RE: EEG
Thank you.
30 year project at $500M Hmm. Sounds like a nice retirement on the job for Dr. Kawato :). AT 500M/year I can also develop some patience.
"using MRI scans to validate his guesses on how the brain performs similar tasks" unfortunately MRI is too crude of a tool to make a detailed study of our brain vs. motor functions.
I found the article very interesting.
Thanks again
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Cooper [mailto:richcooper@mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 5:29 PM
To: Dawidowicz, Edward RDECOM CERDEC C2D; 'Jack Ring';
standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org; cg@cs.uah.edu
Subject: Re: EEG
There is an article in Technology Review's web site
on Mitsuo Kawato's project to build a robot as a way
of learning how the brain functions. It includes three
pages of descriptive text and a photo gallery of the
robot he is using.
He also seems to be using MRI scans to validate his
guesses on how the brain performs similar tasks.
The article is at
http://www.techreview.com/articles/05/01/issue/huang0105.asp
Kawato is lobbying for a 30 year project at $500M
per year to build a robot with the capabilities of a
five year old child. Sounds a bit unfundable, but the
Japanese seem to have the patience for these very
large long term projects, so who knows.
Rich