MetaFilter posts tagged with Cyborg and robot

One Giant Bite

jason's_planet — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 10:37:54 -0800

Today I am sharing a video of a woman with quadriplegia who has trained her brain to use a robotic arm to feed herself chocolate. Merry Christmas!

Welcome...welcome.

Smart Dalek — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:26:55 -0800

This is Zombotron. You can scavenge for items and kill the undead in this Flash game. Your less-advanced mechanical brethren may even shoot you on site, as they are only programmed to detect motion. Welcome to Zombotron.

monkey see, monkey do

Pants! — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:51:35 -0800

Scientists from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon have demonstrated that a monkey can control a robotic arm with its brain when food is used as a reward.

Science at work

cmicali — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:05:05 -0800

Touch-Sensitive Cyborg

TiggleTaggleTiger — Mon, 17 Sep 2001 19:37:52 -0800

Who else thinks we could use some of these now.
Seems a shame they're not quite ready to help with this disaster.
"...like crawling through earthquake rubble to search for victims..."