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With a quadcopter that can travel 100 miles, robots that efficiently work together on-the-fly, and a diode made from a single molecule, we are truly pushing the limits of modern technology.
Check it all out in the links below!

• Top Flight Technologies' hybrid drone
http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/03/hybrid-gas-electric-drone-has-13-times.html

• MIT's autonomous, team robots
http://scitechdaily.com/new-algorithm-lets-robots-autonomously-plan-for-tasks/

• Boeing's building-targeting EMP
http://www.digitaljournal.com/technology/boeing-debuts-powerful-electromagnetic-pulse-weapon/article/434207

• Emerging Implant Technologies' 3D-printed spinal implant
http://3dprint.com/68388/german-patient-first-to-receive-3d-printed-titanium-spinal-fusion-implant/

• Columbia Engineering's single molecule diode
http://mashable.com/2015/05/18/beamsplitter-computers-light-speed/

• USC researchers and Facebook's Oculus Division map your facial expressions onto a virtual avatar
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/537566/oculus-rift-hack-transfers-your-facial-expressions-onto-your-avatar/

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