#NeuroTech

[fatihulusoy]

Greetings folks! Did somebody say fungus bots? its time to spore some trouble i guess :) ok it wasnt funny i get it.. Anyways meet with new fungus based biohybrid bot..

before i start to explain how its works lets take a look at its backstory shall we?

The idea was almost age old actually, experimentation of soft body robotics and bio robotics and today its reshape as we see biohybrid robotics with the search for more sustainable, self-healing, and biodegradable materials. Traditional robots are often made from synthetic materials and metals, which can be rigid, non-biodegradable, and challenging to repair. The researchers at Cornell University sought to overcome these limitations by integrating biological elements into robotic systems.

The team turned to mycelium, the root-like structure of fungi, which has the unique ability to grow, self-repair, and biodegrade. Mycelium is also known for its strength and flexibility, making it an ideal candidate for use in soft robotics. By embedding mycelium within a network of sensors and actuators, the researchers created a biohybrid bot capable of sensing its environment and responding to stimuli, all while being environmentally friendly.

This fungus bot represents a significant step towards more sustainable robotics, demonstrating how living organisms can be harnessed to create innovative and eco-friendly technologies. The research also opens up possibilities for robots that can grow, adapt, and repair themselves in ways that conventional robots cannot, potentially revolutionizing fields such as environmental monitoring, agriculture, and even healthcare.

there is four actual elements that actually runs this bot besides of shell.

Fungus's Mycelium

Fungus's slug

UV light or UV array in the sun light

Electricity (it seperates as fungus related electrical pulse and electricity waves from censors)

firstly lets start with fungus mycelium: Mycelia are the underground vegetative part of mushrooms, and they have a number of advantages. They can grow in harsh conditions. They also have the ability to sense chemical and biological signals and respond to multiple inputs. so basically its neural system that transfers certain commands of activities between root and fungus itself

its slug is basically fungus's cell system or actual biohybrid organism it this case

once mycelium gets affected by UV lights it generates small electricity pulses to slug system and when slugs gets electrocuted by these pulses it acts like a muscle basically and it causes the slug to move or contract its muscles to activate.

and once you figure out how you gonna shape its muscle system and house them carefully you will have a "biohybrid robot" as their terms

the reason im taking this now is it reminded me "Fungus Baby Experiments" which is an inside name for series of projects that been continued for a while after corona until now.. Simply, the goal was to create or adapt an organism to thrive in different environments and make sure these environments livable by humans in the future by manipulating with artificial and external factors. Google it :)

anyways.. thats all from me this time..

until next time..

Sources:

for fungus baby experiments:

[kamari2038]

Hello and bye again, but this was cool...

[healthdivine]

🧠 Monitor the mind in real-time! Neurology monitoring tools are changing how we understand the brain. 🧠📉

[astermedicalimaging]

Advances In Neuroradiology

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is well-established in neuroimaging due to its relative abundance, non-invasive, and free from ionising radiation ability. MRI can detect both brain perfusion and metabolic activity and hence plays a vital role in neuro imaging. It can help in identifying both congenital and degenerative disease processes in the brain. The advances in neuroradiology are constantly evolving from sequence modifications and inventions to data analysis. It can enable various neuro-imaging technologies such as anatomical images and functional and quantitative data for diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), spectroscopy, blood oxygenation level-dependent functional MRI, and T1/T2 mapping dynamic contrast-enhanced imaging.

A few recent trends in medical imaging have been elaborated on here.

Volumetric MRI

T1-weighted MR imaging has increased sensitivity to assess epileptogenic lesions. The Hallmark of Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is hippocampal volume loss, signal changes ad loss of internal architecture. There may be artificial smoothing during the initial processing of 3T MRI, which can be more accurately assessed by increasing the spatial resolution to 7T imaging. [1] Volumetric MRI in Huntington’s disease is characterised by a reduction in regional brain volume that correlates to disease characteristics. Even before the onset of motor symptoms volume loss is seen in the caudate and putamen, whereas loss in cortical regions is more widespread and may be seen after clinical motor diagnosis.

