CREMINO, THE FIRST HUMAN- ELECTRONIC CREATURE

Cremino is the first hybrid human-electronic creature. Developed by the Living Networks Lab, Department of Information Technologies of the University of Milan, Crema Campus, his brain is made of human neurons cultured by the Stem Cell Research Institute DIBIT San Raffaele Milan.
His neurons receive our digital commands and their electrical reactions are decoded by an artificial neural network that operates his wheels. He reaches a precision of 90.5%.
http://www.dti.unimi.it/pizzi/research.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• robot
• cyborg
• neurons
• stem cells
• bionics
• artificial neural networks
• artificial intelligence
• microelectrode arrays
• hybrid

[RitaPizzi]

@brokenbones you are just confusing shape with content ! please read the comment to Fatman below. The toy is just the external shell, we could also leave it, of course.

[RitaPizzi]

Really poetic !

[Fatman221]

This thing looks like a toy they had back in the 90's. You could make them punch eachother. If they hit the right spot they would shut down for a few seconds. I really wish I could remember what they were called.

[RitaPizzi]

@Fatman221 Yes it is !!!!! We used this old toy for the mobile part (that is just an electric engine). Please read the paper if you wish to understand how the whole thing works.

[brokenbones1220]

this is bullshit i have one of those toys in my basement its not a robot its an rc toy from the 1990's and lets be realistic you spent thousands of dollars to extract a human brain and go through all that hard work and all the time waisted on this project to put the brain in a toy? yeah........real smart.

[norc24601]

@norc24601 Yep, I'm watching too much Twilight Zone episodes.

[norc24601]

Then he stopped moving. All lights were blinking rapidly but he didn't move. So, the scientists pulled the battery and put him on the cupboard. 75 years later, another scientist came and she discovered that the brain cells were alive & active throughout the years. After a fresh battery was installed, the lights blinked madly again. Then she noticed something terrible. As an expert in communication she realized that the blinking of the lights aren't random.

In morse code, they spelled "PAIN".

[TruthMakesPeace]

It is guilty of cremino behavior.

[RitaPizzi]

@PinkProgram thank you for your advices. The survival time has been already greatly increased, both by methods like those you suggest, and improving the MEAs, e.g. using a layer of TiO2 and many other tricks. In the future there is no doubt that cells can survive ad libitum.