This piece came out Duke University yesterday. Amazing "hive-mind" potential here.
They linked rhesus macaque monkeys together to see if they could cooperate mentally and move the arm of a digital avatar to touch a moving target. The rats they linked together were tasked with things like pattern recognition and retrieval of sensory information. Can't wait to see where this technology leads!
They linked rhesus macaque monkeys together to see if they could cooperate mentally and move the arm of a digital avatar to touch a moving target. The rats they linked together were tasked with things like pattern recognition and retrieval of sensory information. Can't wait to see where this technology leads!
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"Neuroscientists have introduced a new paradigm for brain-machine interfaces that investigates the physiological properties and adaptability of brain circuits, and how the brains of two or more animals can work together to complete simple tasks. These brain networks, or Brainets, were developed in rodents and primates."
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"This is the first demonstration of a shared brain-machine interface, a paradigm that has been translated successfully over the past decades from studies in animals all the way to clinical applications," said Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph. D., co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering at the Duke University School of Medicine and principal investigator for the study. "We foresee that shared BMIs will follow the same track, and could soon be translated to clinical practice."
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"This is the first demonstration of a shared brain-machine interface, a paradigm that has been translated successfully over the past decades from studies in animals all the way to clinical applications," said Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph. D., co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering at the Duke University School of Medicine and principal investigator for the study. "We foresee that shared BMIs will follow the same track, and could soon be translated to clinical practice."