A new match-sized invention is expected to return independent mobility to paralyzed patients as early as next year.
Australian researchers have developed a stent-based electrode (stentrode) that can be safely implanted into the brain and will allow users to control mobility mechanisms (like robotic limbs, exoskeletons or wheelchairs) through brain commands alone.
“Currently, exoskeletons are controlled by manual manipulation of a joystick,” explains Dr Nicholas Opie,...
News about a supercomputer beating a human at a board-game doesn’t quite capture the public imagination like it used to. A lot was made of IBM’s computer, Deep Blue, being able to beat chess champ Garry Kasparov in 1997; Newsweek ran a cover article with the title, “The Brain’s Last Stand”, the New York Times ran a piece “One Man, One Machine”, and the...
Researchers at Columbia Engineering have just taken a big step towards making the movie Terminator a reality. They’ve made a breakthrough in the field...
Although unemployment sounds like an inherently negative concept, an ideal, functioning government has to maintain a small percentage of unemployed workers at all times....
In the race to develop artificial intelligence, one player is fielding an uncommon strategy. OpenAI, an initiative launched last December, sets itself apart from...
