Chinese robot has a brain made from human cells

With brains cultured from human stem cells, Chinese scientists have developed a robot that can perform tasks such as clamping objects.

The robot has artificial brain resentment from human stem cells made by Tianjin University. Photo: SCMP

According to SCMP, Chinese scientists have developed a robot with an artificial brain cultured from human stem cells that can learn to multitask.

Specifically, according to researchers at Tianjin University and Southern University of Science and Technology, this technology combines brain tissue derived from human stem cells with a neural interface chip. With this artificial brain, scientists can teach robots to avoid obstacles and grasp objects.

According to Tianjin University, it is the world’s first intelligent complex information interaction system on a brain chip and has the potential to lead to the development of brain computing.

In other words, this research could lead to the development of hybrid intelligence between humans and robots. In the scientific paper, the team said they have developed a technique that uses low-intensity ultrasound that can help organs integrate and develop better in the brain.

The team found that when the grafted tissue was treated with low-intensity ultrasound, it improved the differentiation of organoid cells into neurons, thereby improving the networks they formed with the host brain.

It is a branch of the brain-computer interface, or BCI, that aims to help paralyzed patients control computers or electronic devices using only brain waves, without movement.

In theory, BCI is a system that decodes brain signals and converts them into commands for external technological devices. If the system is operational, patients with serious degenerative diseases such as complete polio can text or surf social media with their minds.

In recent times, BCI has attracted widespread attention thanks to Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip start-up. Neuralink’s first product, called Telepathy, helps brain transplant recipients move mice and play chess on a computer.