Miami, FL (PRWEB) October 21, 2013

This weekend of October 19th - 20th 2013 marked the coming of the most anticipated event in the world of grappling, the ADCC World Championships - this year held in China. Miami-based BJJ athlete Roberto "Cyborg" Abreu was interviewed with us before his departure, knowing full well he'd be up against the absolute finest grapplers on the planet.

In their match at 99+kg, Buchecha ends up taking advantage of Cyborg's back with a quick takedown to an almost side control position. Coming back again in the absolute, Cyborg used superior guard passing - and an apparently better stamina to out-work Buchecha and land in side control multiple times, coming back for a decisive 10-0 victory after an earlier defeat.

Each year, the ADCC is a more refined competition - with veteran submission grapplers and grappling champions hailing from nearly every continent. Even just 10 years ago, the event featured some athletes with relatively little knowledge of submissions. Freestyle wrestling, judo, or other native wrestling styles would all compete for one prize - but 2013 is different. Each division is stacked with dangerous athletes, trained in the technical arts, and conditioned like professionals.

Cyborg's game has always been an aggressive one - and in his absolute division matches, we see this come out in spades. In his interview with us, Cyborg emphasizes how he is always aiming to create new positions when he is rolling - keeping his mind open to new possibilities, and getting used to reacting and responding in new and unique positions. This certainly came in handy against the unpredictable Buchecha.

See the Blow-by-Blow Match Breakdown between Cyborg and Buchecha at the Science of Skill Blog, and know that this history in the making. David versus Goliath - and David wins this time.

Great work to both athletes - showing tremendous heart throughout the event - an both bringing home major trophies. Download the entire interview with ADCC 2013 Absolute Champion Roberto "Cyborg" Abreu right here - and be sure to take notes. You'll be entering the mind of the man who can decisively be called the best grappler on EARTH this year (even if he was the underdog).

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Everybody calm down! Its going to be alright! The robotic cockroaches are here to save the day!

So maybe that line sounds a bit far-fetched now, but cyborg bugs really could help save lives someday. Researchers are experimenting with using remote-controlled roaches to explore disaster-stricken buildings. (ViaYouTube / Buzz60)

The current plan is to send cockroaches into hard-to-explore areas equipped with tiny electronic backpacks. The roaches spread out randomly, and then seek out and follow along walls on command. A map of the area can then be made based on how close each bug is to its neighbors. (ViaGigaOM)

Lead researcher Dr. Edgar Lobaton says the insect explorers could be useful mapping out collapsed buildings where GPS signals cant be used.

We focused on how to map areas where you have little or no precise information on where each biobot is. This would give first responders a good idea of the layout in a previously unmapped area.(ViaNorth Carolina State University)

Although this study presents a novel use for cockroaches, the concept of bio-bugs has been developed pretty thoroughly in recent science.

Popular Scienceeven has an instruction manual on how to build your very own biobug for just $50.

Theres even aKickstartercampaign peddling commercial cyborg roach kits for the classroom. The project aims to teach people about how brains work, in bugs and in people.

But all this rampant bugbot experimentation has raised a few moral concerns.

Bio-ethicists have voiced concerns that remotely controlled cockroaches might suffer permanent physical or mental damage. Also, the whole mind-control aspect is a little unsettling. (ViaBusiness Insider)

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When Backyard Brains began pushing its open source, remote-control cockroaches on Kickstarter, the widespread reaction was, Why? The project got a lot of attention, but the public was skeptical about the claim that kids were learningreal science while driving a living creature, and nobody seemed to be able to come up with any other useful application for the technology. Now, researchers from North Carolina State University have one: lets use a swarm of cyborg cockroaches to map dangerous or uncertain areas like collapsed buildings.

Just a few months ago, a team at the same university published research into using Kinect to steer cyborg cockroaches (what they call biobots) through a predefined path. The system tracks bugs on their way through the path, exciting receptors on the insects antennae to trick it into thinking it has reached a wall, which initiates a turn reflex. Its a fairly blunt form of control, but its cheap, reliable, and easy to install. Thats an interesting little experiment, but the whole advantage of an insect minion is its size and ability to get to places its controller cannot reach or ever see. Its impractical to get a Kinect-style camera in place, and if you had the knowledge to plot a path for the bugs, you wouldnt need the bugs in the first place. So, a collaborating team came up with a whole new style of biobot control: blind wall following.

After being released into the space of interest (say, a collapsed portion of a mall) the system directs the biobots in random directions, spreading out the swarm to cover as much area as possible. Once they are disbursed enough for the controllers liking, the system directs the swarm to move in a straight line forward in whatever direction each cockroach happens to be facing. They are only to stop moving forward when they hit a wall or some other impassable object. All roaches then track along the wall for a time, following its contours and giving operators some specific but out-of-context information about the space theyre exploring.

Remember that these are totally unknown environments where GPS and other tools are useless. Only by repeating the disburse-and-wall-follow pattern several times and using a complex algorithm to assemble the individual wall segments do we get anything like a sensible map. Its not the quickest system in the world, nor the most accurate, but it could turn a two-hour hunt through wreckage into a quick trip along a known path. A few cockroaches might die in the process, but insect are a lot more expendable than first responders. Trapped individuals might be able to press a button on the biobot to signal their presence, or the roaches themselves could be outfitted with appropriate sensors.

