Neuroscience
Great work by Tsukuba University:
"An exoskeleton that can be worn by a human is a new type of robot under development at Tsukuba University. It's called Hybrid Assistive Limb, HAL for short, and anyone who wears it has potential to lift up to 10-times the weight they normally could."
... well done!!! And, it's got EMG at its core, taking it one step closer to being a BCI...
"HAL works by figuring out what the wearer's muscle are doing. The suit then simply reacts.
“The command signals from the brain are transmitted to the muscles through the motor neurons, and we can detect such faint bio-electrical signals on the surface of the skin, and these signals are calibrated into the computer here, and after that this computer controls these power units so he can move or upgrade his power,” says Sankai.
And believe it or not, sometimes the suit interprets those electrical signals more quickly than the wearer's muscles. In other words, it moves before the human muscle does."
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Neuroscience
Robotic Exoskeletons - handy at work and home
Great work by Tsukuba University:
"An exoskeleton that can be worn by a human is a new type of robot under development at Tsukuba University. It's called Hybrid Assistive Limb, HAL for short, and anyone who wears it has potential to lift up to 10-times the weight they normally could."
... well done!!! And, it's got EMG at its core, taking it one step closer to being a BCI...
"HAL works by figuring out what the wearer's muscle are doing. The suit then simply reacts.
“The command signals from the brain are transmitted to the muscles through the motor neurons, and we can detect such faint bio-electrical signals on the surface of the skin, and these signals are calibrated into the computer here, and after that this computer controls these power units so he can move or upgrade his power,” says Sankai.
And believe it or not, sometimes the suit interprets those electrical signals more quickly than the wearer's muscles. In other words, it moves before the human muscle does."
- New Dawn In Brain-machine Interfacing
Scientists have made a breakthrough in their efforts to bring paralysed people the ability to use thought power alone to control artificial limbs, and to interact with computers and other electrical devices. John Donoghue and colleagues implanted a tiny...
- Remote-controlled Pigeons
Pigeonbots-- apparently not controlled via MFB stimulation, but direct motor control. http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/02/cyborg_flying_r.html http://tenementpalm.blogspot.com/2007/02/psb-buys-tiny-german-spy-copters.html http://english.people.com.cn/200702/27/eng20070227_352761.html...
- Growing Neural Circuits Into An 'extension Cord'
Neural 'extension cord' developed for brain implants 19 January 2007 - New Scientist. Smith, at Pennsylvania. Quite a nice trick. "A group of neurons is cultured on top of an array of 96 electrodes covered with a protein coating that causes them...
- Robot Suit Hal (hybrid Assistive Limb) Back In The News
...
- Embryonic Stem-cell Research
From an NIH press release: Neurons Grown from Embryonic Stem Cells Restore Function in Paralyzed Rats For the first time, researchers have enticed transplants of embryonic stem cell-derived motor neurons in the spinal cord to connect...