{"id":129605,"date":"2021-10-27T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/teaching-robots-to-think-like-us-brain-cells-electrical-impulses-steer-robot-though-maze"},"modified":"2021-10-27T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:22:17","slug":"teaching-robots-to-think-like-us-brain-cells-electrical-impulses-steer-robot-though-maze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/teaching-robots-to-think-like-us-brain-cells-electrical-impulses-steer-robot-though-maze","title":{"rendered":"Teaching robots to think like us: Brain cells, electrical impulses steer robot though maze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/teaching-robots-to-think-like-us-brain-cells-electrical-impulses-steer-robot-though-maze.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can intelligence be taught to robots? Advances in physical reservoir computing, a technology that makes sense of brain signals, could contribute to creating artificial intelligence machines that think like us.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Applied Physics Letters<\/i>, researchers from the University of Tokyo outline how a robot could be taught to navigate through a maze by electrically stimulating a culture of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/nerve+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nerve cells<\/a> connected to the machine.<\/p>\n<p>These nerve cells, or neurons, were grown from living cells and acted as the physical reservoir for the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/computer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer<\/a> to construct coherent signals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can intelligence be taught to robots? Advances in physical reservoir computing, a technology that makes sense of brain signals, could contribute to creating artificial intelligence machines that think like us. In Applied Physics Letters, researchers from the University of Tokyo outline how a robot could be taught to navigate through a maze by electrically stimulating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129605","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}