Unfortunately, even unsettlingly giant cockroaches cant carry very much weight, so the array of sensors available is limited. Still, the researchers want to outfit some units with detectors for chemicals and radiation. Cockroaches are famous for their presumed ability to survive a nuclear apocalypse, so why not a nuclear accident? While physicists try leveraging cosmic rays to peek inside of Fukushima, a swarm of cockroaches might end up being just as good. The biobots would have to come back out of the facility before they could report their findings, but thats not a huge imposition.

Right now, the team is testing the mapping software with robots, but biobot experts at the same school are already working on plugging cyborg cockroaches into the workflow. The video above is from their prior research.

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Swarms of remote-control cockroaches could be used to map hazardous environments for first responders

Living remote-control cockroaches are now a thing. They actually exist. Besides wowing people and sparking ethics debates, however, the cyborg insects may ultimately have some very worthwhile applications. A team led by North Carolina State University's Dr. Edgar Lobaton has brought one of those applications a step closer to reality, by developing software that would allow "swarms" of the cockroaches to map hazardous environments such as collapsed buildings.

The cockroach-guiding technology, which was also developed at NC State, involves fitting Madagascar hissing cockroaches with "backpacks" containing an inexpensive, lightweight, commercially-available chip, along with a wireless receiver and transmitter, and a microcontroller.

That microcontroller is wired into the cockroachs antennae and sensory organs known as the cerci. When commands are sent wirelessly by a remote human operator, the controller electrically stimulates one or more of the antennae and/or cerci, dictating the directional movements of the insects.

In the building exploration scenario, a swarm of sensor-wearing remote-control cockroaches or other insects known collectively as "biobots" would be released into a damaged structure. Their human operators would give them some time to disperse in a random pattern, and would then send a signal causing the biobots to proceed to the nearest wall and follow along its base.

Although the locations of individual insects wouldn't be known (GPS doesn't work indoors), the insects' sensors would send a radio signal to the operators whenever two or more of the biobots got close to one another. After several swarms had been released and performed the "wall following" behavior, an algorithm in the software would take all of the accumulated radio signal data and use it to create a rough map of the building's interior.

First responders would then have some idea of where to go and what to avoid upon entering the structure themselves.

The technology has already been tested using computer simulations, and testing with robots is now under way (perhaps not unlike the existing MAST system). A trial involving actual biobots is planned to take place soon.

Down the road, it is hoped that insects equipped with other types of sensors could also be used to map the location of radioactive or chemical threats.

Source: North Carolina State University

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When first responders arrive at an emergency situation such as a collapsed building, they enter blind, uncertain of what they will encounter or how to reach their targets.

North Carolina State University researchers think cyborgs are the answer. A paper they will present next month proposes using live insects like cockroaches to map the insides of difficult-to-reach locations. The insects would each be connected to a tiny electronics pack that allows people to control their movements, organizing them into a swarm that can map the location of walls more precisely than if the insects spread out randomly.

We focused on how to map areas where you have little or no precise information on where each biobot is, such as a collapsed building where you cant use GPS technology, senior paper authorEdgar Lobaton said in a release. One characteristic of biobots is that their movement can be somewhat random. Were exploiting that random movement to work in our favor.

Case 1 and 2 show natural swarm movement, where insects spread out evenly over time. Case 3 and 4 show the more precise wall mapping that electronic control allows. Photo courtesy of North Carolina State University.

The insects are first allowed to spread out randomly. Then their controller sends a signal to move until they hit a continuous surface like a wall, which they are then directed to follow. Commands are relayed via electrodes connected to the insects antennae. Location information taken in through sensors would be beamed back via radio signals. Software translates the signals into a map of the interior. Insects could be equipped with sensors to take in other types of data too, including the presence of chemical or radioactive threats.

Cyborg cockroaches recently raised ethical questions after an educational company revealed a kit that would allow even young students to create their own mind-controlled cockroaches. While a co-founder said the roaches feel little pain from the surgical procedure necessary to attach the electronics pack, the first publicly available, do-it-yourself cyborg kit unsurprisingly still has some trailblazing to do before people become comfortable with the concept.

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Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed software that allows them to map unknown environments such as collapsed buildings based on the movement of a swarm of insect cyborgs, or biobots.

We focused on how to map areas where you have little or no precise information on where each biobot is, such as a collapsed building where you cant use GPS technology, says Dr. Edgar Lobaton, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the research.

One characteristic of biobots is that their movement can be somewhat random, Lobaton says. Were exploiting that random movement to work in our favor.

Heres how the process would work in the field. A swarm of biobots, such as remotely controlled cockroaches, would be equipped with electronic sensors and released into a collapsed building or other hard-to-reach area. The biobots would initially be allowed to move about randomly. Because the biobots couldnt be tracked by GPS, their precise locations would be unknown. However, the sensors would signal researchers via radio waves whenever biobots got close to each other.

