Connecting Human Brain to a Robot
After a successful trial in using a rat brain to control a robot, the scientists at the University of Reading in Great Britain will take their project to the next step and try for the first time to connect a robot to a human brain.
The first experiment used 300 000 nerve cells from the rat brain to control a small robot on wheels. The project initially aimed at getting a deeper knowledge of how the human brain works in order to get a better understanding of brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson by studying the brain signals.
The experiment with human brain cells is the first of its kind and could bring bioengineering and biomechanics in particular into a new era.
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