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Oct 29, 2022

Engineers light the way to nerve-operated prosthetics of the future

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, neuroscience

Biomedical and electrical engineers at UNSW Sydney have developed a new way to measure neural activity using light—rather than electricity—which could lead to a complete reimagining of medical technologies like nerve-operated prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces.

Professor François Ladouceur, with UNSW’s School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, says the multi-disciplinary team has just demonstrated in the lab what it proved theoretically shortly before the pandemic: that sensors built using liquid crystal and integrated optics technologies—dubbed “optrodes”—can register nerve impulses in a living animal body.

Not only do these optrodes perform just as well as conventional electrodes—that use electricity to detect a nerve impulse—but they also address “very thorny issues that competing technologies cannot address,” says Prof. Ladouceur.

Oct 25, 2022

Video: An engineer produces a torch-like prosthetic for his lost eye

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs

He turned a crisis into an opportunity.

Brian Stanley is a living human cyborg. He has gone viral after sharing a video on social media with an eye flashlight that can light up the whole room. After losing one eye to cancer.

As Brian Stanley suggested in the video, the eye has a battery life of roughly 20 hours, and “it does not get hot.”

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Oct 25, 2022

For COVID-19 Sufferers Who Have Lost Their Sense Of Smell There Is The Bionic Nose

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, transhumanism

For COVID-19 sufferers who have lost their sense of smell there is the promis of a future bionic nose.


Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University are building a neuroprosthetic to help those who lose their ability to smell.

Oct 22, 2022

8-Year-Old Boy With Cerebral Palsy Walks Using Robotic Exoskeleton

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, robotics/AI

A titanium robotic exoskeleton is helping an eight-year-old boy in Mexico learn to walk after being wheelchair-bound for most of his life.

The boy, David, suffers from cerebral palsy, a group of neurological disorders that surfaces during early childhood and hinders a child’s ability to control their muscle movements. In effect, it makes it extremely difficult for an affected child to walk and maintain their balance and posture.

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Oct 19, 2022

A Turkish clinic swaps refugees’ warzone-welded prosthetics for free 3D-printed ones

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs

Oct 14, 2022

This Exoskeleton Uses Machine Learning to Put a Personalized Spring in Your Step

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, economics, information science, robotics/AI

“This exoskeleton personalizes assistance as people walk normally through the real world,” said Steve Collins, associate professor of mechanical engineering who leads the Stanford Biomechatronics Laboratory, in a press release. “And it resulted in exceptional improvements in walking speed and energy economy.”

The personalization is enabled by a machine learning algorithm, which the team trained using emulators—that is, machines that collected data on motion and energy expenditure from volunteers who were hooked up to them. The volunteers walked at varying speeds under imagined scenarios, like trying to catch a bus or taking a stroll through a park.

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Oct 11, 2022

Cyborg cockroaches are coming, and they just want to help

Posted by in categories: climatology, cyborgs, robotics/AI, space, sustainability

Inspired by insects, robotic engineers are creating machines that could aid in search and rescue, pollinate plants and sniff out gas leaks.

Cyborg cockroaches that find earthquake survivors. A “robofly” that sniffs out gas leaks. Flying lightning bugs that pollinate farms in space.

These aren’t just buzzy ideas, they’re becoming reality.

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Oct 8, 2022

Utah Bionic Leg: The most advanced AI-powered prosthetics ‘ever created’

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, transhumanism

The users can effectively manipulate the prosthetics exactly like they would with an intact limb.

University of Utah researchers have developed the most advanced AI-powered prosthetics “ever created,” prompting Ottobock, the world’s largest prosthetic manufacturer, to collaborate with them to launch the project globally.

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Sep 25, 2022

Atom Limbs Newsroom: The latest news & announcements

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, transhumanism

March 10, 2022 Benzinga — This Startup Is Creating The World’s First Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm — Last Call To Invest

March 10, 2022 Yahoo — This Startup Is Creating The World’s First Mind-Controlled Prosthetic Arm — Last Call To Invest

March 2, 2022 Interesting Engineering — A new artificial human arm is moving prosthetics one step closer to true bionics.

Sep 20, 2022

Scientists Have Long Dreamed of a Memory Prosthesis. The First Human Trials Look Promising

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, computing, cyborgs, neuroscience

For the memory prosthetic, the team focused on two specific regions: CA1 and CA3, which form a highly interconnected neural circuit. Decades of work in rodents, primates, and humans have pointed to this neural highway as the crux for encoding memories.

The team members, led by Drs. Dong Song from the University of Southern California and Robert Hampson at Wake Forest School of Medicine, are no strangers to memory prosthetics. With “memory bioengineer” Dr. Theodore Berger—who’s worked on hijacking the CA3-CA1 circuit for memory improvement for over three decades—the dream team had their first success in humans in 2015.

The central idea is simple: replicate the hippocampus’ signals with a digital replace ment. It’s no easy task. Unlike computer circuits, neural circuits are non-linear. This means that signals are often extremely noisy and overlap in time, which bolsters—or inhibits—neural signals. As Berger said at the time: “It’s a chaotic black box.”

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