Public Release: 28-Aug-2018 University of Minnesota IMAGE: Researchers at the University of Minnesota have fully 3D printed an image sensing array on a hemisphere, which is a first-of-its-kind prototype for a “bionic eye. ” Credit: University of Minnesota, McAlpine… Read More ›
Transhuman
Experts call for ethics rules to protect privacy, free will, as brain implants advance
Public Release: 13-Nov-2017 Columbia University The convergence of artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces may soon restore sight to the blind, allow the paralyzed to move robotic limbs and cure any number of brain and nervous system disorders. But without… Read More ›
Monkeys with Parkinson’s disease benefit from human stem cells
Public Release: 30-Aug-2017 Transplantation of neurons made from induced pluripotent stem cells show long-term benefit in monkeys with Parkinson’s disease Center for iPS Cell Research and Application – Kyoto University IMAGE: Monkeys show reduced Parkinsonian symptoms following a donor-matched… Read More ›
3-D printed ovaries produce healthy offspring
Public Release: 16-May-2017 Bioprosthetic ovaries produced mouse pups in otherwise infertile mice Northwestern University Used 3-D printing to create bioprosthetic mouse ovary to restore fertility, boost hormone production Targeted to women who survived childhood cancer, have had treatments… Read More ›
University of Minnesota research shows people can control a robotic arm with only their minds
Public Release: 14-Dec-2016 Groundbreaking study demonstrates potential to help millions of people with disabilities University of Minnesota IMAGE: Research subjects at the University of Minnesota fitted with a specialized noninvasive brain cap were able to move the robotic… Read More ›
Can a brain-computer interface convert your thoughts to text?
Public Release: 25-Oct-2016 Recent research shows brain-to-text device capable of decoding speech from brain signals Frontiers Ever wonder what it would be like if a device could decode your thoughts into actual speech or written words? While this… Read More ›
Your body may soon be inhabited by swarms of microrobots
The microdoctors in our bodies Date: September 21, 2016 Source: ETH Zurich Summary: Researchers are developing tiny, sophisticated technological and biological machines enabling non-invasive, selective therapies. Their creations include genetically modified cells that can be activated via brain waves, and… Read More ›
Are humans the new supercomputer?
Public Release: 13-Apr-2016 Today, people of all backgrounds can contribute to solving serious scientific problems by playing computer games. A Danish research group has extended the limits of quantum physics calculations and simultaneously blurred the boundaries between man and… Read More ›
Learn how to fly a plane from expert-pilot brainwave patterns
HRL demonstrates the potential to enhance the human intellect’s existing capacity to learn new skills HRL Laboratories IMAGE: Low-current electrical brain stimulation can modulate the learning of complex real-world skills. Credit: Copyright 2016 HRL Laboratories – All Rights… Read More ›
Building living, breathing supercomputers
Public Release: 26-Feb-2016 Discovery opens doors to creation of biological supercomputers that are about the size of a book McGill University IMAGE: Protein molecules travel around the circuit, forced in certain directions in directed ways, a bit like cars… Read More ›
U mad bro? Computers now know when you’re angry
“Websites can go beyond just presenting information, but they can sense you. They can understand not just what you’re providing, but what you’re feeling.” Public Release: 14-Dec-2015 The way you move a computer mouse reveals negative emotions Brigham Young… Read More ›
Columbia engineers build biologically powered chip
Public Release: 7-Dec-2015 System combines biological ion channels with solid-state transistors to create a new kind of electronics Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science IMAGE: Illustration depicting biocell attached to CMOS integrated circuit with membrane containing sodium-potassium… Read More ›
UW roboticists learn to teach robots from babies
Public Release: 1-Dec-2015 Collaboration combines child development research with machine learning approaches University of Washington A collaboration between UW developmental psychologists and computer scientists aims to enable robots to learn in the same way that children naturally do. The team… Read More ›
Secret to ‘living’ forever? Tech company reveal way to bring you back after death
UPDATED 16:44, 26 NOV 2015 BY KIRSTIE MCCRUM Humai are hopeful that their science fiction work may become science fact in just 30 years from now A technology company says it’s working on a project which would allow a human’s… Read More ›
A network of artificial neurons learns to use human language
PUBLIC RELEASE: 11-NOV-2015 A computer simulation of a cognitive model entirely made up of artificial neurons learns to communicate through dialogue starting from a state of tabula rasa UNIVERSIT?I SASSARI A group of researchers from the University of Sassari… Read More ›
Most complete human brain model to date is a ‘brain changer’
Public Release: 18-Aug-2015 Scientist: Once licensed, model likely to accelerate study of Alzheimer’s, autism, more Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio – Scientists at The Ohio State University have developed a nearly complete human brain in a dish that equals the… Read More ›
Virginia Tech scientist develops model for robots with bacteria-controlled brains
Public Release: 16-Jul-2015 Understanding the biochemical sensing between organisms could have far reaching implications in ecology, biology, and robotics Virginia Tech Forget the Vulcan mind-meld of the Star Trek generation — as far as mind control techniques go, bacteria is… Read More ›
Do insect societies share brain power?
