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Popular Mechanics July 7, 2008 Erik Sofge |
For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey Trials Are Just a Start A study in the journal Nature this spring all but confirmed the latest evolution in the hard-charging, heady field of cybernetics: Monkeys can control machines with their brains. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 Morgen E. Peck |
Scheme to Let Robot Take Over Brain-Computer Interface MEMS-based system could position electrodes in brain tissue to improve neural prosthetics. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2012 Jose M. Carmena |
How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way. |
Wired March 2005 Richard Martin |
Mind Control Matt Nagle is paralyzed. He's also a pioneer in the new science of brain implants. |
InternetNews November 16, 2005 David Needle |
Mind/Computer Interface Advances A second quadriplegic patient successfully uses BrainGate implant to control computer. |
Wired February 2000 Kevin Warwick |
Cyborg 1.0 I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change. I will tell you why... |
IEEE Spectrum June 2010 Erico Guizzo |
Rat, Monkey, and Man Control Robots With Their Minds As brain-machine interfaces become more advanced, so do the devices they can control |
PC Magazine November 29, 2006 |
Brain Chip University of Washington researchers have demonstrated an implantable device in live animals that can record signals from one part of the brain and send the impulses to a different part of the brain. |
Wired August 2001 John Hockenberry |
The Next Brainiacs If puppetry is the clever mapping of human characteristics onto a nonhuman object, then disability is the same mapping onto a still-human object. Getting good at being disabled is like discovering an alternative platform. Science is bringing us closer to becoming puppet masters... |
IEEE Spectrum October 2008 Willie D. Jones |
New Brain-Machine Interface Reactivates Monkey's Paralyzed Muscles A monkey learned to use the output of just one brain cell to move its wrist |
Popular Mechanics April 2007 Daniel H. Wilson |
The Brain-Powered Robot Servant: Resident Roboticist A new robot, Morpheus, takes its marching orders directly from your brain. |
Popular Mechanics December 2009 |
The Singularity Is Coming--Now What? For some time now, futurists have been talking about a concept called the Singularity, a technological jump so big that society will be transformed. |
Technology Research News October 3, 2005 Eric Smally |
USC's Michael Arbib The Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science shares his views on trends in science and technology, his work, and the links between technology, neuroscience, and behavior. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2005 Willie D. Jones |
Fiber to the Brain Nanotech researchers have devised a method for attaching electrodes to small clusters of brain cells -- or even individual neurons -- using the cardiovascular system as the conduit through which wires are threaded. |
Popular Mechanics May 2006 Logan Ward |
Your Upgrade Is Ready Evolution has done its best, but there's a limit to our bodies capabilities. Wanna be Superman? Better call the engineers. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Sally Adee |
Mastering the Brain-Computer Interface Engineers are learning to translate between the neural signals of the brain and the machine language of a prosthetic arm. |
Chemistry World October 6, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Rolled-up electrodes record brain activity without scarring Ultra-flexible neural electrodes have been created that can more precisely measure brain activity without causing tissue scarring. |
Science News Nathan Seppa |
Book Review: Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise In The Most Difficult Cases By Jamie Talan / Science News Jamie Talan describes brain surgery aimed at addressing movement disorders and zeros in on deep-brain stimulation, a cutting-edge treatment in which doctors implant electrodes. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2012 Steve Furber |
Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet |
Entrepreneur March 2007 Amanda C. Kooser |
Input Evolution The technology behind mice, keyboards and other computing peripherals is older than you think. Here's a sneak peek at what the future holds. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2012 Mark Anderson |
This Is Your Brain on fMRI The science of mind reading is further along than you might think |
Wired March 24, 2008 Mark Anderson |
Never Mind the Singularity, Here's the Science Many computer scientists take it on faith that one day machines will become conscious. |
Popular Mechanics October 2009 Erin McCarthy |
The Tech Behind Surrogates's All-Robot World When robot stand-ins populate the world in a movie -- as they do in Touchstone Picture's Surrogates, out Sept. 25 -- every character in the frame has to look perfect. |
National Defense May 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Casualties of War Leading research at the Department of Veterans Affairs is aimed at helping soldiers who lost limbs in combat. At the core of this program are new technologies meant to seamlessly fuse prosthetics with the human body. |
National Defense March 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Reverse Engineering the Brain May Accelerate Robotics Research Machines that walk upright will assist civilians and the military alike, said Stefan Schaal, associate professor of computer science and neuroscience at the University of Southern California. |
IEEE Spectrum June 2008 Morgen E. Peck |
