Chinese robot has a brain made from human cells

Chinese scientists have developed a robot with an artificial brain grown from human stem cells that can perform tasks such as gripping objects.

Specifically, according to researchers at Tianjin University and Southern University of Science and Technology, this artificial brain combines brain tissue derived from human stem cells with a neural interface chip. . Scientists will train robots with this artificial brain to avoid obstacles and grasp objects.

According to Tianjin University, this is the world's first intelligent complex information interaction system on a brain chip and could lead to the development of hybrid intelligence between humans and robots.

The research team says they can help organs integrate and develop better in the brain, improve the differentiation of organoid cells into neurons, thereby improving the networks that they form with the host brain thanks to a technique that uses low-intensity ultrasound,

This is a branch of brain-computer interface, also known as BCI - a system that decodes brain signals and converts them into commands for external technology devices that can help paralyzed patients use brain waves to control the brain. Control a computer or electronic device only without movement.

If the system works, patients with serious degenerative diseases such as paralysis could completely use their minds to text or surf social networks.

Marvin Fry

Update 03 July 2024