Gallery: Forget Robots. We'll Soon Be Fusing Technology With Living Matter
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Bot & Dolly's Iris was responsible for the zero-g camera work in *Gravity*, which won this year's Oscar for best cinematography.
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A prototype of the sensor BlueCity hopes to mount on the lids of trash cans everywhere to detect garbage levels and make waste collection less wasteful in the process.
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Boston Dynamics' Wildcat robot wowed the internet with a [demo video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE3fmFTtP9g&feature=kp) that showed the dog-like creature navigating forest and ice. It's also nearly impossible to knock down.
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Otherlabs' Pneubotics inflatable robot arm uses air rather than motors and metal to move, making it safer around human workers.
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Fl.UI is a prototype of a fluid-based touchscreen built by Berkeley computer science grad students Cesar Torres and Tim Campbell to make tactile interfaces easy to customize.
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The Makani wing is an airborne wind turbine that generates electricity while aloft.
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The Lit Motors C-1 uses gyroscopes to stay upright even while stopped and algorithmically controlled steering its creators say makes it as easy to drive as a car.
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A walkthrough model of a General Electric turbine, which comes stocked with sensors that stream data to help zero in on maintenance issues.
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