<![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Servo [as Jan]: You just had to go fast, didn't you? Now look, Mr. Bigshot! Now I don't have a body anymore! Are you happy?

- - -

[In search of a replacement body for Jan's head, Dr. Bill Cortner examines cardboard cutouts of buxom strippers at a club.]

Mike [as Cortner]: Well, she can't have a cardboard body. I've ruled that out.
Servo [as Cortner]: Well, it's nice and all, but I want something sleazy.

- - -

[Cortner attends a "Body Beautiful" beauty "auction".]

Mike [as Announcer]: Contestant number 3 slipped and her head fell off!
Servo [as Cortner]: I'LL TAKE HER, I'LL TAKE HER!!

- - -

Crow [as Jan]: Look. You know they say there's always someone worse off? I'm that person!

x23

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Professor:
- And NOW, our test subject will mind-control this robotic arm to hold his willy and pee on that toilet....

Test subject:
- Riiiiiiiip... OUCH..... NO NO NO !...

Professor:
- Apparently the robotic arm placed a mechanical finger in test subject anus after he exibited some flatulence induced by pee-straining symdrome.
- Well, we don't have 80% accuracy for nothing !....

Fade to black and commercials...





aec007

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> OK, needing a prosthetic would make life inconvenient enough for me. Needing an updated driver for a prosthetic would make life REALLY inconvenient for me.

Absent Blue

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Well, someone has to say it:

Resistance is futile.

theoldwolf

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> It's "The Brain that Wouldn't Die" ! Gizmodo pictoral references are so awesomely obscure.

LastAndLeast

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> @scarbrtj: Excellent analysis. I was reading down all of the comments to see if anyone else picked up on this.

shortitalian

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> As this will be the ONLY time I may ever get to bring my neuroanatomy knowledge to bear here, I will point out two things...

First, it's the primary motor cortex which is responsible for voluntary muscle control, not the somatosensory cortex.

Second, motor and sensory innervation of the body is represented by a "homonculus." The body is literally mapped to the brain according to this homonculus.
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Now, talk amongst yourselves.


scarbrtj

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> n. pl. vol·un·tar·ies
1. Music
a. A short piece of music, often improvised on a solo instrument, played as an introduction to a larger work.
b. A piece for solo organ, often improvised, played before, during, or after a religious service.
2. A volunteer.

GadgetPlay

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> @SgtMac02:
ey i wanted to alert him to some erros, not crush his spirit by listing ALL of em. jerk!

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Definitely sounds like a win for the quadriplegic crowd.

If they can get enough voluntaries, to test it, of course...

ideaman2020

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Pics from one of the best MST3K movies ever.

P3nnst8r

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> @nutbastard:
Well, if you're going to edit...you might as well also note :
"They claim the invasive open-skull surgery increases allows to control robotic limbs with the mind more accurately."
"This is a risky procedure on itself, "
"The Osaka University team next step"

..but really...who comes here for the English lessons?? I just wanted to see someone's brain get poked at!

SgtMac02

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Yes, the procedure may be invasive, but if truly available to those who have either completely lost their limbs or just the use of them, I would think that many would opt for the chance to be able to control robotic appendages, if only to slap Uwe Boll.

@Curves: Til youre burning up
Head
Til you get enough
Head
Til youre love is red
Head love you til youre dead
Ooh yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah







zenpoet

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> @nutbastard:
You missed a couple, but I don't want to nitpick... oops, guess I AM nitpicking :o


XJ_4x4

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> I say hook this up to that boston dynamics creepy dog robot thing, and we could have super mind-powered robo-centaurs.

...then arm them with lances and joust!

Underpants Gnome

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Is the 80% accuracy the success rate of the surgery in allowing the brain to control the robotic limbs or is it that the brain only has 80% accuracy when it uses the limbs?

I actually wouldn't mind 80% accuracy as long as I can have giant, powerful robotic limbs that allow me to throw cars and tear open ATM machines.

GeekyNerdGuy

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> @Papsky: this is what i was talkin about in my earlier comment.

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Papsky

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Huh. It figures that a plumber would figure out how to do this... Oh wait. Wrong Luigi. Sorry.

TheCyberBob

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Video of the other 20% please.

(Actually, this is pretty freakin incredible...

...but I'd still like video of the other 20% please.)

92BuickLeSabre

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> "has been working with voluntaries that had electrodes installed for other medical applications"

volunteers, maybe?

"The operation doesn't require to penetrate into the brain itself"

maybe: 'doesn't require penetration into the brain itself'

/nazi

nutbastard

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Boy, this all sounds so pleasant!

Slap Bet

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> 80%? Those are good odds for poker, but not so great for, say, walking. Would you let someone stick electrodes in your "Rolandic fissure" in exchange for the ability to knock over your sippy cup 2 out of 10 times?

BasicBlack

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> right, like no one expected this to happen sometime. It's only logical. Problem is the multi-billion dollar mousepad industry

Arelar

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> This will be a boon for the thriving DIY brain surgery crowd.

frigg

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> I actually remember seeing something on TV about people getting something hooked up to their head that allows them to move a mouse cursor on a screen. I think it read/measured their brainwaves or something. It was pretty cool.

Papsky

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Volunteers? Hell, I'm in. As long as I can control a number of different sex toys with my brain... Eeeexcellent.

Darrone

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Head.

(Sorry, I couldnt control myself.)

Curves

]]> <![CDATA[Open-Skull Brain-Machine Interface to Control Robotic Limbs]]> Ah, delicious neck juice.

dingus

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