A Chip to Better Control Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's Michigan engineers are developing a closed-loop deep-brain stimulation device for Parkinson's disease that would listen to the brain while stimulating it |
IEEE Spectrum May 2009 Prachi Patel |
Laser Probes for Brain Experiments Laser-activated probes stimulate brain cells better, say scientists |
Fast Company April 2006 |
Oy, Robot! Are we doomed to some post-apocalyptic nightmare in which robots rule the planet? Roboticists Henrik Hautop Lund and Rodney Brooks square off. |
Wired March 23, 2009 Jonah Lehrer |
Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry. |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Nora Taranto |
Wiring the Brain with CSF Research by HHMI investigator Bernardo Sabatini suggests that self-reinforcing loops of neural activity may drive the development of synapses in the basal ganglia, a region of the brain that uses sensory and social context to direct movement. |
Fast Company October 2008 Gregory Berns |
Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity What neuroscience reveals about how to come up with new ideas. |
The Motley Fool November 20, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Are Intuitive Surgical and iRobot Just Babies? Robotic technology is still in the early stages of its development, and it will only get better. The best time for investors to jump in is when that company is young. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2010 Virginia Hughes |
Glimpsing Inside a Moving Fruit Fly's Brain Vivek Jayaraman wants to capture, in real time, how the fly's brain responds to a changing environment. Ultimately, he hopes to uncover very basic patterns -- "algorithms" -- of fly brain activity that hold true in more complex brains including, presumably, ours. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2010 Versace & Chandler |
MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors DARPA's new memristor-based approach to Artificial Intelligence consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information |
Wired August 2001 Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
Technology Research News March 24, 2004 Eric Smalley |
System susses out silent speech Scientists from the NASA Ames Research Center are taking advantage of the nerve activity that happens near the throat when humans speak in order to gain information about what a person is saying. |
Inc. May 2009 Leigh Buchanan |
Charles Jacobs Goes Inside the Entrepreneur's Brain Leading corporate consultant, Charles Jacobs discusses how brain structure can impact business management. |
Technology Research News December 31, 2003 |
Colors expand neural net Researchers from the University of Tokyo have worked out a way to form an especially fast optical neural network by tapping the wave nature of lightwaves rather than just the amplitude, or strength of a signal. |
Technology Research News October 8, 2003 |
Design enables large neural nets Researchers have devised a neural network architecture that uses a different mix of optics and electronics than previous schemes in order to accommodate large numbers of neurons. |
Search Engine Watch May 29, 2010 |
The Future of Search: A One-Act Play in Three Acts (Act 3) Why not use Twitter's swelling brain to predict what people might be searching for? Especially since access to the public stream is free to the public. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Jeffrey M. Perkel |
A Brighter View of the Brain in Action A protein sensor is beefed up to illuminate the language of neural networks. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Nourishing Neural Stem Cells with CSF Inside your skull, your brain is floating in a clear liquid. This liquor cerebrospinalis, or cerebrospinal fluid, until recently was considered simply cushioning for the brain. |
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 Kimberly Patch |
Neural-chaos team boosts security The best way to send a secret message is to scramble it with a random code, and an excellent source of randomness is chaos. The trick is sharing the randomness only with intended receivers. Grafting chaos and neural networks makes this possible, even over public channels. |
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 Samuel K. Moore |
Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools Electronic implants and electromagnetic pulses are picking up where psychoactive drugs have failed. |
Chemistry World February 24, 2011 Carl Saxton |
Mapping brain networks US scientists have created a model of the ring-shaped networks of neurons in the brain, which could help researchers to understand small changes within diseased brain cells. |
BusinessWeek July 19, 2004 |
Ready To Buy A Home Robot? For a glimpse into the future, BusinessWeek checked out some of the most intriguing robotic developments -- things your digital home could grow to love. |
Wired March 2007 Steven Gulie |
A Shock to the System To slow the progress of Parkinson's disease, doctors planted electrodes deep in my brain. Then they turned on the juice. |
PC Magazine January 1, 2008 |
The Next 25 Years in Tech We've enlisted industry leaders as well as our own analysts and editors to share their fascinating visions of tomorrow's computing technology. |
PC Magazine December 28, 2004 Karen Jones |
The Thought Interface Matthew Nagle is a 25-year-old quadriplegic with unique kinetic capabilities, thanks to a small sensor chip implanted in his brain. |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Patch & Smalley |
Body handles nanofiber better The human body doesn't care for artificial materials, and responds to invasions by building scar tissue around foreign objects. A study shows that scar tissue formation might have more to do with the surface features of the intrusion than material it is made from. |