What are the most ambitious projects in architecture?

 Analemma Tower

It's an ambitious project for a suspended skyscraper, built by the architectural firm Clouds. It's connected to an asteroid in orbit 50,000 km away. The asteroid in question must be captured and remain stationary with the planet moving beneath it.

The Analemma reverses tradition, building on land on Earth. The Analemma building's foundations are placed on an asteroid orbiting Earth. The piles are anchored by giant wires from tens of thousands of kilometers above Earth's surface and tethered to the asteroid. Therefore, the tower can be positioned anywhere and transported to specific locations, such as Dubai.

The skyscraper in question will offer residential space, shops, restaurants, a museum, as well as offices and a church. The Analemma will be powered by space-based solar panels.

Mounted above the atmosphere, these panels are exposed to sunlight, with greater efficiency than typical photovoltaic installations. Water is harvested, distilled, and recycled in a system that utilizes condensate from rainwater and cloud distillation. Used water is re-filtered and reused.

Are you wondering where this will take place? Well, skyscrapers won't have a fixed location, but will be spread all over the world, including New York, Panama City, Havana, etc. And they will return to the same location every 24 hours.

What are some of the most amazing ongoing scientific projects?

 I read this recently. Researchers at MIT just built a wristband that lets you control a robotic hand with your bare fingers. No gloves or implants needed. Just a smartwatch sized device on your wrist.

Here's how it works. The band uses ultrasound stickers to image the muscles and tendons beneath your skin in real time. An AI algorithm reads those internal shifts and maps them to 22 degrees of freedom across your fingers and palm. Your tendons literally act like puppet strings. The wristband reads the strings. The robot mirrors the hand. In demos, volunteers used it to play piano tunes and shoot basketballs, through a robotic hand, wirelessly. It even decoded 26 American Sign Language signs accurately.

This wristband could generate massive training data for teaching robots dexterous, human-like movements. For VR/AR, hand-tracking cameras are not needed. A wristband that sees inside your wrist is more accurate, more portable and harder to fool.

The paper was published this week in Nature Electronics

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Footnotes

[1] Wristband enables wearers to control a robotic hand with their own movements