Diffusion-weighted imaging

Diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) deploys a magnetic field that sensitises MRI signals to characterise cell sizes, density, and morphology. The diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) signal model is sensitive to macro and microstructural tissue. The diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) signal model provides more sensitive and accurate information about tissue microstructure when compared to DTI. The Composite hindered and restricted model of diffusion (CHARMED) is a multi-compartment model that is helpful to know the axonal density and extra-axonal diffusion tensor. The orientation dispersion index, neurite density index, and isotropic volume fraction can be known by neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI). Microstructural measures and more sensitive than DTI indices as they provide additional information and more accurate and powerful biomarkers of tissue disease burden in multiple sclerosis. NODDI metrics are found to be associated with cognition in Alzheimer disease in the early stages. DKI can enable distinguishing gliomas from other intra-axial brain tumors. It can differentiate between high and low-grade gliomas with a sensitivity of 0.87. Read more here about Neuro Radiology

[vortexofadigitalkind]

He sat in the silence. The system blinked. One word appeared: Reboot? Part 5 of The Burnout Protocol is live. Step into the signal. https://vortexofadigitalkind.com/the-burnout-protocol-part-5-reboot

[newstodays1]

Nanotechnology in Neurology: Pioneering Advances in Brain and Nerve Care

Introduction Nanotechnology is revolutionizing neurology, offering groundbreaking solutions for brain diseases, nerve damage, and neurological disorders. By operating at the molecular level, nanotech enables precise diagnostics, targeted drug delivery, and neural regeneration, transforming how we treat conditions like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, stroke, and spinal cord injuries. This blog…

[fatihulusoy]

Greetings folks! when you talk about tech so much its an inescapable fact that you're gonna came across into dystopic and unethical things eventually.. But what is it? a human genome experiment? or a implant that suppresses the mind and fills it with false memories.. which one is sounds more far fetch? meet Project COGNIFY!

a prison system that can suppresses the perpetrator's mind and fills it with victım's and their family's horror, grief and hatred for the criminal with ai generated memories!

Look, i know how does it sounds but this thing is real been researched, built and proposed already.. and about to implement on many prisons around the globe which who agrees to this "alternative" method..

in theory. our neural system accepts reality by its senses around by organs we have like eyes, nose, skin, ears, tongue etc. this project is twists our envoirmental vision by VR, excessive headphones and short term electrical zaps.

prisoners would be subjected to artificial memories in a virtual environment. The system creates customized AI-generated content that’s converted to visual information and delivered to the prisoner’s brain as well as the parts of their DNA and RNA linked to memory formation to establish a long term memory pattern -engadget

OK!! I know thats way too much to handle but before that how did we get here in the first place?

cognify project was started by an yemenian biologist and scientist Hashem Al-Ghaili.. before this stage this project was used for psychedelic tests like testing base cognitive functions and such by giving patients to play specifically crafted games. for most of the cases this idea was a success at the time most of the patients show improvement getting better at controlling their muscle system and most of the hospitals around the globe was adopted this methods at the time. around 2016 to 2023 they announced series of progress reports about the results and its effects (this separation is kinda necessary in this situation)

at first psychedelic research were only in health industry and getting more companize this idea before covid but after covid and home office era some companies were started to find more progressive ways to improve their workhaul and needless to say these guys offered a "solution!"

first: gamify the interview and casting process with more interactive hr system and give the candidate more *special* feeling

second: surveillance the behaviors of the person against a problem and acts against the both coworkers and menagers through the live meetings

third: reward the smarter and progressive ones with more break time and more interactive and interesting contents in online world which encourages people more brainstorming to creating more generative ideas and also more payroll! And the rest.. just, get rid of them!

four: repeat the process!

in the end et voila! you have a company full of superminds! i mean.. it is effective but..

