Robots with Biological Brains: Issues and Consequences
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Date: 2012-12-11

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Speaker: Kevin Warwick, University of Reading 

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In this talk a look is taken at the relatively new area of culturing neural tissue and embodying it in a mobile robot platform—essentially giving a robot a biological brain. Present technology and practice is discussed. New trends and the potential effects of and in this area are also indicated. This has a potential major impact with regard to society and ethical issues and hence some initial observations are made. Some initial issues are also considered with regard to the potential consciousness of such a brain.

0:00  Robots with Biological Brains -- Issues & Consequences
0:39  Growing Brains for Robots
2:23  Why?
4:55  Concept
6:52  Robot with a Biological Brain
10:53  Approach
12:03  Overview
13:09  The robot - 1
15:40  The robot - 2
17:50  Observations
21:36  Philosophy
22:29  Future?
24:47  Biological AI - Ongoing
27:05  Dreaming
27:36  Donate your neurons