Transcript Rat Brain Robot

The cyborg of our time
Hugo Ribeiro Baldioti
 Cybernetic organism
 Biological and artificial parts
 Neil Harbisson
 Rob Spence
 Kevin Warwick
 Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England
 Artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering
 Project Cyborg 1.0 (1998)
 Project Cyborg 2.0 (2002)
 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
 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
 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
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embe
dded&v=1QPiF4-iu6g&gl=BR
 Culture neurons in three dimensions
 A network of 30 million neurons
 After that, the next step will be to bring in human neurons
 If we have 100 billion human neurons
Should we give it rights?
Does it get to vote?
Is it conscious?
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