Robot Muscle, Plant Tattoos and more -- Mind Blow #116

Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/vsauce2/

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Native Americans’ Original Migration (0:00)
Journal article: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25173
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-genome/alaskan-sunrise-girl-sheds-light-on-how-humans-populated-americas-idUSKBN1ES1NH

Graphene Plant Tattoos (0:15)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admt.201700223/full
https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2018/01/03/planttattoosensors

China’s Photovoltaic Expressway (0:38)
Qilu Transportation Development Group: http://www.qljfjt.com
55-minute live news coverage: http://live.weibo.com/show?id=1042152:02517e73b6a8bda110742aaad952aeb1

Snapping Shrimp Claws (1:25)
Research paper: http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31526-9
Summary and video: https://phys.org/news/2018-01-million-years.html

Skin-like Glucose Monitoring Biosensor (1:54)
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/12/e1701629/tab-figures-data

Apopo Hero Rats (2:19)
https://www.apopo.org
https://www.facebook.com/heroRAT/

Flexible Robots (2:50)
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/01/04/next-gen-flexible-robots-move-and-heal-us
https://youtu.be/YGMyW6AESsQ

Milking a Platypus (3:17)
https://www.facebook.com/AustralianReptilePark/videos/1615284465231633/

World’s First Robot DJ (3:41)
https://www.facebook.com/karlovylazneofficial/videos/10154916944761510/
https://www.kuka.com

Tiny Sea Turtles on Treadmills (4:03)
Journal article: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/2017/11/08/jeb.165225
Video: https://youtu.be/itkAuPubbxI

Exoskeletons for Training and Rehabilitation (4:30)
https://youtu.be/h00DzD3p1-c

ANYmal Robot Kicks Its New Friend (5:32)
http://www.iris.ethz.ch/the-institute/robotics-systems-lab.html
https://youtu.be/f_Pxbe3_hiM

Sharp ELSI-8 “World’s Smallest Electronic Calculator” Commercial, uploaded by Jeff Quitney (6:00)
https://youtu.be/IC8ljZyZIYs

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Vsauce Links
Website: http://www.Vsauce.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/VsauceTwo
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VsauceTwo

Kevin Lieber Links
Instagram: http://instagram.com/kevlieber
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinlieber
Website: http://kevinlieber.com

Written by Matthew Tabor
https://twitter.com/matthewktabor
Edited by Jack Merline

Music By Jake Chudnow: http://www.youtube.com/user/JakeChudnow
Ending Song - Going Down: http://bit.ly/PHS3Xn

Vsauce: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce
Vsauce2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2
Vsauce3: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce3
DONG: http://www.youtube.com/dong

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