Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

Cognitive systems

Over a decade ago, Duke University researchers demonstrated cognitive control of a robotic arm by translating neural control signals from electrodes embedded into the parietal and frontal cortex lobes of a monkey's brain. The researchers converted the brain signals into motor servo actuator input. These inputs allowed the monkey—through initial training on a joystick—to control a non-biological, robotic arm using only visual feedback to adjust its own motor-driving thoughts. So-called Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI), or Brain Machine Interfaces (BMI), continue to be advanced by Dr. Miguel Nocolelis' Duke laboratory and others. The technology promises a future in which neuroprosthetics allow debilitated individuals to regain ...