DARPA Tries to Create the Cyborg

Ahh, computers keep getting faster and smarter, but thank goodness they still don't match up to the power of the human brain -- or I'd be out of work.

But what if someone could figure out how to come up with the direct brain-machine interface that harnesses the power of that organ to tools such as robot limbs?

That was the theme of a 2004 project the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency worked on in 2004, the details of which were released on Wednesday by the Defense Department's FOIA website.

DARPA, based on this report, managed to harness the power of a rat's brain to a machine interface, but so far has not managed to turn the robo-rat into a robo-writer. For a while, at least, I have job security.