When will I be able to upload my brain to a computer?
We often imagine that human consciousness is as simple as input and output of electrical signals within a network of processing units – therefore comparable to a computer. Reality, however,...
DARPA Announces Funding For a High-Resolution, Implantable Neural Interface
The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has just announced contracts to fund five research groups and one company contracts as jump start its Neural Engineering System Design...
Loughborough University develop revolutionary explosive detection device
Loughborough University has unveiled a new device that can identify tiny amounts of explosive particles invisible to the naked eye. ExDtect – the brainchild of Loughborough professor John Tyler uses...
Brain implants give rats the ability to sense infrared light
A team of researchers led by Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicoleli have successfully implanted infrared sensors into the brains of rats, allowing them to sense and react to infrared light....
Dissolving brain monitor developed by scientists
Traditionally an injured brain requires several rounds of surgery, a mess of wires and exposed wounds in order to find out what’s happening. However, this could be about to change....
Robots sensory skin
A team from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, led by Xiaodeng Chen, have developed a sensitive skin for robots. The skin is made up of skin-inspired touch sensors which...