Researchers develop neural implant that learns with the brain
June 25, 2008 | Source: KurzweilAI
University of Florida researchers have designed a brain-computer interface (BCI) that can adapt to a person’s behavior over time, helping complete a task more efficiently.
When they tested the BCI on rats (allowing the rat to move a robotic arm using thought alone), the system helped the rats become increasingly efficient at moving the robot arm, even when the movement goals became more difficult.
Until now, BCIs have been designed as one-way commands to a computer.