Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In 2 Minutes

Re:Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In 2 Minutes by arjie on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @10:26PM (#8106087)

He doesn't mean human-like robots (with a human-like brain). He means a human brain with partly machine body.

Even that's real damn hard, though, and I'm not optimistic.

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Re:Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In 2 Minutes by efaref on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @06:45AM (#8107325)

I thought good progress was already being made with this, with devices like cochlear implants, retinal implants, and cyborg monkey arms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIgdOlT2cY

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Re:Robot With Broken Leg Learns To Walk Again In 2 Minutes by dm2 on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @07:31AM (#8107478)

Yep, lots of teams working on BCIs.

The rapid learning by introducing an electric current at a specific certain parts of the brain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcranial_direct-current_sti...

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/427177/diy-kit-overcloc...

BCIs are getting more and more attention. Imagine being able to hook up a processor, external storage, or even directly connecting to the internet using a BCI. Even connecting two brain is possible (and has been done). Some people say that one day we'll all be one connected organism, when we die just throw the brains in a big tank and let them live forever, like Futurama.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/527561/military-funds-b...

http://www.army-technology.com/features/featurebrain-compute...

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