[agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-13 Thread Ed Porter
"A 'Frankenrobot' with a biological brain Meet Gordon, probably the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue." Article at http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080813192458.ud84hj9h&show_article=1 --- agi Archives: https:/

Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-13 Thread Mike Tintner
[agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissueThanks, Ed. My casual impression is that the scientist here, Kevin Warwick, is un peu d'un nut - although skilled at self-publicising. Some years ago, he had a chip sewn into his arm. He was going to open doors with

RE: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-13 Thread Ed Porter
] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 8:05 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue Thanks, Ed. My casual impression is that the scientist here, Kevin Warwick, is un peu d'un nut - although skilled at self-p

Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-14 Thread Bob Mottram
2008/8/14 Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "A 'Frankenrobot' with a biological brain I doubt that there will be much practical application of biological neuron powered robots, since the overhead of keeping the biology alive would be too troublesome (requiring feeding and removal of waste products

Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-14 Thread Ciro Aisa
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:25:57AM +0100, Bob Mottram wrote: > > I doubt that there will be much practical application of biological > neuron powered robots, since the overhead of keeping the biology alive > would be too troublesome (requiring feeding and removal of waste products), Actually, bet

Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-14 Thread Bob Mottram
2008/8/14 Ciro Aisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:25:57AM +0100, Bob Mottram wrote: >> I doubt that there will be much practical application of biological >> neuron powered robots, since the overhead of keeping the biology alive >> would be too troublesome (requiring feeding and

Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-14 Thread Mike Archbold
> 2008/8/14 Ciro Aisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:25:57AM +0100, Bob Mottram wrote: >>> I doubt that there will be much practical application of biological >>> neuron powered robots, since the overhead of keeping the biology alive >>> would be too troublesome (requiring feedi

RE: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-14 Thread Ed Porter
Archbold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:24 PM To: agi@v2.listbox.com Subject: Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue > 2008/8/14 Ciro Aisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:25:57AM +010

Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-15 Thread Bob Mottram
2008/8/15 Ed Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The training issue is a real one, but presumably over time electronics that > would be part of these wetware/hardware combination brains could be > developed to train the wetware/hardware machines --- under the control > guidance of external systems at the

Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-15 Thread Mike Tintner
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/warwick.html --- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&i

Re: [agi] Meet the world's first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue

2008-08-15 Thread Matt Mahoney
Mike Tintner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/warwick.html An interesting perspective. Instead of brain tissue controlling a machine, we have a brain wanting to be controlled by a machine. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---