What is Cybernetics capable of?
1. Research at Emory University: • implanted a transmitted device into the brain of a stroke patient • linked motor neurons to silicon • afterwards, patient was able to move a cursor on a computer screen just by thinking about it • rat neurons growing over a microelectrode array, has basic speech recognition 2. In 1998, Kevin Warwick became the first human to be implanted with a silicon chip with which he could simply turn the lights on by entering a room. The chip that was implanted into his wrist transmits signals to a computer, which actually activates the switch. 3. Other more widely available current technologies are, electronic pacemakers, artificial joints, drug implant systems, implanted corneal lenses, and artificial skin In Chicago, researchers have fused the brain of a primitive lamprey eel with a robot the size of a hockey puck, creating a living machine that tracks a beam of light in a laboratory ring, like a miniature bull chasing a matador’s red cape. In the future, it m
