Merlin Robots Linked to Rat-brain Neurons in Pioneering Research- Wednesday 20 August, 2008
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Merlin Robotics technology is at the forefront of incredible new research by Reading University into the effects of conditions such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Neuroscientists at Reading have connected 300,000 rat neurons to a Merlin Miabot robot via Bluetooth. The neurons are being taught to steer the robot, and will soon be able to recognise their surroundings.
The eventual aim is to disrupt the robot's memories of these surroundings to recreate the effects of particular memory-related conditions. The scientists at Reading will be studying how neural tissues degrade and cope with this degradation.
Domestic service robots are a growing market- Tuesday 06 March, 2007
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The market for 'service robots' is starting to take wing. There were 1.9 million of the devices in use around the world in 2005, and demand is growing.
By Salamander Davoudi, Financial Times
March 5, 2007
Robot Arena - Intelligent Robots guided by 8 overhead vision systems. Robots based around the Miabot Pro platform.
