Friday, December 4th, 2009
European scientists have successfully connected a robotic hand to an amputee named Pierpaolo Petruzziello, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts. The result of ten years of research by scientists at the Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma in Italy and Lund University in ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
[caption id="attachment_2194" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Researchers at the University of Reading have created a robot controlled by living neurons. Image courtesy of Diem Photography/University of Reading"][/caption]
Meet Gordon--likely the world's first rodent cyborg. Developed at the University of Reading, the robot is controlled by a disassociated bundle of rat neurons, which are ...
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