'Brain control cockroach' realized in China's university

[Aepsilons]

@Nihonjin1051 you a neuro-scientist? Or know anyone here who is?

The same principle used to control a cockroach has been used on other complex animals like dogs:

Remote control animal

A pigeon was one such success:

Chinese scientists control live pigeon flights via brain electrodes

And a mouse at MIT:

25 big ideas for 2012: Wireless mind control (Wired UK)

Wireless Mind Control Possible?: Science Fiction in the News

If you like that, you'll like this (albeit an interesting pathogen...)

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

'Brain control cockroach' realized in China's university
CRI, June 5, 2015

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By virtue of the Bluetooth communication technology, controller could form a wireless communication between the computer and the electronic backpack through intrusive electrical nerve stimulation technique to control a cockroach by human beings. [Photo: en.stju.edu.cn]

According to an article published on the official website of SJTU, Li Guangye, a postgraduate student of the university, successfully implanted live cockroaches with microelectrodes that stimulate certain nerves in the insects' antennae, allowing him to control the insect using a remote.

To make it, the controller needs to wear a portable wireless brain wave collecting device to ensure his/her directional intention be recognized by a computer. Then the computer will transfer the directional intention into controlling signal and send it to the electronic backpack receiver on the back of the cockroach; then according to the commanding signal of the controller, the electronic backpack will send specific pulse to the nerve of the cockroach's antennae which has been implanted with a microelectrode.

By virtue of the Bluetooth communication technology, the controller can form a wireless communication between the computer and the electronic backpack through intrusive electrical nerve stimulation techniques. This enables the controlling of the cockroach by human beings.

The research has won the second prize in 2015 IEEE RAS students' video contest and would be exhibited in the top-level meeting ICRA2015.

By virtue of the Bluetooth communication technology, controller could form a wireless communication between the computer and the electronic backpack through intrusive electrical nerve stimulation technique to control a cockroach by human beings. [Photo: en.stju.edu.cn]

Impressive!!!!

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

There's already a phone app that does this

 

[Jazzbot]

Now India is gonna jail Chinese cockroaches..

 

[TaiShang]

Now India is gonna jail Chinese cockroaches..

LOL. Better keep them off-thread.


SJTUers Realize “Brain Control Cockroach”
May 27, 2015 Author: Li Guangye

Science fiction film Avatar made up the scientific dream of biologically controlling allograft through "brain-brain interface" technique. A few days ago, this dream was realized by Laboratory for Bio Robotics and Biological Robots in Robotics Institute, School of mechanical and power engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Under the guidance of Zhang Dingguo, postgraduate student Li Guangye controlled a living cockroach with human mind, which has won the second prize in 2015 IEEE RAS students' video contest and would be exhibited in the top-level meeting ICRA2015.

The research establishes the functional "brain-brain interface" between human and cockroach, sending signal of human mind to the brain of cockroach and realizing the remote wireless control of cockroach's action. Controller wears a portable wireless brain wave collecting device and their mind will have a directional intention based on the visual feedback and the visual stimulation; the computer will decode the brain wave received and recognize the directional intention of the controller, then transfer it into controlling signal and send it to the electronic backpack receiver on the back of the cockroach; microelectrode has been planted into the antennae nerve in the head of the cockroach, which produces a controllable living "machine animal". By virtue of the Bluetooth communication technology, controller could form a wireless communication between the computer and the electronic backpack which will receive the commanding signal from the controller's mind and send specific electric pulse to the antennal nerve of the cockroach through intrusive electrical nerve stimulation technique so to realize the controlling of cockroach by human beings.

This research realized the controlling of living cockroach to walk in S-shaped path and Z-shaped path by human mind. They pointed out that this research extended the traditional brain-computer interface technology and tentatively attempted the avatar brain-brain communication. In the future, this could also be used for complex terrain reconnaissance, risk-elimination and so on, and also lay a solid foundation for the uprising of brainwork.

It is reported that the researcher will still upgrade the controlling mode to realize the controlling of several cockroaches by several controllers at the same time.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

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hmm...this screengrab from the roboroach video looks like the second pic above.

 

[TaiShang]

hmm...this screengrab from the roboroach video looks the second pic
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Yes. The same.

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• Cockroach is fitted with an electronic 'backpack' to stimulate its antennae

• Backpack's controlled by an electroencephalography (EEG) headset

• Brainwaves read by it used to direct the cockroach in a certain direction

• Innovation could be used for reconnaissance missions, inventors say

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Yes. The same.

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• Cockroach is fitted with an electronic 'backpack' to stimulate its antennae

• Backpack's controlled by an electroencephalography (EEG) headset

• Brainwaves read by it used to direct the cockroach in a certain direction

• Innovation could be used for reconnaissance missions, inventors say

but the roboroach video is from 2013 from some college in North Carolina.

You can buy the component in that pic on this website for $99.99
The Roboroach

"Are you a teacher or parent that wants to teach a student about advanced neurotechnologies? You are in luck! After 3 long years of R&D, the RoboRoach is now ready for its grand release! We are excited to announce the world's first commercially available cyborg! With our RoboRoach you can briefly wirelessly control the left/right movement of a cockroach by microstimulation of the antenna nerves. The RoboRoach is a great way to learn about neural microstimulation, learning, and electronics!"

 

[Transhumanist]

but the roboroach video is from 2013 from some college in North Carolina.

The OP never mentions where the micro-electronics on the roach come from so we can't make an accurate determination as to its origins. Also, the pic in the OP is too small to make out a language, but your screen-grabs clearly shows English words. I wont speculate, I don't have enough info, but this is far from being beyond China's capacity, even for school-aged persons.

In the end it hardly matters though, China has been successful with its programs in the past, such as with a pigeon:

Remote Controlled Pigeons - Hacked Gadgets – DIY Tech Blog

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Remote Controlled Pigeons - Hacked Gadgets – DIY Tech Blog

"n the United States, similar work on animals has been of interest to the military. For example, the pigeon news follows the equally amusing animal tale about the Pentagon’s attempts at creating remote controlled shark spies. Like the Chinese pigeon experiment, the sharks had brain implants used to control their movements."

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[Echo_419]

I second that. I had those in my dorm room and they are the smartest and toughest things, knowing how to feign death.



Spying would be great, really.



They can fly. I am not sure India has these, but, in Taiwan, we have them in abundance

The flying ones are scary as shit & fortunately India does not have them

Cockroaches can fly dont you know?

Ancient Chinese Art of Paper Folding

Yeah but most of them don't I have never seen a flying roach

 

[Transhumanist]

Yeah but most of them don't I have never seen a flying roach

The common American Cockroach can't fly, but some can:

 

[DaiViet]

Does not matter who else did it years ago. What matters is whether and when we did it..

And the point being? If this scientific then it is not really something new nor break through. Though some extremist Chinese will interpret this or as something to finish the west like their super computer they been boasting about to show superiority they are compare to other nations, typical chinese things.

 

[TaiShang]

And the point being? If this scientific then it is not really something new nor break through. Though some extremist Chinese will interpret this or as something to finish the west like their super computer they been boasting about to show superiority they are compare to other nations, typical chinese things.

You are right. It is really useless. You should never waste the time of your postdocs on such trivial matters. Do not repeat our mistake.

 

[jamahir]

these experiments are pointless, though i want to control human minds... umm, maybe bio-engineered microbes should be my focus of research.

 

[Hyperion]

Crap..... soon we will have 'Cockroach-Gate', where an ISI cockroach, using Chinese technology (of-course stolen as per Indian media) will infiltrate LoC, and will be conveniently caught by RAW........

Damm if he can make those roaches fly then West will be finished