Bipedal robotics: A nanotechnology and neurotechnology approach

Bipedal robotics is a field referred to chiefly developing humanoids and other biologically inspire two legged robots, due to the complex mechanisms and decision making processes involved in physical activities of human beings we require highly reliable sensor modules and high precision high frequency processor platforms for near to real time response of the bipedal robots (bipeds). Since in human beings the entire decision making process and control signal triggering actions are taken care chiefly by Brain neurons, their unmatched parallelism is far from reality to be realized by conventional processors. The novel approach to such a problem would be using brain neurons itself for processing of data and making decisions. The recent lab results published by Johanna Varner of MIT have shown that occipital and cortical neurons can be cultured efficiently in the lab on a silicon substrate. This paper discusses the technique of using lab cultured (in vivo) occipital and cortical neurons for image processing and motor control.