Public Release: 16-Jun-2015 Social brains may have evolved very differently in insects than in vertebrates Drexel University PHILADELPHIA (June 16, 2015) – The society you live in can shape the complexity of your brain–and it does so differently for social… Read More ›
First full genome of a living organism assembled using technology the size of smartphone
“the methods lay the groundwork for using it to sequence genomes in increasingly more complex organisms, eventually including humans” Public Release: 15-Jun-2015 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research TORONTO, June 15 — Researchers in Canada and the U.K. have for… Read More ›
Injectable electronics
“demonstrated that the scaffolds could be used to create “cyborg” tissue” Public Release: 8-Jun-2015 New system holds promise for basic neuroscience, treatment of neuro-degenerative diseases Harvard University It’s a notion that might be pulled from the pages of science-fiction… Read More ›
Combining computer vision and brain computer interface for faster mine detection
Public Release: 4-May-2015 University of California – San Diego IMAGE: Subjects in the study viewed images while wearing an EEG headset. Credit: Neuromatters Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have combined sophisticated computer vision algorithms and a… Read More ›
Tiny bio-robot is a germ suited-up with graphene quantum dots
Public Release: 24-Mar-2015 University of Illinois at Chicago Caption Graphene quantum dots deposited on a sporating bacteria produces a graphene coated spore. Upon attachment of electrodes across the cell, a bio-electronic device is produced that is highly sensitive to humidity…. Read More ›
Researchers determine how the brain controls robotic grasping tools
Findings could lead to assistive technologies benefitting the disabled University of Missouri-Columbia COLUMBIA, Mo. – Grasping an object involves a complex network of brain functions. First, visual cues are processed in specialized areas of the brain. Then, other areas… Read More ›
‘Radiogenetics’ seeks to remotely control cells and genes
It’s the most basic of ways to find out what something does, whether it’s an unmarked circuit breaker or an unidentified gene — flip its switch and see what happens. New remote-control technology may offer biologists a powerful way to… Read More ›
Cockroach Cyborgs Use Microphones to Detect, Trace Sounds
November 6, 2014 North Carolina State University researchers have developed technology that allows cyborg cockroaches, or biobots, to pick up sounds with small microphones and seek out the source of the sound. The technology is designed to help emergency personnel… Read More ›
DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches
It’s a computer – inside a cockroach. Nano-sized entities made of DNA that are able to perform the same kind of logic operations as a silicon-based computer have been introduced into a living animal. The DNA computers – known as… Read More ›
Rise of robot reporters: when software writes the news
17:00 21 March 2014 by Aviva Rutkin Just three minutes after an earthquake hit California on Monday, the Los Angeles Times broke the story on its website. The short article seemed fairly ordinary. It covered all the major details –… Read More ›
The Cyborgs Era Has Started
Press Release 003/2014 Interfaces of Technical Devices with Organisms for Medical Applications – KIT Scientists Report in “Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed.” Communication between man and machine – a fascinating area at the interface of chemistry, biomedicine, and engineering. (Figure: KIT/S…. Read More ›
Is it OK to torture or murder a robot?
Richard Fisher is the deputy editor of BBC Future. We form such strong emotional bonds with machines that people can’t be cruel to them even though they know they are not alive. So should robots have rights? Kate Darling likes… Read More ›
Neuro-enhancement in the military: far-fetched or an inevitable future?
