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Anonymous 21/5/2009(Thu)07:03:53 No.41687  
Researchers create what may be the perfect scout: a bug controlled remotely through a chip implanted in its optic lobes and flight muscles.

The first wireless flying-insect cyborg—a remote-controlled beetle—has been developed by engineers at the University of California at Berkeley. The six-legged biomechanical hybrid can rise, hover, and fly on command, guided by a radio receiver that relays signals to electrodes connected to the insect’s optic lobes and flight muscles. Researchers demonstrated the beetle at the 2009 IEEE MEMS conference in Italy after showing off a preliminary version at the same conference in 2008.

With the mind of a machine and the nimble body of an insect, this bug-bot may be the perfect scout: inexpensive, expendable, and capable of surreptitious reconnaissance. The Berkeley researchers, led by Michael Maharbiz, note that beetles are strong enough to carry useful payloads, such as a miniature camera.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which funds this work, is also sponsoring research on ways to implant insects with machinery during early stages of their lives. Butterflies can fly thousands of miles without feeding; a cyborg version would be a good candidate for long-range missions. Perhaps caterpillars could be modified to grow into adults that look like regular butterflies but have embedded wires and electrodes, allowing humans to control their flight. Dragonflies, which can reach 45 miles per hour, might take on high-speed missions. And with a wingspan of almost 10 inches, the moth Thysania agrippa has caught DARPA’s attention as a miniature cargo ship.
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Anonymous 24/5/2009(Sun)07:53:13 No.43443
what are the chances this will actually reach a feasible and cost-effective level relatively soon though?

not to be overly pessimistic, it's just that you hear about all these fantastic new technologies under development, but how many actually end up being used? there always seems to be some complication...

on a more positive note: remote-control fighter bugs is just a really really cool concept
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Anonymous ## ADMIN ## 25/5/2009(Mon)02:38:05 No.43595
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>>43443
They already are feasible and cost-effective. Maybe they don't have a good signal reach or camera yet, but the cyborg bug is working fine.

Also, this is last year news!
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Anonymous 25/5/2009(Mon)02:38:32 No.43596
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>>43443
We have a lot of fantastic new technologies being used today!
There are games where you use your brain waves instead of a joystick.

Here is another video of cyborg bugs
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Anonymous 25/5/2009(Mon)02:39:17 No.43597
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more one video
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Anonymous 25/5/2009(Mon)02:42:29 No.43598
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And a cyborg rat!
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Anonymous 25/5/2009(Mon)02:45:31 No.43601
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How a cyborg rat could be usefull
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Anonymous 25/5/2009(Mon)03:11:00 No.43609
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And how this technology makes us near to human brain-machine interface.
Since I forgot people names and some a lot of boring but importanting information I will buy an good exocortex when they were avaliable.
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Anonymous 25/5/2009(Mon)03:31:22 No.43612
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Now the opposite:
A robot controlled by mammal neurons!

Maybe if we could keep more neurons living outside a living organism we could make a super biological computer!
Then we could make it fell pleasure by researching and we could make it study in ways to make better computers like it self...
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feebas_factor!4pvEs7ZFxY 26/5/2009(Tue)01:19:35 No.44387
ehehe...
I forgot there was one thing I wanted to say this in thread after all

>>43596
>>43597
>>43598
>>43601
>>43609
>>43612

that is: fucking awesome

also
>>43443
was me being cynical
but wow thanks for getting my hopes back up again guys :-}
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Brain-Computer Interface Now testing on volunteers Anonymous 18/6/2009(Thu)02:46:14 No.76356
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The BrainGate2 pilot clinical trial has begun at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. BrainGate is based on research from the lab of John Donoghue, director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science. Donoghue and Dr. Leigh Hochberg, associate professor of engineering at Brown and a vascular and critical care neurologist at Massachusetts General, are leading the research.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — BrainGate, an investigational technology being developed to detect brain signals and to allow people with paralysis to use those signals to control assistive devices, is about to begin a second, larger clinical trial. The system is based on neuroscience, engineering and computer science research at Brown University.
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Anonymous 18/6/2009(Thu)03:01:27 No.76362
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The BrainGate2 pilot clinical trial is taking place at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), in close collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of researchers from MGH and Brown University. The study has been approved by the MGH Institutional Review Board to begin recruiting participants. The trial extends prior safety and feasibility research of the BrainGate Neural Interface System, which consists of an implanted baby aspirin-size brain sensor that reads brain signals and computer technology that interprets these signals. The BrainGate Neural System may allow people with paralysis to control assistive devices.

The new clinical trial is part of a larger BrainGate research effort, the ultimate goal of which is to help patients with spinal cord injury, stroke, muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or limb loss turn their thoughts into actions, restoring independence, mobility, and communication. The work to date with BrainGate trial participants has explored their ability to control robotic limbs, operate computer software and drive a wheelchair. New research will help advance the pilot system.
http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=5576

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Cyborg pigeon Anonymous 30/6/2009(Tue)01:49:47 No.91710
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http://english.people.com.cn/200702/27/eng20070227_352761.html
2007
Chinese scientists said they have succeeded in an experiment to remotely control the flight of a pigeon with electronic technology.

Scientists with the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center of east China's Shandong University of Science and Technology say they implanted micro electrodes in the brain of a pigeon so they can command it to fly right or left or up or down.

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Anonymous 30/6/2009(Tue)01:50:17 No.91711
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The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon's brain according to signals sent by the scientists via computer, and forced the bird to comply with their commands.

It's the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world, said the chief scientist Su Xuecheng.

The electronic signals resemble the signals generated by the brain which control body movement, said Su.

Su and his colleagues are improving the devices used in the experiment ahd hope that the technology can be put into practical use in future.

Su conducted a similar successful experiment on mice in 2005.

Source: Xinhua
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Roachbot Anonymous 17/12/2009(Thu)03:24:25 No.426941
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Somebody also built a robot controlled by a
cockroach, though that's much more simple as they don't use a neural interface.
http://www.conceptlab.com/roachbot/

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