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From a personalised 3D avatar to sentient AI, here are some sci-fi-like technologies being worked on currently!
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It's the practice of using dead organisms as robots to perform tasks. The idea is being explored at Rice University, which used dead spiders as grippers in an experiment.
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It's the concept of a 3D digital avatar of a physical-world human, built on data of different levels of human anatomy, that will mimic and predict the behaviour of their physical counterparts.
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Researchers have developed wireless soft e-skin, which could share the sense of touch over long distances, a reality.
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It refers to developing cryptographic algorithms that protect against attacks by quantum computers.
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Scientists have already brought the 10,000-year-old dire wolves back from extinction and are working on bringing back extinct animals like the Wooly mammoth, the Dodo bird, etc.
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It is the idea that AI can gain sentience, ie, they can think, feel and possess consciousness like a human. It's a highly debated topic that brings up moral and ethical concerns.
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