As the science of brain stimulation forges ahead, neuroscientists and psychologists face tough ethical decisions The military has a genuine interest in brain stimulation research. Photograph: Alamy About five years ago, not long after I started up my research group… Read More ›
Artificial intelligence ‘will take the place of humans within five years’
Salespeople, call centre staff and customer service personnel could all be replaced by computers within the next few years, claims one technology entrepreneur. Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film Artificial Intelligence (AI) depicts a future where robots have become eerily human…. Read More ›
Brain-to-brain breakthrough in mind control experiment
Two minds with but a single thought as University of Washington researcher controls colleague’s hand movements LAST UPDATED AT 13:48 ON Wed 28 Aug 2013 SCIENTISTS have achieved human mind control for the first time in an experiment at… Read More ›
Drawing the Line on Altering Human Minds
August 6, 2013, 2:14 pm <!– — Updated: 3:42 pm –> By NICK BILTON In my column this week, “Computer-Brain Interfaces Making Big Leaps,” I noted that a number of researchers and scientists were coming closer to technology usually reserved… Read More ›
Chips that mimic the brain
Contact: Giacomo Indiveri giacomo.indiveri@ini.phys.ethz.ch 41-446-353-024 University of Zurich No computer works as efficiently as the human brain – so much so that building an artificial brain is the goal of many scientists. Neuroinformatics researchers from the University of Zurich and… Read More ›
Is superhuman intelligence a bad idea? Experts warn the quest for greater knowledge could lead to evil and psychosis
Theoretical neurobiologist Mark Changizi, and philosopher Mark Walker say we are obsessed with achieving ever greater intelligence But they warn it could lead to anti-social behaviour and psychosis Say that if people become extremely clever but their moral intelligence is… Read More ›
We’ll be uploading our entire MINDS to computers by 2045 and our bodies will be replaced by machines within 90 years, Google expert claims
Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, believes we will be able to upload our entire brains to computers within the next 32 years – an event known as singularity Our ‘fragile’ human body parts will be replaced by machines… Read More ›
Motorola shows off tattoo and swallowable password hardware
Mobe manufacturer playing long game for end times By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Security, 31st May 2013 19:26 GMT Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery Motorola has shown off an electronic authentication… Read More ›
Advanced Biological Computer Developed with ability to read and transform genetic information
Microprocessor with DNA (illustration). Scientists have developed and constructed an advanced biological transducer, a computing machine capable of manipulating genetic codes, and using the output as new input for subsequent computations (Credit: © Giovanni Cancemi / Fotolia) May 23, 2013… Read More ›
Navy Seeks To Map the Mind
May. 17, 2013 – 03:50PM By Michael Peck In some visions of the future, you’ll drive your car with little more than your mind. Electrodes on your head, you can climb into your car, think about how much you’d like… Read More ›
E-tattoo monitors brainwaves and baby bump : “now modifying the tattoo to transmit data wirelessly to a smartphone”
26 April 2013 by Sara Reardon Magazine issue 2914. Subscribe and save For similar stories, visit the The Human Brain Topic Guide An electronic patch can analyse complex brainwaves and listen in on a fetus’s heart MIND… Read More ›
Human brain treats prosthetic devices as part of the body
Contact: Jyoti Madhusoodanan jmadhusoodanan@plos.org 415-568-4545 Public Library of Science People with spinal cordPeople with spinal cord injuries show strong association of wheelchairs as part of their body, not extension of immobile limbs injuries show strong association of wheelchairs as part… Read More ›
Blueprint for an artificial brain
Published 26. February 2013, 15:18 h Bielefeld physicist Andy Thomas takes nature as his model Scientists have long been dreaming about building a computer that would work like a brain. This is because a brain is far… Read More ›
Temporary Tattoos Could Make Electronic Telepathy, Telekinesis Possible
February 19th, 2013 | by Charles Q. Choi Temporary electronic tattoos could soon help people fly drones with only thought and talk seemingly telepathically without speech over smartphones, researchers say. Commanding machines using the brain is no longer the… Read More ›
Maybe it’s time for a little human enhancement – Morally enhancing drugs added to our Water Supply
Sam de Brito Published: December 23, 2012 – 3:00AM ‘There’s something in the water.” That’s what we say when we observe a bunch of locals behaving in the same, odd way, but maybe it’s also the answer to… Read More ›
Engineers pave the way towards 3D printing of personal electronics
Contact: Anna Blackaby a.blackaby@warwick.ac.uk 44-024-765-75910 University of Warwick Engineers pave the way towards 3D printing of personal electronics Scientists are developing new materials which could one day allow people to print out custom-designed personal electronics such as games controllers which… Read More ›
Brain-like chip outstrips normal computers
22 November 2012 by Michael Marshall Magazine issue 2892. COMPUTER chips that mimic the human brain are outstripping conventional chips in crucial ways. They could also revolutionise our understanding of how the brain functions.Attempts to simulate the brain usually involve… Read More ›
These Mini-Bots Were Made for Walking: Cells Power Biological Machines: non-electronic biological machines
Miniature “bio-bots” developed at the University of Illinois are made of hydrogel and heart cells, but can walk on their own. (Credit: Elise A. Corbin) ScienceDaily (Nov. 15, 2012) — They’re soft, biocompatible, about 7 millimeters long — and, incredibly,… Read More ›
Activating the ‘mind’s eye’ — sounds, instead of eyesight can be alternative vision ( can actually “see” and describe objects and even identify letters and words )
Contact: Jerry Barach jerryb@savion.huji.ac.il 972-258-82904 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jerusalem, Nov. 7, 2012 — Common wisdom has it that if the visual cortex in the brain is deprived of visual information in early infanthood, it may never develop properly… Read More ›
Weizmann Institute scientists observe as humans learn to sense like a rat, with ”whiskers”
Rats use a sense that humans don’t: whisking. They move their facial whiskers back and forth about eight times a second to locate objects in their environment. Could humans acquire this sense? And if they can, what could understanding the… Read More ›
Batteries not required, just plug into ear cells
16:55 08 November 2012 by Will Ferguson For the first time, an electrical device has been powered by the ear alone. The team behind the technology used a natural electrochemical gradient in cells within the inner ear of a… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 