Skywalker Hand, Planet Discovery and more -- Mind Blow #115

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Oldest Evidence Of Life On Earth (0:00)
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/12/12/1718063115.abstract
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ancient-fossil-microorganisms-indicate-that-life-in-the-universe-is-common

Baby Born After 24 Years As Frozen Embryo (0:19)
http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/1848813372.html
http://www.wate.com/news/local-news/woman-26-gives-birth-to-baby-who-spent-24-years-as-frozen-embryo/883530134

Skywalker Hand (0:39)
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2017/12/11/force-strong-amputee-controls-individual-prosthetic-fingers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t8p43m1Iuw

Third Arm Drummer Featured In Mind Blow #102
https://youtu.be/sQxsItUXH6E?t=3m4s

FDA Approves Gene Therapy For Rare Form Of Blindness (1:09)
https://www.nature.com/news/fda-advisers-back-gene-therapy-for-rare-form-of-blindness-1.22819
http://ir.sparktx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/fda-approves-spark-therapeutics-luxturnatm-voretigene-neparvovec
https://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/BloodVaccinesandOtherBiologics/CellularTissueandGeneTherapiesAdvisoryCommittee/UCM579290.pdf

Novel Nano-CT Device Creates High-Resolution X-Ray Images (1:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXRpv5yk5OM
http://www.pnas.org/content/114/47/12378.abstract

Brain Stimulation Can Improve Memory For A Day (2:21)
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/12/amygdala_stimulation_memory/
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/12/12/1714058114.abstract

maplab: Visual Inertial Mapping (2:48)
http://www.asl.ethz.ch/the-lab/asl-news/2017/11/asl-releases-maplab-an-open-visual-inertial-mapping-framework.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ta7w_cs1lU
https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10250
https://github.com/ethz-asl/maplab

iCub Stereo Vision - Makerless Visual Servoing On Unknown Objects For Humanoid Robot Platforms (3:27)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qcaLLipqPA

AIMotive (3:55)
https://aimotive.com/what-we-do/aidrive/
https://robotstart.info/2017/12/11/moriyama_mikata-no37.html
https://vimeo.com/aimotive

Artificial Intelligence Discovers New Planets (4:32)
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/artificial-intelligence-nasa-data-used-to-discover-eighth-planet-circling-distant-star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_HRh0ZynjE

The World’s Smallest Christmas Card (5:03)
https://youtu.be/IecDiwKDOFs

FX-2 The Giant Human Riding Robot (6:09)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYyNF0eNPxQ

Caught Mapping (1940) (6:22)
https://archive.org/details/0141_Caught_Mapping_M00914_08_19_34_00

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