Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

AI controls laser-guided worms as if they were robots + Stroke patients interface

#1
C C Offline
How robots and brain-computer interfaces could transform stroke patients’ recovery
https://bioengineer.org/how-robots-and-b...-recovery/


AI controls laser-guided worms as if they were robots
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opini...orms-68957

EXCERPTS: Roboticists have for the first time built an automated computational system for controlling the movements of a living multicellular organism—a genetically engineered worm (Caenorhabditis elegans) whose muscles contract in response to blue light. The laser-guided nematode, described last week (June 30) in Science Robotics, is called RoboWorm.

“Most of the biohybrid microrobots [in development] are mainly based on bacteria,” says Li Zhang, a nanomaterials and microrobotics researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong who was not involved in the research. But in this study, “they propose the use of C. elegans, a worm, as a robotic agent . . . [in a] very interesting and smart way.”

[...] C. elegans, is a free-living nematode worm approximately 1 mm in length that resides in soil and is an extensively studied model organism in laboratories around the world. Liu says he does not have a particular application in mind for RoboWorm; rather, its creation was a “conceptual demonstration.” But it may inspire further microrobotic developments. Indeed, says Zhang, while C. elegans does not live in humans, it has close parasitic relatives that do, and perhaps future versions of RoboWorm could have biomedical uses... (MORE - details)


https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KGy-3WK6hNM
Reply


Possibly Related Threads…
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Article Laser strikes against planes hit record high (technology abuse) C C 0 23 Mar 24, 2024 10:39 PM
Last Post: C C
  New brain-computer interface with flexible backing + Stackable ‘holobricks’ make g... C C 0 63 Mar 16, 2022 06:43 PM
Last Post: C C
  Insect-sized, flying robots + People prefer interacting with female robots in hotels C C 0 70 Feb 3, 2022 10:46 PM
Last Post: C C
  US Navy ship blasts target with high energy laser Magical Realist 2 79 Dec 17, 2021 02:29 PM
Last Post: Zinjanthropos
  Brain-computer interface turns mental writing into text C C 0 52 Nov 13, 2021 02:50 AM
Last Post: C C
  Social robots may be more persuasive if they project less authority C C 1 86 Sep 23, 2021 03:32 AM
Last Post: Leigha
  Brain-computer interface allows paralysed man to write again C C 1 176 May 14, 2021 09:45 AM
Last Post: stryder
  Myth? Vibrator invented to treat female patients suffering from hysteria C C 0 374 Nov 8, 2018 02:30 AM
Last Post: C C
  Physicists create first 'topological' laser C C 0 326 Oct 30, 2017 02:57 AM
Last Post: C C
  How US Navy's Futuristic Laser Weapon Uses Old-School Telephone Tech C C 0 394 Aug 4, 2017 06:18 AM
Last Post: C C



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)