a lesson. Not sure if I see this as a good thing because it means that the screening algorithms are sophisticated enough to identify patterns of activity rather than simple vis/text content recognition, or it's a bad thing because it's getting harder and harder to get away with illicit activity on the web. Depends on which side you're on I guess.

Supporters in Trump Facebook adverts were actors
July 2019, BBC News

I think I'm not even mad.That's what stock footage is for, no? I mean, what is authenticity; Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas type stuff.

Melbourne fake Chinese beggars scam busted by police
July 2019, AUNews

Last but not least; it wouldn't be a report on the state of the fake without some of the old masters showing up.

From the same people who brought you the fake zoo with a legit dog purported to be a lion, we now bring you -- fake homeless people!

They are literally shipped from China to Australia to look disheveled and beg for money. I refuse to believe it but in the article they're talking about them clearing a few hundred dollars a day. Fake homeless people. It's one thing when you shave your head and throw on a saffron robe to be a begging Buddhist, but to be a part of an international underground beggar syndicate where you don't shower for weeks and lie prostrate on the ground, that's dedication.

*Actually, the more I look into this, the less funny it becomes. It's way more common than it should be, and devolves into maiming kids to use as bait; few people can resist giving money to a crippled kid on the street.


Post Script
On the Buddhist Beggar Syndicate and the geographic function of susceptibility:

"The men targeted out-of-towners, [Robert Hammond, executive director and co-founder of Friends of the High Line] said, adding that his office staff had a rule of thumb for watching the interactions: --Each second a visitor was willing to talk to one of the robed men was equal to 50 miles away from New York City that the person probably lived.-- New Yorkers would not give the men even a second’s worth of their time, Mr. Hammond added."
-The Fake Monks Are Back, Aggressively Begging
Christopher Mele, New York Times, July 1, 2016

Post Post Script

^Here we have a refined specimen. I can't tell you exactly what makes this jump out at me, but it screams "robot". Maybe it's a semibot, same difference, the purpose is to manipulate; there's something intentional about it. Maybe because people don't really comment on a message board in order to influence others, but to voice their opinion, and the two look pretty different. 

Notes
The spread of low-credibility content by social bots
Chengcheng Shao, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Onur Varol, Kai-Cheng Yang, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer. Nature Communications. Volume 9, Article number: 4787 (2018)

Here we analyze 14 million messages spreading 400 thousand articles on Twitter during ten months in 2016 and 2017.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018

2D 3D Alchemy


Something special about origami these days. Maybe atom-thin metamaterials that are more 2D than 3D. Maybe protein folding. Maybe because it can produce extremely complex forms out of relatively simple algorithms. Origami takes this place between flat and voluminous, delicate and robust (ever see those paper sandals?), and now between ancient and modern. Here we see origami helping to make super-strong soft robots, but previously there's been examples of it being used in programmable shapeshifting and DNA nanomanufacturing.

Origami robot muscles lift 1,000 times its own weight
Jan 2018, BBC

Artificial muscles which allow soft robots to lift up to 1,000 times their own weight have been developed by researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Inspired by origami, the muscles can be programmed a range of motions including twisting and rotation. -BBC

image source


Post Script

Origami Supreme
Network Address, 2016

DNA Nanomanufacturing
Network Address, 2012

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