{"id":90811,"date":"2019-05-16T18:05:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T01:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/using-human-wetware-to-control-robots"},"modified":"2019-05-16T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T01:05:54","slug":"using-human-wetware-to-control-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/using-human-wetware-to-control-robots","title":{"rendered":"Using Human \u201cWetware\u201d to Control Robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-human-wetware-to-control-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What happens when a man is merged with a computer or a robot? This is the question that Professor Kevin Warwick and his team at the department of Cybernetics, University of Reading in the UK have been trying to answer for a number of years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/magazine\" class=\"\">h+ Magazine Current Issue<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hplusmagazine.com\/articles\/ai\/here-come-neurobots\">Here Come The Neurobots<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hplusmagazine.com\/articles\/neuro\/artificial-hippocampus\">The Artificial Hippocampus<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hplusmagazine.com\/articles\/neuro\/epoc-neuroheadset\">EPOC Neuroheadset<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are many ways to look at this problem. There is the longer term prospect of freeing the mind from the limitations of the brain by uploading it in digital form, potentially onto a computer and\/or robotic substrate (see the h+ interview with Dr. Bruce Katz, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hplusmagazine.com\/articles\/neuro\/will-we-eventually-upload-our-minds\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will We Eventually Upload Our Minds?<\/a>). There is also a shorter term prospect at a much more limited scale \u2014 a robot controlled by human brain cells could soon be wandering around Professor Warwick\u2019s UK labs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/2009\/10\/16\/articlesroboticsusing-human-%E2%80%9Cwetware%E2%80%9D-control-robots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens when a man is merged with a computer or a robot? This is the question that Professor Kevin Warwick and his team at the department of Cybernetics, University of Reading in the UK have been trying to answer for a number of years. h+ Magazine Current Issue Here Come The Neurobots The Artificial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90811","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}