Neurorobotics: Brain Machine Interfaces

This is a clip from The Dream Life of Rats where neuroroboticsists research brain control of machines. One scientist uses discoveries to remote control a live rat by sending stimuli into its brain via electrodes. Another scientist enables a paraplegic to control a computer mouse pointer via a direct-interface to his brain known as the Braingate.

Partly funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the United States, these technologies are expected to give future soldiers enhanced capabilities.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Neurorobotics
• brain
• machine
• interface
• cyborg
• remote
• control
• rat
• robot

[BibleTrippin]

GHOST IN THE SHELL - series will blow your mind if you're lookin at this stuff.

[hosweetim89]

Everything must be military. Typical of Americans.

[CLSkill]

this must be the dumbest thing in the world (and i can already predict an angry person who is fooled by this technology lashing back at me with "No. The dumbest thing in the world would be YOU)

[CGZito]

I don't believe in such a universe that demands creatures of great wisdom, ability, and talent to only be evil.

[bigfoot156]

I'm thinking those heads in Futurama aren't so far off in the future either :D! I think that biological life still has huge advantages over mechanics because it can grow and heal and etc. but I wonder how far off it will be until mechanics and biology are almost the same thing...

[CGZito]

there would be no daily lives with out the daily wars. and there will always be something that bad people can use to hurt good people.

[CHEESOdorito]

i'm scared...

[M4551V]

this is playing god dude!

[bigbrovaz123]

see things like this are good but some humans arent and this could be used against peoples will which is a bad thing but on the other hand for say war victims who have lost limbs using robot parts to help them in there daily lives are good

[mathijs1995U]

sad people :S omg these guys are fucking sad... poor rat