Friday, January 10, 2025

Light Hype and the Optical Revolution


Study suggests optogenetics can drive muscle contraction with greater control, less fatigue than electrical stimulation
May 2024, phys.org

Optogenetics meets neuroprosthetics - Instead of using electricity to stimulate muscles, they used light, and synthetic nerve fibers activate the muscles 

via MIT's Center for Bionics: Guillermo Herrera-Arcos et al, Closed-loop optogenetic neuromodulation enables high-fidelity fatigue-resistant muscle control, Science Robotics (2024). DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.adi8995.



New 'game-changing' discovery for light-driven artificial intelligence
Aug 2024, phys.org

photonic AI accelerator - an emerging technology where photons are used instead of electrons to perform AI computations.

via Universities of Oxford, Muenster, Heidelberg, and Ghent: Bowei Dong et al, Partial coherence enhances parallelized photonic computing, Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07590-y

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