Forecasts for the future of biotech: robotic-human interfaces? - Oct 06, 2009
by The Center for the Future of Museums News Department

This article in Public Science Review solicits forecasts from prominent robotic experts on coming breakthroughs. Predictions include:
  • Person to person telepathy enabled by nanotechnology
  • Robots that undergo cognitive and physical development similar to human toddlers
  • Robots controlled directly by the human brain
You can't accuse these guys of shying away from the front lines of testing their theories: one scientist interviewed linked his own nervous system over the internet to a robotic hand on another continent. The article predicts that "Such experiments that integrate man and machine will be increasingly commonplace as technologies evolve enabling physical enhancements to the human body."