From black technology to super engineering

London.

Oxford University School of Medicine, Brain Science Research Centre.

Professor Adams, who is 43 years old this year, sat in front of the computer and watched a briefing from his colleagues in the far east.

His brow was furrowed, his eyes filled with disbelief and deep doubt, which turned into a slight annoyance, but eventually, he calmed down and opened his email client.

He intended to ask his partner, Don Ezio, when exactly the system for motor anastomoses would be ready.

After the email was sent, he began to wait. After waiting for five minutes, he checked the time again. Unable to confirm whether the other party was in front of or behind the computer, he thought for a while and picked up the phone directly.

After the phone rang once, he picked it up: "Man, right now, I'm almost at your door."

Professor Adams was taken aback for a moment, then stood up and walked towards the coffee machine.

Not long after, the office door opened.

...

"Did you see the announcement from your colleagues?" Professor Adams handed his friend a cup of coffee, and then sat down in front of him, looking at him with burning eyes.

"I see - put less sugar." Professor Ezio took a sip of coffee, put down the cup, and exhaled lightly: "The joint brain science center of Huaxi and Provincial Jiaotong University is indeed progressing a bit fast."

"I remember that they have only been established for half a year?" Professor Adams pointed to his computer monitor. The briefing on it made it very clear-"It has been established for half a year and a good harvest has been achieved."

"Yes, but it has been established for half a year does not mean that it has no ability."

Professor Adams showed some disbelief.

How can there be so many shortcuts in brain research? What's more, although that hospital is quite famous, it is also clinical and dental. In front of people like myself, brain science is purely at the student level.

Seeing his old friend's expression, Professor Ezio knew that this old man might have some misunderstandings about the "mysterious eastern power".

But he thought about it again, if he hadn't met Ye Ming as a peer reviewer at that time, and then maintained a fairly frank and uninterrupted communication, I am afraid that he would also think that this progress came too fast and too "magic" up.

——It took them less than ten days from announcing the anastomosis of the motor nerves in mice to announcing that a blind dog could see again!

This pace of progress is terrifying!

For ordinary people, especially those who have paid attention to new materials and neuroscience in the past six months, they may think that this is nothing - because under the publicity of bad media, this GTRGD material has become a universal Neuromaterials seem to be able to bring the whole world into cyberpunk in the next second.

But in the industry, it is known that there are still too many problems to be solved in order to truly complete the application-for example, signal conversion is a big problem that takes time to accumulate.

For countless years before, people just used various methods to collect myoelectric signals and EEG signals, and then performed statistical analysis. With the continuous improvement of experimental equipment - such as electrodes, such as signal analysis, such as various algorithms ——With the impetus of the scientific community, it is possible to realize a bionic arm that is not flexible at all.

For vision, it only realizes the expression of mosaic-like light signals.

In addition to signal conversion, there are material and surgical difficulties.

In short, brain science was a thorny road that would take the scientific community for decades or even hundreds of years before half a year ago.

But now, the Brain Science Center opposite... it's like sitting on a bulldozer, no matter what is in front of it, just rush and play.

All the thorns were instantly crushed by them.

Work hard to create miracles - this is a description given to himself by the inventor of the GTRGD material on the opposite side.

Ezio found it particularly suitable.

"Dude, don't worry. Their visual nerve progress is just a tentative experiment. The main task at present is still to collect feedback signals. Well, there is only preliminary progress."

"What?" Professor Adams became even more anxious when he heard it: "Are they going to make a biochemical man?"

"...Tell me not to worry." Ezio took out a USB flash drive as he spoke, "This is the direct decoding of the motor nerve signal of the mouse I want. With it..."

Professor Adams was taken aback, then stood up and stared at the flash drive in Ezio's hand, "Where did it come from? Are you sure?"

"Of course I got it through the back door." Professor Ezio said triumphantly, "My system is correct and the materials are correct, but this is missing. Then, don't look at me like that, and don't ask me too much. Much—I may not have time for the next month, so leave me alone."

Professor Adams grabbed the USB flash drive: "What are you going to do?"

"I want to complete a test of a new material based on the driver chip."

Speaking of which, Ezio stood up and stared at his old friend before turning around: "Dude, let's go over there after I finish my work. The two of us are separated, so we can discuss academic issues."

...

Joint Brain Science Center.

The uncommon Professor Tang Zhigao and others walked into the meeting room while chatting with a doctor in a white coat.

After several professors took their seats easily, Ye Ming and Mo Gu sat at the back.

"Dean Qi." Professor Tang looked at the leader of the medical school, with a smile on his mouth: "It's just a small achievement now. When the integrated hybrid chip comes out, it will be a big era that will change the entire brain science world."

"That's right!" Dean Qi nodded with a smile, and looked away from Mo Gu and Ye Ming: "I don't understand chip design, but I can probably think of its operating principle-let's take the visual nerve as an example, now we let The experimental dog has a sense of vision, but I think it is a very large and cumbersome collection of systems, can the integrated chip be completely integrated into the artificial eyeball?"

"It's possible in theory." Professor Tang smiled, then looked at Ye Ming: "Ye Ming, tell me."

"Okay." Ye Ming nodded, looked at Dean Qi, and after thinking for a moment, said: "Dean Qi, although in theory, the artificial eyeball can complete the control of the eye muscles through nerve signal connection - of course, the integration also No problem, nothing more than camera + battery + chip.”

Dean Qi nodded.

"But there is a problem with this design, that is, the eyes have to be pulled out to charge every day."

Ye Ming smiled slightly: "This is a bit too scary."

Dean Qi was taken aback, then laughed out loud.

Everyone also laughed.

Indeed, although it is a bit difficult to install a sci-fi "simulated artificial eye", it is not impossible. After all, no matter whether it is a camera, a chip, or a battery, it can be highly integrated.

But the camera, it consumes power!

In addition, converting the camera signal also requires considerable power consumption and computing power.

"So, under the existing conditions, our plan is to use head-mounted glasses to collect and integrate the light field to complete the integration of natural light. Of course, we can also virtualize the light - so that Put the computing function externally instead of integrating it in a hybrid chip."

"The advantage of this is that the artificial eye can get a long battery life."

Ye Ming smiled as he spoke.

"Moreover, we can also complete visual restoration and holographic simulation at the same time!"