The News Of Tomorrow, Today
The News Of Tomorrow, Today
Cybernetics
During the impending robopocalypse, humanity will have to ward off freakishly agile androids, robotic dogs, whatever the hell this is, and, as new research from MIT suggests, quasi-autonomous, mobile robot-plant hybrids.
These days, it’s no surprise to hear about primates controlling a robotic arm with their brains – even paralysed humans have done it. But how would a brain need to adapt if one of the limbs was missing?
Researchers in the Netherlands have successfully tested a brain implant that allows a patient with late-stage Lou Gehrig’s disease to spell messages at the rate of two letters per minute.
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