The cyborg of our time

Rat Brain Robot

Hugo Ribeiro Baldioti

Cybernetic organism Biological and artificial parts

Cyborgs

Neil Harbisson Rob Spence Kevin Warwick

Human living cyborgs

Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England

Artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering

Kevin Warwick

Project Cyborg 1.0 (1998) Project Cyborg 2.0 (2002)

Kevin Warwick

Controlled by neurons from a rat’s brain

A robot consisting of two wheels with a sonar sensor

Has no microprocessor of it’s own

Rat brain robot

Embryonic neurons are separated out and allowed to grow on na electrode array

A mesh of about 100000 neurons can grow within several days

After about a week he starts to pulse the electrodes in search of a pathway

How it works?

Once they have a pathway researchers use the connection to get the robot to roam around and learn to avoid crashing into walls

Bluetooth communication

With time and repetition the neural pathway become stronger

The robot learn for itself how to not bash into obstacles

How it works?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1QPiF4-iu6g&gl=BR

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Culture neurons in three dimensions

A network of 30 million neurons

After that, the next step will be to bring in human neurons

Future...

If we have 100 billion human neurons

Should we give it rights?Does it get to vote?

Is it conscious?

Now what?

hugo.baldioti@engenharia.ufjf.br

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