Monday, January 01, 2007

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT + LabVIEW + Real Neurons = ?


I have been indulging myself in designing a testbed to achieve the dream of real cybernetics. Although my current research projects have nothing to do with this crazy idea, I still can't help putting a memo about it.

In December 2006, LabVIEW released the toolkit for LEGO's new MINDSTORMS NXT that advances the applications of NXT upon cybernetics. LabVIEW is an excellent software that with proper DAQ hardware can be used as an interface to record the live signals from the realistic neuronal systems, and to stimulate or regulate it as a feedback.

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT is the most advanced toy robot kits that provides both the amateurs and even professional scientists easy access to the robotic technology. There have been enormous number of 3rd party software communities (ex. Microsoft Robotics Studio) that are developing programming interface for LEGO MINDSTORMS.

Combining with these technology, do you think the dream machine like RoboCop or Borg will be possibly achieved in the expectable future?

1 Comments:

At Tuesday, February 13, 2007 10:10:00 AM, Blogger York said...

Today I saw a similar idea that some guy want to give his goldfish back its freedom. Here is another version.

 

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