A Robot Controlled by Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue: The Future of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence commonly abbreviated as AI, has been growing notably in the recent past. Therefore, amidst the evident integration of artificial intelligence into our everyday existence ranging from virtual assistant to self-driving cars, experts should be ready to consult with the public in case a human voice is detected in their artificial intelligent devices they are using. How about a robot that can possibly have the ability to reason and learn like a human is capable of doing?
This may sound like a story from a movie in the future but with the new advances in AI this may not be far from the truth. Experts have taken the social world by storm after they developed a robot operated through human brain tissue grown in the lab. Time and again this innovation has delivered the world a progressive advancement; now let’s look at what options it may present.
What is Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue?
Organoids, that is Lab-grown human brain tissue, are a primary structure similar to that of human brain in a three dimensional format. It is developed out of stock human stem cells whereby such stem cells have the capacity to transform into, for instance, neurons. Such organoids are quite operational, meaning that they can produce electrical impulses typical to a human brain and respond to stimuli. These have been employed in many neurological research areas concerning development of the human brain and diseases affecting it and the use of these is new in the development of AI.
The Robot Controlled by Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue
This little robot was created by a team of scientists of the University of California San Diego and its name is BrainX. It is a small wheeled robot with a camera and a neural network installed in it. This is constituted by the lab-grown human brain tissue that controls the robot’s camera as the neural network of the system. This enable the robot to have vision feed from the environment and use it to make a decision or actions to be taken. Its brain tissue works as a neural network that has been trained to identify objects and recognize the patterns – of course, it controls the robot’s movements as a result.
How Does it Work?
They have the brain tissue on the robot; however, the brain tissue is connected to a computer that translates the brain signals to the robot. This way the data collected by the camera is transferred to the brain tissue and following that the signals are transferred to the computer. These signals are then converted into commands for the robots supposed movements. The more the environments and stimuli presented to the robot, the more the robot learns just like a human brain.
Potential Applications
This research can dramatically change the field and the development of new robotics applications. Imagine if robots are even driven by human brain tissues grown in the laboratory, then it can be seen that machines are capable of having another form of intelligence and flexibility. It can pose a threat to Several industries like health, production, and space investigations. For instance, robots with human like interface can help in operations, working on other sensitive operations in industries, and in space exploration.
The Ethical Debate
However, oblivious of ethics this development has been severally regarded as impressive. It is amazing to see that a man can control a machine from his own brain tissue and it gives rise to question the basics of AI and its disadvantage or open a completely different problem that is a man may overcalculate his machines and make them too intelligent. The issues of the origin of the brain tissue and the moral permissiveness of its use in the research are also a problem. Some of the questions that will have to be answered before this technology is deployed are
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The Future is Here
Artificial intelligence was brought to a new level with the creation of a robot that is controlled by the human brain tissue grown in the laboratory. It takes us one step closer to the creation of machines that are capable of thinking and then acting as humans do. However there are still difficult factors that have to be resolved, but this advancement holds the power to alter the world today. It is unimaginable but at the same time shows how powerful human invention is and how much potential Artificial Intelligence has.
