MONEY-ROBOT INTERFACE. "Here we demonstrate that primates can learn to reach and grasp virtual objects by controlling a robot arm through a closed-loop brain–machine interface (BMIc) that uses multiple mathematical models to extract several motor parameters (i.e., hand position, velocity, gripping force, and the EMGs of multiple arm muscles) from the electrical activity of frontoparietal neuronal ensembles” http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0000042 View in LinkedIn
MONKEY TO ROBOT. "Miguel Ângelo Laporta Nicolelis, M.D., P.hD...is a Brazilian scientist, physician and lobbyist, best known for his pioneering work in "reading monkey thought". He and his colleagues at Duke University implanted electrode arrays into a monkey's brain that were able to detect the monkey's motor intent and thus able to control reaching and grasping movements performed by a robotic arm." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Nicolelis View in LinkedIn
ORGANIC COMPUTER. "The first step towards constructing an organic computer that uses networks of linked animal brains to solve tasks." http://www.nature.com/news/intercontinental-mind-meld-unites-two-rats-1.12522 View in LinkedIn
BRAIN GRID. "Such a computing structure could define the first example of an organic computer capable of solving heuristic problems that would be deemed non-computable by a general Turing-machine." http://www.nature.com/articles/srep01319 View in LinkedIn
LARGER COLLABORATION. "Our results indicate that animal brain dyads or even brain networks could allow animal groups to synchronize their behaviors following neuronal-based cues." http://www.nature.com/articles/srep01319 View in LinkedIn
NICOLELIS on TED explaining his experiment. "And a brain-machine interface is not rocket science, it's just brain research. So what I need to say is that no Turing machine, no computer can predict what a brain net will do. So we will absorb technology as part of us. Technology will never absorb us. It's simply impossible." https://lnkd.in/d3iVSZY View in LinkedIn
VIRAL ORIGIN OF THE NUCLEUS. “There are also strong reasons to consider that the eukaryotic nucleus is of viral origin. DNA viruses are held to be competent to create new genes in large numbers; both complex and simple ones.” https://lnkd.in/e3YfQQZ View in LinkedIn