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BEAM ME UP SCOTTY. "Fragmented human genomes could be shipped toward the stars and reconstructed upon their arrival, spawning the first interstellar citizens and avoiding the problems of long-distance space survival. That's just one idea — proposed by genome pioneer J. Craig Venter — emerging from the field of dreams seeded by DARPA's 100-Year Starship project." http://lnkd.in/d4bymE2 View in LinkedIn

JAPANESE ROBO NURSE PROGRAMS. "The country could save ... about $21 billion in health care costs each year by using robots to monitor the nation’s elderly ... many robotics companies are already creating machines that look and speak like human beings ... and several versions of the “Robotic Nurse” already exist." http://lnkd.in/dE5v3mY View in LinkedIn

J CRAIG VENTER "who created the world's first synthetic life, is building a gadget that could teletransport medicine and vaccines into our homes or to colonists in space. And should DNA-based life ever be found there, a digital version could be transmitted back to Earth, where scientists could recreate the extraterrestrial organism using their own life-printing box." Medicine today, life tomorrow plus a few. http://lnkd.in/d4sgBQY View in LinkedIn

THE SILVER TSUNAMI problem of eldercare is driving robotic developments that work with humans, particularly in Japan, who lead robotics. THe other driver of advanced robotics is DARPA, the military's venture capital arm. Both have bearing on the need for robotics in space travel. View in LinkedIn

"DIGITAL BIOLOGICAL CONVERTER of future humans to space colonies is a possibility arising from the work of J Craig Venter, who envisions no need for physical transport to recreate life at the speed of light on another planet". (PS: Still a long way to go for anything but DNA). http://lnkd.in/dTdXVEH View in LinkedIn

ROBOTIC ELDER CARE AS A PROXY. "Six elderly people across Europe currently have a new companion: a GiraffPlus robot, or Mr. Robin ... It’s part of an EU-funded project to use robotics to help elderly people who want to stay at home remain independent past the point they’d usually be unable to live alone due to physical or cognitive difficulties." http://lnkd.in/dRWXK7R View in LinkedIn

"DIGITAL BIOLOGICAL CONVERTER of future humans to space colonies is a possibility arising from the work of J Craig Venter, who envisions no need for physical transport to recreate life at the speed of light on another planet". (PS: Still a long way to go for anything but DNA). http://lnkd.in/dTdXVEH View in LinkedIn

SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS. "Dr. Harlow created inanimate surrogate mothers for the rhesus infants from wire and wood. Each infant became attached to its particular mother, recognizing its unique face and preferring it above all others. Overwhelmingly, the infant macaques preferred spending their time clinging to the cloth mother." http://lnkd.in/dUsjUcX View in LinkedIn

MICROGRAVITY 3D PRINTING. "Researchers ... are experimenting with 3D printing organs, blood vessels, and human embryonic stem cells. Eventually, the ability to print these items on demand away from Earth will lead to the freedom from Earth that extended duration space exploration will require." Eventually, maybe. http://lnkd.in/dxsGCMs View in LinkedIn

MAGICAL BIOSEQUENCER FANTASY. "The spacecraft "cargo" could be limited just to the genetic information of humans stored in as computer files. In this case, sperm and egg cells would need to be recreated by a biosequencer at the target planet (this proposal is currently not technologically feasible)." Nice footnote. http://lnkd.in/dFaBDUh View in LinkedIn