Embodied Cognition is Not What you Think it is. Introduction The most exciting idea in cognitive science right now is the theory that cognition is embodied.
It is, in fact one of the things interested lay people know about cognitive science, thanks to many recent high profile experiments. These experiments claim to show (1) how cognition can be influenced and biased by states of the body (e.g., Eerland et al., 2011) or the environment (Adam and Galinsky, 2012) or (2) that abstract cognitive states are grounded in states of the body and using the former affects the latter (e.g., Lakoff and Johnson, 1980, 1999; Miles et al., 2010). The problem, however, is that this is not really what embodied cognition is about. Embodiment is the surprisingly radical hypothesis that the brain is not the sole cognitive resource we have available to us to solve problems.
This paper will proceed as follows. Standard Cognitive Explanations for Behavior Embodied Cognition: Four Key Questions. MedIT. Reshaping the Idea of the Cyborg - MindMedley. Neo Techno Ethica. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. Killer Robots: Autonomous Weapons Authorized for Lethal Force. Controlling Computers with Your Mind. November 8, 2010 Scientists used a brain-computer interface to show how the activity of just a few brain cells can control the display of pictures on a computer screen.
The finding sheds light on how single brain cells contribute to attention and conscious thought. Patients were asked to focus on 1 of 2 superimposed images, here of Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe. Researchers have been making great progress in developing brain-computer interfaces—devices that let a person's thoughts guide the actions of a computer. This technology can potentially help paralysis patients control prosthetic limbs and communicate. A team of scientists led by Dr. The scientists recruited 12 patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. In a previous study, the researchers found that individual brain cells respond more strongly to certain images than to others. For this study, the scientists first identified neurons in each person that responded selectively to 4 different images. Tech: Man Controls Robotic Hand with Mind. Mind-controlled robot arms show promise.
Braingate2.org Using a robot arm, 'Cathy' was able to lift a bottle for the first time in 15 years.
Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity, a paper in Nature reports today1. The study participants — known as Cathy and Bob — had had strokes that damaged their brain stems and left them with tetraplegia and unable to speak. Neurosurgeons implanted tiny recording devices containing almost 100 hair-thin electrodes in the motor cortex of their brains, to record the neuronal signals associated with intention to move.
Nerve-Electronic Hybrid Could Meld Mind and Machine. Nerve-cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining toward the sun.
The discovery that offshoots from nascent mouse nerve cells explore the specially designed tubes could lead to tricks for studying nervous system diseases or testing the effects of potential drugs. Such a system may even bring researchers closer to brain-computer interfaces that seamlessly integrate artificial limbs or other prosthetic devices. Hod Lipson: Robots that are "self-aware" The best robotic hands.
Robo-Plants Respond to Human Touch « Robotics. Building a Super Robust Robot Hand. German researchers have built an anthropomorphic robot hand that can endure collisions with hard objects and even strikes from a hammer without breaking into pieces.
In designing the new hand system, researchers at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics, part of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), focused on robustness. They may have just built the toughest robot hand yet. Robotic hand nearly identical to a human one (w/ Video) (PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to finding the single best tool for building, digging, grasping, drawing, writing, and many other tasks, nothing beats the human hand.
Human hands have evolved over millions of years into four fingers and a thumb that can precisely manipulate a wide variety of objects. In a recent study, researchers have attempted to recreate the human hand by building a biomimetic robotic hand that they have optimized to achieve near-human appearance and performance. The researchers, Nicholas Thayer and Shashank Priya from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, have published their study on the robotic hand in a recent issue of Smart Materials and Structures.
The researchers call the hand a dexterous anthropomorphic robotic typing hand, or DART hand, as the main objective was to demonstrate that the hand could type on a computer keyboard. Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Thoughts. A neural interface device allows patients to control a robotic arm with their minds.
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At the end of 2007, around one million industrial robots and 5.5 million service robots were working around the world: in factories, in dangerous and unhealthy environments, in hospitals, in private households, in public buildings, underwater, under the earth, in fields, in the air, and in space. By the end of 2011, this number is expected to rise markedly.
According to the IFR estimate, based on an assumed four per cent worldwide growth in each of the coming years, 1.2 million industrial robots and 17 million service robots will then be populating the world. Almost 115,000 industrial robots were newly added in 2007. Turnover last year on the worldwide market for robotic systems – which includes hardware, software, peripheral devices, and industrial systems development – was approximately $18B. As these figures already suggest, robots are not yet quite so omnipresent in industry as computers. In Warehouses, Kiva's Robots Do the Heavy Lifting. Jairus Dennis, a packer for the ritzy online retailer Gilt Groupe, works on a kind of warehouse dream team.
A Cheap, One-Armed Robot to Work with Humans. According to Melonee Wise, the manual laborer of the future has only one arm and stands just three feet, two inches tall. Such are the vital statistics of UBR1, a $35,000 mobile robot unveiled today by Wise’s startup company Unbounded Robotics. Wise, the company’s CEO and cofounder, says her business will at first sell the robot to researchers in academia and industry, who currently must either pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get hold of a similar robot or build one themselves. This Robot Could Transform Manufacturing.
Get a grip: Baxter demonstrates a simple manufacturing task at Rethink Robotics’ headquarters in Boston. Meet "Smart Restaurant": The Minimum-Wage-Crushing, Burger-Flipping Robot. A robot in every home: Dyson enters race to provide ‘advanced household androids’ for all. The Humanoid Robot "NEXTAGE" realizing a flexible assembly line received the "Special Award for Next Generation Industry" at the 5th Robot Award Contest in Japan.
Ten of the Best Movie Robots. Robots in movies has always been a fascinating subject.