Once the swarm has had a chance to spread out, the researchers would send a signal commanding the biobots to keep moving until they find a wall or other unbroken surface and then continue moving along the wall. This is called wall following.

The researchers repeat this cycle of random movement and wall following several times, continually collecting data from the sensors whenever the biobots are near each other. The new software then uses an algorithm to translate the biobot sensor data into a rough map of the unknown environment.

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Hundreds of cyborg insects carrying radio transmitters like backpacks may one day scurry in to help emergency responders survey damaged or contaminated buildings after an earthquake, chemical spill or nuclear reactor accident.

The cyborg bugs could give responders "a quick picture of the environment," under conditions that may be dangerous or inaccessible to human rescuers, said Edgar Lobaton, assistant professor of electrical engineering at North Carolina State University.

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Artist's conceptualization of how a swarm of roaches could help map an area.

Roboticists have been making inroads into swarm technology in the last few decades, but groups of insects have been working together for millions of years. Roaches are natural explorers, and one species, the Madagascar hissing cockroach, is big enough to carry a decent-sized electronics lab on its back, Lobaton told NBC News. Compared to their fully robotic counterparts, insects are also naturally energy-efficient.

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(UPI) -- Researchers from North Carolina University have developed software that allows them to map unknown environments using cyborg bugs also known as biobots.

Researchers say the biobots can be deployed in collapsed buildings or other dangerous and hard to reach places, where they can give rescuers or other workers an advance map of the space.

We focused on how to map areas where you have little or no precise information on where each biobot is, such as a collapsed building where you cant use GPS technology, says senior author Dr. Edgar Lobaton, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State.

Each biobot moves randomly through a space until they find a wall or unbroken surface, at which point they are commanded to move along the wall, a process dubbed "wall following." When they come near another biobot or the end of their wall, they begin the process again.

One characteristic of biobots is that their movement can be somewhat random, Lobaton says. Were exploiting that random movement to work in our favor.

The software then takes the bots' sensor data and translates it into a rough map of the environment.

This would give first responders a good idea of the layout in a previously unmapped area, Lobaton says.

The biobots can also be used to determine the location of radioactive or chemical threats as long as they're equipped with the relevant sensors.

So far the software has been tested using computer simulations and is currently being tested with robots. Researchers plan to work with NC State researcher Dr. Alper Bozkurt to test the program with biobots.

The paper "Topological Mapping of Unknown Environments using an Unlocalized Robotic Swarm" will be presented at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems being held Nov. 3-8 in Tokyo, Japan.

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Hundreds of cyborg insects carrying radio transmitters like backpacks may one day scurry in to help emergency responders survey damaged or contaminated buildings after an earthquake, chemical spill or nuclear reactor accident.

The cyborg bugs could give responders "a quick picture of the environment," under conditions that may be dangerous or inaccessible to human rescuers, said Edgar Lobaton, assistant professor of electrical engineering at North Carolina State University.

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Artist's conceptualization of how a swarm of roaches could help map an area.

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Exciting news on various important science and tech beats today, as we learn that boffins have achieved breakthroughs in the allied fields of brain-chipped monkeys, robotics and cybernetics. To wit, they have been working out how to equip monkeys wielding robot arms with a sense of touch.

Rather than monkey, robot, or monkey-robot cyborg combination butler-Terminators, however, this research is aimed at making robot arms for human beings work better. This research is funded by our old friends at the US military bonkers-boffinry bureau DARPA, hoping to deliver better replacement limbs for American troops injured in the Wars on Stuff.

If you really want to create an arm that can actually be used dexterously without the enormous amount of concentration it takes without sensory feedback, you need to restore the somatosensory feedback," explains Sliman Bensmaia, Chicago uni prof.

Bansmaia and his colleagues set to work on this using experimental monkeys. A Chicago uni statement describes the research:

The researchers performed a series of experiments with rhesus macaques that were trained to respond to stimulation of the hand. In one setting, they were gently poked on the hand with a physical probe at varying levels of pressure. In a second setting, some of the animals had electrodes implanted into the area of the brain that responds to touch. These animals were given electrical pulses to simulate the sensation of touch, and their hands were hidden so they wouldnt see that they werent actually being touched.

Using data from the animals responses to each type of stimulus, the researchers were able to create a function, or equation, that described the requisite electrical pulse to go with each physical poke of the hand. Then, they repeated the experiments with a prosthetic hand that was wired to the brain implants. They touched the prosthetic hand with the physical probe, which in turn sent electrical signals to the brain.

It seems that, poke-wise, the monkeys didn't distinguish between fleshy and robotic hand stimulus. In Bensmaia's view, this means we're well on our way to artificial arms with a sense of touch.

This is the first time as far as I know where an animal or organism actually perceives a tactile stimulus through an artificial transducer, says the prof. Its an engineering milestone."

Human trials are anticipated within the next year, apparently, though we here on the Reg brainplug desk would note that electrodes inside the human skull seem unlikely to become a widespread solution. Human trials may well take place, but inserting electrodes for the purpose would be most unusual: normally such trials are done with people who have already had to have electrodes inserted for other reasons.

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