Science has the technology to measure the activity of every gene within a single individual cell, and just one experiment can generate thousands of cells worth of data. Researchers have now revolutionised the way this data is analysed – by using virtual reality.
A floating, robotic film could be trained to hoover oil spills at sea or remove contaminants from drinking water.
With feet and legs like a peregrine falcon, engineers have created a robot that can perch and carry objects like a bird.
"The idea is for people to eventually use this information to decide whether they need to get a COVID-19 test or self-isolate.”
Micro-sized cameras have great potential to spot problems in the human body and enable sensing for super-small robots, but past approaches captured fuzzy, distorted images with limited fields of view. Now, researchers have overcome these obstacles with an ultracompact camera the size of a coarse grain of salt.