Chinese researchers made a big step in the development work of the BCI (Brain-Computer Interface). That step is the monkey brain synchronized with computers. And that thing makes the full-capable BCI systems possible.
The BCI or EEG-controlled interface is not a new idea. Novelist Graig Thomas introduced that system in his SciFi novel Firefox in 1977. In that book, the Soviet super-secret jet fighter used brain- or EEG-controlled weapon systems. The system used the modified electric shock system that communicated with the cortex. That was in the pilot's helmet. During that time. The BCI was one of the sci-fi-tales. But today, those systems are a reality.
But things like machine learning and AI are making it possible to make those systems in real life. AI and machine learning are needed to separate certain EEG curves and then connect those curves with certain actions. The system must also filter white noise or meaningless thoughts away from the information that the system sends to the brain.
The original development idea for the BCI system was to help ALS patients to communicate. The system allowed to use computers without touching them. Originally the system planned to use implanted microchips but today also hats with receiving electrodes are under development. The BCI control allows using of things like external bodies like service robots or HUCC-type robot skeleton that allows ALS patients to walk.
But today also, military and civil authorities are interested in that system. It can use to control robots in extremely hard conditions. If the robot is connected to this system can use act as a gardener, but the same external body can use by medical doctors. The robot's body is the same all the time. But the user determines the robot's skills.
Researchers sometimes created an idea that they can use implanted microchips to control things like dogs and wolves. The BCI system decodes the brain signals and turns the animal into the robot that sends every sense to the controllers.
The BCI can cooperate with machine learning. The thing is that the robot group or drone swarms can operate independently. But when they face too complicated a problem. Those systems can ask for human help. And then they store that solution in their memories for similar situations.
The BCI is like a mobile telephone. Who would believe in the 1970s that someday we have computers in our pockets? Who would believe those systems' capacity?
Who would believe that in the 1970s that someday we have in our pocket the system that gives us access to information storage that is larger than any library in the world? Who would believe that we are looking at videos by using that system? The BCI can connect with the mobile telephone. And thing makes it the most multi-use system in the world.
In the 1970's the BCI was fantasy.
But today, the BCI is seriously developing in public and secret laboratories. That thing allows users to control robots by using the EEG. And that thing turns the robot into an external body for that system's user. The BCI system's user must not use hands or other limbs to control things like aircraft.
That makes the aircraft capable to make higher G-turnings. The BCI can interconnect manned fighters with things like wingman drones that can have kamikaze missions like the ability to attack things like air-defense radars.
The BAE aircraft corporation planning to install the BCI on the future Tempest II jet fighter. And there are also plans to control drone swarms by using augmented reality and BCI. Drone swarms of miniature drones also can use in surgical operations. But those systems are still the most effective weapons on the battlefield.
https://interestingengineering.com/science/china-syncs-monkey-brain-with-a-computer
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