Scientists announced the invention of the first functional electronic skin
yesterday, a malleable field of pressure sensitive circuits thin enough
to “wrap around irregular surfaces”. It seems like an announcement like
this comes almost every few days. So, can we make a whole person yet?
I mean, we have everything from brain-controlled robot arms to bionic eye implants to robot hearts, stinky cyber armpits to a robot jellyfish. And then of course, there’s this guy. Way back in 2005 scientists were claiming it’d be possible to download your brain onto a computer by 2050, and it looks like the opposite, uploading information
directly to that gooey mass of tapioca in your head, is just about
there. (As long as the robot doing the surgery doesn’t get tense and
have a swordfight in your cranium.)
For the rest of the story: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/building-whole-robot-person?src=rss
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