This week — whatever happened to the transhumanists; synthetic embryos; wandering robots; virtual influencers; and more! More Than A Human Forever young, beautiful and scandal-free: The rise of South Korea’s virtual influencers Rozy is a social media influencer from South Korea with over 140K followers on Instagram. She travels around the world, promotes brands…

This week — turning dead spiders into robots; DNA-based artificial neural networks; 3% of new code at Google is AI-generated; and more! More Than A Human ▶ Teen Amputee On How Her Bionic Arms Changed Her Life (15:47) Here is an interview with Tilly Lockey — a teenage girl who lost both arms as…

This week — a digital celebrity from China; Sony’s racing AI is fast and nice; the UK to build a drone superhighway; radio-controlled fruit flies; and more! More Than A Human ▶ Hands-On with Mojo Augmented Reality Contact Lens (13:38) Tested got to check a prototype of Mojo Lens, an in-development contact lens with…

This week — DeepMind’s AI learns simple physics like a baby; autonomous cars jammed San Francisco; the coming AI chip boom; and more! More Than A Human A Paralyzed Man Used His Mind to Control Two Robotic Arms to Eat Cake After over 30 years of not being able to feed himself, a paralysed…

This week — AI training speed increased twofold; autonomous drones that inspect UK’s power grid; growing plants in the dark; and more! More Than A Human An Implantable Ice Pack Tries to Relieve Pain without Opioids An age-old advice to apply cold to pain has found a new application in this implantable ice pack…

This week — OpenAI’s AI learns to play Minecraft from YouTube; a robotic vest that acts as an extra layer of muscles; a robotic skin that feels pain; and more! More Than A Human Wearable muscles Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a wearable textile exomuscle that serves as an extra layer of muscles…

This week — Amazon plans to bring back the voices of the dead with Alexa; US first CRISPR therapy is nearly 100% effective 3 years on; 10 years of robotics at Amazon; and more! Artificial Intelligence Amazon’s Alexa could turn dead loved ones into digital assistant Amazon plans to let people turn…

This week — Google engineer claims an AI became sentient; making proteins from thin air; DALL-E generates memes; and more! More Than A Human Electrical Muscle Stimulation Takes the Work Out of Your Workouts Can you cram a 90-minute long workout into 20 minutes? According to people working with electrical muscle stimulation, yes, you…

This week — a robotic finger with human skin; Saudi Arabia plans to invest $1B a year into anti-ageing research; how AI is causing a new scientific revolution; and more! More Than A Human Saudi Arabia plans to spend $1 billion a year discovering treatments to slow aging The Saudi royal family has started…