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