Event overview
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Goldsmiths Whitehead Lecture by Dr. Victor Becarra, Department of Cybernetics SSE, University of Reading.
Typically, mobile robots are controlled by means of an embedded computer. Recent EPSRC funded research has been carried out at the University of Reading in which dissociated biological neurons have been cultured, electrically interfaced, and employed to send commands to a mobile robot, and to receive stimulation derived from the sensors mounted at the robot. In this way, it can be argued that the interfaced neural culture is taking at least part of the role of the controller of the robot. The principal aim of this research project was, by using experiments such as the one described above, to investigate the computational and learning capacity of dissociated neuronal cultures. This seminar provides an overview of the problem area, introduces the breath of ongoing research, and states a number of open questions that may be answered by future research.
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| 9 Mar 2011 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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