A new technology, sono-optogenetics, is being experimented to support brain-computer interfaces -BCI. BCI aims at capturing the brain activity, convert it into bits and provide these bits to a computer for analysing what is going on, eventually what you are thinking. Let’s clarify that we are still very – very …
Read More »The evolution of human to whatever Interfaces VIII
4. Reverse communications, from the computer to the brain If it is difficult to communicate from the brain to a computer the reverse is close to impossible. Now, I know you should “never say never” and indeed some progress has been made but before looking into technology promises let’s consider …
Read More »Transhumanism: Evolving the Human Body I
We have started to augment our body long long time ago, probably the first augmentation go back 170,000 years ago when our ancestors started to wear clothes to protect themselves from cold weather. You might not consider that an “augmentation” but it actually made possible to extend significantly the human …
Read More »Robots are helping us to understand the brain…
We are still in the dark when it comes to really understand what goes on in our brain that results in perception, awareness … Yes we have learnt and understood several basic circuitry but the formation of thoughts and conscience still eludes us. The progress has been made by observing …
Read More »Looking at “how” neurones connect
The number of tools at scientists disposal to look into the brain in their attempt to understand it keeps growing. Projects like “the Human Connectome” are trying to map all connections among the billions and billions of neurones and eventually they will succeed. However the mapping resulting from those projects …
Read More »Tech for Autonomous Systems – Advanced Interaction Capabilities VIII
Brain Computer Interfaces Our brain, as all brains, processes data arriving from sensors spread out in the brain’s owner body. The processing may result in the activation of parts of the body (like muscles to talk or to flee) or may just result in a “change of state” of the …
Read More »Skipping the eyes, seeing with the brain
DARPA has awarded 26M$ to the University of Berkeley as part of its NESD – Neural Engineering System Design – program. The overall program, announced in January 2016, calls for the development of an implantable system supporting precise communications between the digital world and the brain, in practice converting electrochemical …
Read More »Robotic Dragonfly
We have been able to develop amazing vehicles, millions of people are flying on comfortable airplanes that are -almost- autonomously flying, robots in the sky. Yet we are still far to create a really small vehicle, as small as an insect, with comparable capabilities. The approach that some researchers have …
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