Teachers Large Field Cybernetics from the University of Reading, UK, Kevin Warwick, can not hide the taste bangganya. Robots clear from the biological nervous (neurons) rats as far as this gives hope.Gordon, as the name of robots, the robots is a biological brain in the first dunia.Gordon dijejali dozens of electrodes to capture electrical signals generated by the brain cells that. The biological brain consists of many neurons in a Multi-Electrode Array (MEA), which will mengomunikasikan and control the robot via a Bluetooth connection. The project is the first to know how the brain stores a specific data.
Each time Gordon approaching object, the signals are sent to make to avoid the collision. Biological brain instructs the wheels to turn right or left. So forth.
For Kevin, teaches at the School of Systems Engineering, a project worth almost half a million Pounds Sterling funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the two members of surprises. First, how the brain is able to manipulate biological body robots. Second, the project is to help them examine further how the brain to learn and save a lot of experience.
"People will know how the brain works and it will impact on many things in the world of science and medicine," he said. The project started on January 1 2007 and will expire 31 December 2009.
Applications treatment
For the team, Gordon ability to move solely because biologisnya ability of the brain, not the end of the study. Furthermore, they learn the biological brain works tolerably complex, including a response to Gordon through the various signals.
From there, for example, the researchers will directly witness how bermanifestasi memories in the brain, when Gordon visited the territory which.
Understanding it believed would help the world understand more about the various diseases related to brain disturbance, such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson, and stroke.
The behavior of complex
Pharmacist who is also member of the team, Ben Whalley, said, there is one fundamental question faced by scientists until now. Namely, how to explain regard the activity of individual neurons with the behavior of complex, as seen in many organisms.
For Ben, a project that gives them a unique opportunity to understand something, that shows the complex behaviors, but still close to the activities of individual neurons. "This gives us hope that the answers of the questions that was very fundamental."
In the world of robotics, the achievement of the team creator of the "Gordon" is the progress of efforts such as the kind done in the mid-2005.
When it inspired biological systems, the researchers developed a miniature robot capable himself up with the parts or materials from the surrounding environment.
Researchers have long faced the question of how cells can live mereplikasi DNA using materials that float is not uniform in the cell nucleus. Until now, such efforts continue.
Like Gordon, a miniature robot developed three years ago is also directed to realize the mistake and try to improve the error. The development of robots use living cells involves the team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Increased rapidly
The development of robots not only challenging for the researchers with the various development purposes. For the public, robot technology is the product of many sought and utilized.
2004, the annual survey of world robotics, held the UN mentioned, the use of robots for household and office reached seven times in the year 2007.
The types of robots that, among others, cutting the grass, vacuum cleaner, and cleaning windows. The end of 2003, recorded 607,000 automated tools used at the household level. The number of the new 2 / 3 of the total tool in that year.
The end of the year 2007, the amount increased to 4.1 million. Inhaler dust now ranked first tool is used, followed by rapid demand fluctuations window cleaning robots and pool cleaning.
In the field of robot toys, robot dog AIBO, Sony also made very attractive to consumers. A study noted, there are at least 692,000 robots entertainer (entertainment robots) in the world.
Replace the role of human
Slowly but surely, robots began to replace the role of human beings. From the previous work under the direct control of the user, the robot meaningful change: working with independent pascapemrograman computer.
In large companies, robots replace human tasks, such as in the field of product assembly. Now, it is estimated there are 21,000 kinds of industrial robots have been used (service robots) for various tasks, such as milk dairy cows, handling toxic waste and dangerous, to help operate the theaters.
According to a study, the end of this decade, robots not only clean the floors, cut grass, and keep the house, but also help the elderly and among people with disabilities. Robots are also provided, gentle bomb, extinguish the fire, and check the location of the dangerous man.
Progress technology enables robots to do many things previously unimaginable. Robot Gordon biological brain shows this invaluable, bridge the gulf between biology and technology. (arien novarian)
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