{"id":10128,"date":"2014-02-10T22:41:43","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T06:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10128"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:17:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:17:05","slug":"darpa-and-the-pentagon-are-working-on-tiny-brain-robots-to-help-soldiers-with-memory-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/darpa-and-the-pentagon-are-working-on-tiny-brain-robots-to-help-soldiers-with-memory-loss","title":{"rendered":"DARPA And The Pentagon Are Working On Tiny Brain Robots To Help Soldiers With Memory Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>By <em><a title=\"Posts by Sam Maggs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/author\/sam-maggs\/\" rel=\"author\">Sam Maggs<\/a> \u2014 Geekosystem<br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-193421 aligncenter\" alt=\"brain scan\" src=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><br \/> Not content with only building <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/wildcat\/\">gigantic horror-bots<\/a> that will one day <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/schaft-win\/\">rule your city<\/a> with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/google-robot-army\/\">literal iron fist<\/a>, DARPA has teamed up with the Pentagon to get a little smaller - implantable-brain-robot smaller. Hopefully, this new project will help treat memory loss in soldiers injured in combat (and not turn them into weird DARPA-slavebots).<\/p>\n<p>Though <a title=\"Get Quote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/MDT:US\">Medtronic Inc. (MDT)<\/a> has already created robot brain implants to treat the symptoms of Parkinson\u2019s, not much work has gone into using these robots to restore memories lost in traumatic injuries. DARPA is using funding from President Obama\u2019s BRAIN Initiative to develop implantable probes that could apply this same Medtronic science to memory loss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekosystem.com\/darpa-memory-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sam Maggs \u2014 Geekosystem Not content with only building gigantic horror-bots that will one day rule your city with a literal iron fist, DARPA has teamed up with the Pentagon to get a little smaller \u2014 implantable-brain-robot smaller. Hopefully, this new project will help treat memory loss in soldiers injured in combat (and not [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47234,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10128\/revisions\/47234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}