Nov 14

Brain Computer Interface used to control the movement and actions of an android robot

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Researchers at the CRNS-AIST Joint Robotics Laboratory, are working on ways to control robots via thought alone.
“Basically we would like to create devices which would allow people to feel embodied, in the body of a humanoid robot. To do so we are trying to develop techniques from Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) so that we can read the peoples thoughts and then try to see how far we can go from interpreting brain waves signals, to transform them into actions to be done by the …

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Oct 24

Nano-machines built to mimic human muscle could help power cyborgs, keep the OSI budget down

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At today’s prices, building a Six Million Dollar Man would cost around $31 million. Of course, being a TV show means the Office of Scientific Intelligence doesn’t have too many bionic employees, but that might not the case in the future. Nicolas Giuseppone and a team at the Université de Strasbourg and CNRS have created thousands of nano-machines to replicate the movement of human muscle fibers. Weaving them all together, the machines are able to make a coordinated contraction movement that stretches and contracts. For the moment, the supramolecular polymers can only stretch a matter of micrometers, but in the future they could be used to create artificial muscles, small robots or even materials that can move. Hopefully it’ll also give us the power to leap tall buildings, so we’ll be outside practicing our sound effects.

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