Advances in Brain-Machine Engineering – Video

Posted: February 17, 2013 at 8:48 pm




Advances in Brain-Machine Engineering
Todd Coleman presented his work at a symposium on Saturday 16 February, "Advances in Brain-Machine Interfaces: Applications and Implications." 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston (Credit: Todd Coleman, associate professor at the University of California, San Diego and UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering). - Machines That Communicate With the Body http://www.aaas.org An "electronic tattoo" the size of a postage stamp and the thickness of a human hair can be used to monitor laboring women and seizure-prone infants, because it provides a non-invasive way to track the electrical rhythms on the surface of the body, according to Todd Coleman of the University of California, San Diego. Another apparatus, developed by Miguel Nicolelis of Duke University Medical Center and colleagues, allows rats to "feel" infared light by stimulating the tactile center in their brains. Devices like these could have remarkable benefits, but they may also lead to ethical, legal and social quandaries that should be discussed as the technology progresses, researchers said at the AAAS Annual Meeting. Speakers in the session on brain-machine interfaces, organized by AAAS #39; Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion (DoSER) program, suggested that the most extreme examples mdash;of cyborgs or people endowed with superhuman abilities courtesy of machines mdash;are far from becoming reality. But neuroscience applications, in particular, are moving along much faster than other technologies like genetic engineering in the ...

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