Month: September 2022

CULTURED CELL-ROBOT INTERFACE "Since 2007, the researcher — who once implanted an electronic chip in his arm so he could receive neural signals from a similar chip implanted in his wife — has been using cultures of rat brain cells to control a small, wheeled robot." https://lnkd.in/dD7SVdC View in LinkedIn

RAT BRAIN CULTURES. "Connecting the cells to electrodes that transmit signals from ultrasonic sensors in the robot has shown how the culture begins to act like the brain of a living organism, learning how to take in information, make decisions and interact with its environment." https://lnkd.in/d7uaGCD View in LinkedIn

CULTURED RAT BRAIN. "The functional networks of cultured neurons exhibit complex network properties similar to those found in vivo. Starting from random seeding, cultures undergo significant reorganization during the initial period in vitro, yet despite providing an ideal platform for observing developmental changes in neuronal connectivity, little is known about how a complex functional network evolves from isolated neurons. In the present study, evolution of functional connectivity was estimated from correlations of spontaneous activity." https://lnkd.in/ef8-NCB View in LinkedIn

NETWORKED BOTS. “Google is taking a different approach to training its robots – it’s letting them teach each other. Researchers at Google have released a report showing how they connected 14 robotic arms together and used convolutional neural networks to let them teach themselves how to pick things up. The approach mimics how young children learn between the ages of one and four years old, and is essentially helping the robots to develop reliable hand-eye coordination.” http://thenextweb.com/google/2016/03/10/technological-singularity-ftw/ View in LinkedIn

CULTURED DRIVER. "In this paper a look is taken at the relatively new area of culturing neural tissue and embodying it in a mobile robot platform—essentially giving a robot a biological brain. This has a potential major impact with regard to society and ethical issues and hence some initial observations are made. Some initial issues are also considered with regard to the potential consciousness of such a brain.” https://lnkd.in/ezN5q2X View in LinkedIn

CYBORGS IN SPACE. "Practical realisation of Cyborgs opens up significant new opportunities in many fields. In particular when it comes to space travel many of the limitations faced by humans, in stand-alone form, are transposed by the adoption of a cyborg persona. In this article a look is taken at different types of Brain-Computer interface which can be employed to realise Cyborgs, biology-technology hybrids." Inevitable solution to space exploration. https://lnkd.in/eMAs5uD View in LinkedIn

"A HYBRID SYSTEM incorporating closed-loop control of a mobile robot by a dissociated culture of neurons has been created. The system is flexible and allows for closed-loop operation, either with hardware robot or its software simulation." https://lnkd.in/eMAs5uD View in LinkedIn