Google, Lyft and industry executives are urging lawmakers to help create a'regulatory fast lane' to help push through the development of self-driving cars - as experts warn they will kill. At a Senate hearing, representatives of General Motors and Delphi touted numerous safety and environmental benefits of autonomous vehicles. However, Mary Cummings, who heads the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory at Duke University, warned'There is no question that someone is going to die in this technology. 'The question is when and what can we do to minimize that.' At a Senate hearing, representatives of General Motors and Delphi touted numerous safety and environmental benefits of autonomous vehicles.

Robot Wars will soon back on TV in the UK, and a very similar battle is heading for the country's seas. The British Royal Navy will be holding a demonstration of unmanned technology off the coast of Scotland this autumn. The machines will compete in their very own version of'robot wars' to demonstrate they could be part of the Navy's future. The Royal Navy will be holding a demonstration of unmanned technology off the coast of Scotland this autumn. The'Unmanned Warior 2016' will feature vehicles that fly along with those that move across the surface, or under water.

They can be traumatic, joyful and sometimes hard to remember but memories play a significant role in who we are and how we think. Now, scientists have developed a technique that not only pinpoints memories in the brain, to reveal what they look like, it can be used to restore thoughts that have been lost. The research additionally shows that patients with Alzheimer's may not have problems encoding memories, and instead the fault lies in retrieving the memory instead. This image reveals what a memory looks like. It depicts a memory engram cell (green) in the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) region of a mouse brain with symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease.

For many people with dementia, moving out of their house and into a care home can be an inevitable and devastating side effect. Spatial and visual problems can accompany the more well-known memory loss, making it difficult for people to get around their once familiar homes. But a new app has been designed to help carers for people with dementia work out how to arrange furniture in their houses, which could allow their loved ones to stay at home for longer. The app will suggest improvements to make carers' homes more accessible to those with dementia. The'Dementia-Friendly Home' app, launched today, uses interactive 3D game technology to come up with ideas for carers to make their homes more accessible for those with dementia.

Artificial intelligence is increasing triumphing in the real world, playing the stock market, driving cars, and even beating grandmasters at board games. But computers could soon stretch beyond the everyday to triumph over the most primal of human fears, offering a chance to save our loved ones from death. In just a matter of years it could be possible to upload the mind of someone who has recently died to a computer, immortalising their essence in a robot clone. In future it could be possible transfer the mind of a loved one to a computer, immortalising their essence in a robot clone. Bina48 (pictured) from US research foundation Terasem Movement is one of the prototypes.

On cold, dark days it is tempting to imagine shutting yourself away until the warmer weather returns. Many animals do it by entering a state known as torpor, which reduces their bodily functions to a minimum and uses fat stores in their body for energy, but could humans ever hibernate in the same way? Vladyslav Vyazovskiy, associate professor of neuroscience at the University of Oxford has explained what torpor does to the body and how it could affect the human body in an article for The Conversation. An expert has explained what torpor - or the act of shutting the body down during hibernation - does to the body and how it could affect humans. A'therapeutic torpor' could make a manned mission to Mars more feasible.

While drunks tweets are nearly always mortifying the morning after, researchers say they could actually help improve your health - and your city. Researchers analysed 11,000 tweets of New Yorkers, using them to build up a map of when and where they were sent. They hope the'drunk maps' of major cities to help offer health and safety advice. Researchers used thousands of tweets from the area and filtered them out by using alcohol-related words to find where people were drinking and if they had one too many when they sent a post. The team collected 11,000 geotagged tweets sent during the year up to July 2014 from New York City and from Monroe County.

It has been put to good use by comic book superheroes and by alien predators hell-bent on wiping out mankind, but soon humans could also be able to see infrared light. Scientists have used brain implants to give rats a'sixth-sense' that enables them to detect and react to the normally invisible light source. The research proves it is possible for the adult brain to adapt to new forms of input and opens up the possibility of enabling humans to gain an array of superhuman senses. Scientists have connected infrared sensors to the brains of rats using electrical implants to allow the rodents to detect the normally invisible light. They found the rats were able to spot infrared light and react to it by pressing a button beneath an infrared source to get food. Researchers say it may be possible to attach sensors for other forms of light such as ultraviolet, microwaves and even x-rays using brain implants.

A team of engineers has built a robot which can fly, land and scuttle up walls, just like a bug. The researchers said the machines could be used in disaster areas where rubble or floodwaters limit suitable landing spots for standard drones, but where there may still be vertical surfaces intact. Engineers at Stanford University have developed Scamp (pictured), a flying robot which can land on walls and climb vertical surfaces using its spindly legs. Called the Stanford Climbing and Aerial Manoeuvring Platform, affectionately shortened to Scamp, the flying robot is just as happy climbing surfaces as it is in the air. It uses two spindly, daddy long legs-style limbs to pull itself up walls and surfaces, and was developed and built at Stanford University's Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab.

Google's Boston Dynamics is up for sale - and could be sold to Amazon or Toyota, it has been revealed. The firm is best known for Atlas, its 5 foot 9 humanoid robot, and spot, a four legged'dog robot'. Boston Dynamic has revealed the new wireless version of its humanoid robot in a new video showing it walk, run, and even be pushed over and get up again on its own. According to Boston Dynamics, Atlas is a'high mobility, humanoid robot designed to negotiate outdoor, rough terrain. 'Atlas can walk bipedally leaving the upper limbs free to lift, carry, and manipulate the environment.