• Meet the man with a thought-controlled robotic arm
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[video=youtube;EOki726b3MM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOki726b3MM[/video] Fucking technology man, wow. :joy:
[video=youtube;Ns7fNPiNiNc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns7fNPiNiNc[/video] It's happening
Not gonna lie if these things become more streamlined I'd happily cut off one of my hands for a robot one.
So what's the difference between this and other such implants if he still has to use his muscles and switch grips to control it? I understand that it sounds amazing, but statistically a lot of people who have received such implants tend to ask for the doctors to give them back the hooks.
"Put down the gun" "Officer I literally don't even have a hand which could be holding that gun"
Walter White?
That guy's attitude is awesome.
[QUOTE=Fapplejack;49442575]Not gonna lie if these things become more streamlined I'd happily cut off one of my hands for a robot one.[/QUOTE] enjoy never having the sensation of billions of nervous cells sending you complex information about what you are touching
[QUOTE=Glitchman;49442651]enjoy never having the sensation of billions of nervous cells sending you complex information about what you are touching[/QUOTE] forget that, imagine trying to wipe your butt with a $1200 prototype prosthetic on loan from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Center
[QUOTE=Cone;49442697]forget that, imagine trying to wipe your butt with a $1200 prototype prosthetic on loan from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Center[/QUOTE] imagine masturbating with it
[QUOTE=Fapplejack;49442575]Not gonna lie if these things become more streamlined I'd happily cut off one of my hands for a robot one.[/QUOTE] You would only be as strong as the part that is connected to the mechanical piece. I.E. super cyborg strength is bogus
[QUOTE=Glitchman;49442651]enjoy never having the sensation of billions of nervous cells sending you complex information about what you are touching[/QUOTE] He said that they're currently trying to work in sensations of soft/hard/hot/cold/texture into the hand, so theres that.
[QUOTE=boobs;49444278]You would only be as strong as the part that is connected to the mechanical piece. I.E. super cyborg strength is bogus[/QUOTE] The answer is simple. Transfer your consciousness into a robot body.
[QUOTE=boobs;49444278]You would only be as strong as the part that is connected to the mechanical piece. I.E. super cyborg strength is bogus[/QUOTE] What if you're just a brain in a robot body? [editline]2nd January 2016[/editline] What if you have a robot arm up to and including the pectoral area?
[QUOTE=boobs;49444278]You would only be as strong as the part that is connected to the mechanical piece. I.E. super cyborg strength is bogus[/QUOTE] this is technically incorrect, even in sci-fi such as deus ex the super strength people have augmented shoulders to go with the arms and reinforced spines
I've made a mind controlled drone, a mind controlled golf cart, and in February I'm making a mind controlled Tesla. Shit's entirely accessible now.
[QUOTE=AaronM202;49444362]What if you're just a brain in a robot body? [editline]2nd January 2016[/editline] What if you have a robot arm up to and including the pectoral area?[/QUOTE] Any significant work done by that arm is going to put strain on the shoulders, shoulder blades, spine, legs, etc. Everything is connected. Lifting with your arms still puts strain on all structure below that arm.
The most interesting part about this one is that it's connected to and held up by the skeleton imo all the prosthetics i've seen in videos before have been held up with huge harnesses and stuff
It feels odd to me that in some point of my life, we might actually have videogames where you can not only see things through virtual reality stuff like the Rift and Vive, but we also might have the ability to wear those MindWave headsets and simply sit down and just imagine doing the actions like running and such, and control your characters through that method.
[QUOTE=Fapplejack;49442575]Not gonna lie if these things become more streamlined I'd happily cut off one of my hands for a robot one.[/QUOTE] thats a quick way to get cyberpsychosis
[QUOTE=Wii60;49451782]thats a quick way to get cyberpsychosis[/QUOTE] Worth it. Eventually transfer consciousness into a computer/robot (if that's even possible in any way) and you'll live long enough for robotic bodies to become indistinguishable from our current ones (if that's also possible)
You know its cool that they're making it as non-invasive as possible by detecting with those Myoelectric bands, but it just seems like it'd be alot more precise if they had a nerve-to-electrode-array connection ([URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)"]PEDOT is a real thing[/URL]). I.E. with the electrode array they'd be able to map the individual movements of fingers, wrist, elbow, etc more efficiently and simultaneously. And unlike in Deus Ex, [URL="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/la800333g"]PEDOT is actually safe for cells with very minimal immune/inflammatory/cytotoxic response.[/URL]
If it's wireless I wonder how strong the security is if they have even implemented any. I wouldn't want a script kiddie getting control of my arm.
[QUOTE=spiritlol;49454114]If it's wireless I wonder how strong the security is if they have even implemented any. I wouldn't want a script kiddie getting control of my arm.[/QUOTE] Pretty sure the wireless is just for experimental reasons, it'd probably be easier with just a bundle of wire running from the myoelectric sensors to the arm itself. The wireless is probably Bluetooth 4.0 which has AES-256 encryption on both ends.
[QUOTE=spiritlol;49454114]If it's wireless I wonder how strong the security is if they have even implemented any. I wouldn't want a script kiddie getting control of my arm.[/QUOTE] They're just using [URL="https://www.myo.com/"]Myo's[/URL], which are hacked quite regularly at different engineering competitions, so your concerns are well founded :v:
[QUOTE=spiritlol;49454114]If it's wireless I wonder how strong the security is if they have even implemented any. [/QUOTE] It's the new great frontier of cyber attacks. "Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!"
[QUOTE=Lolkork;49459822]We'll probably create artificial bodies far before we manage to transfer consciousness to computers, right now we don't even fully understand how our minds work.[/QUOTE] I'm hoping that the tech to start gradually and safely replacing parts of the brain with tech will get developed during my lifetime at least. Since the consciousness is a product of the brain, maybe it's possible to have a transferal of consciousness that way. Replace a part, get the brain to somehow grow into or accommodate the tech part, replace more, maybe even without cutting off the stream of consciousness you're experiencing.
Maybe one day my dream of being all aug'd out will be a reality [sp]I CAN DREAM DAMN IT[/sp]
[QUOTE=EcksDee;49460879]I'm hoping that the tech to start gradually and safely replacing parts of the brain with tech will get developed during my lifetime at least. Since the consciousness is a product of the brain, maybe it's possible to have a transferal of consciousness that way. Replace a part, get the brain to somehow grow into or accommodate the tech part, replace more, maybe even without cutting off the stream of consciousness you're experiencing.[/QUOTE] if you're that worried about continuing the stream of consciousness, what makes being put under for surgery and waking up with a partially new brain any different? unless you plan on the surgery getting so advanced they can do it while you're awake (and as they remove chunks of your brain) you're still no more persistent as an entity, it just offers a slightly more immediate illusion of it because we equate it with going to bed and you'd wake up in the same place you were put to sleep. if they just did the upload after putting you under it would be exactly the same from your perspective.
[QUOTE=EcksDee;49453320]Worth it. Eventually transfer consciousness into a computer/robot (if that's even possible in any way) and you'll live long enough for robotic bodies to become indistinguishable from our current ones (if that's also possible)[/QUOTE] Except that won't be "you", at least not from your perspective. It would just be a copy that you have no conscious connection to.
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