While the technology is effective, it raises significant ethical questions. Is it humane to manipulate memories? What are the long-term psychological effects? The potential for abuse and the moral implications of artificially altering a person's mind are profound. Safeguards and ethical guidelines are crucial to ensure the technology is used responsibly.

now lets take a step back and return to our prison system for a moment shall we?

with this knowledge cognify company did menage to learn how to use envoirmental elements to manipulate minds and desicions..

at first stage its been proposed for 10+ year sentenced prisoners as "do you want to fullfill your whole of your sentence in 10 minutes?"

who would'nt right? :)

if prisoner or tester would agrees they put the headset and the glasses and connect bunch of electrodes onto head and upper arm area with that way while their ai model is generates event based videostream starts to play while the tester continues to watch these videos minor electroshocks starts to given to different parts of neural system and by that way mind can be manipulated as these external video stream slowly becomes recognising as actual memories

And finally looking ahead, Project COGNIFY might evolve to address other applications beyond the prison system. Potential future developments could include therapeutic uses for trauma victims or advanced cognitive training programs. However, the ethical landscape must be navigated carefully to prevent misuse.

SOURCES:

https://cms.jvrafricagroup.co.za/assets/documents/products/cognify/case-study--cognify--risk-prediction.PDF

[seeingwithsound]

A congenitally blind user of The vOICe for Android running on Vuzix M400 smart glasses reported today:

``I was on my sky walk the other day and as I was walking around, I realized that I could see large structures which had some kind of separations. I was reasonably certain the structures were buildings due to prior visual experience.

I checked with sighted assistance and indeed I was looking at the buildings around the sky walk. I could see the gaps between individual floors which was fun.''

March 20, 2025.

No way that he could have done this with a retinal implant (he is blind from ROP, retinopathy of prematurity) or with a brain implant such as Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight.

Vuzix M400 smart glasses https://www.vuzix.com/products/m400-smart-glasses The vOICe for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vOICe.vOICe

[mansijadav]

Mind-Control Tech

Researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a brain-computer interface (BCI) that enabled a paralyzed man to control a robotic arm using only his thoughts. By imagining movements, he could grasp and move objects, including picking up a cup and using a water dispenser. The breakthrough lies in an adaptive AI model that adjusts to daily shifts in brain activity, allowing consistent control over seven months—the longest ever for such a device. After training with a virtual arm, the participant quickly transferred his skills to a real robotic limb. This AI-human learning blend marks a major step toward restoring autonomy for people with paralysis.

website: https://popularscientist.com/

[johniac]

Attention-Worthy Links for December 22nd, 2024

[fraoula1]

𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐝?!

Brain-computer interfaces are here—and they let you control technology with just your thoughts. Neuralink is one name, but others like Fraoula are also pushing DeepTech boundaries.

Watch https://youtube.com/shorts/nb9EzJdKCGQ?feature=share

Would you implant a chip that lets you control tech with your mind? Comment below.

[abimedltd]

Abimed nerve stimulator is a therapeutic device with a high-resolution LCD screen. Unit features an adjustable intensity of 50 levels, an operational temperature of 5 to 40 °C, self-timing of 5 to 15 minutes, and a humidity of 15% to 90%. It has a large color LCD screen, 1-channel pulse therapy, is wireless and rechargeable, and promotes blood circulation.

[chiefhuntingbear-is-a-shaman]

Let's suppose the number of people on Earth is soon reduced to 500- million and you're 18- years old. Would you rather be one of the 9- billion who die or a survivor living by yourself without any human contact in a small house in a 15- minute city controlled by a brain implant so you can be exploited as a slave in front of a computer screen 20- hours a day not allowed to relax, go into a trance, sleep, dream, become an entrepreneur, meet people, drive a sports car, make love, dine at fine restaurants, live in mansions, have a family, travel, go to symphonies, speak your mind, and surf, required to produce wealth you cannot benefit from for whichever descendant of the Egyptian Pharaohs owns you ? How about if you're 50- years old, already a smashing success and all of your assets are seized ?