Early Bionics, Artificial Neurons and CYBORGs

This page will contain a selection of early Bionics including CYBORG technologies and Neural computing, and dates showing the creation or announcement of these and related technologies.

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History of CYBORGs and Enabling Technologies
 1926 – Der Mensch als Industriepalast (Man as Industrial Palace) – Fritz Kahn

 Lindenberg-Carrell Perfusion Pump

 Two-headed Dog – Demikhov

 Severed Dog's head and revival –  Bryukhonenko

 1960 – Clynes & Kline CYBORG

 

Early Bionic and Artificial Neuron machines

 1948 – ELMER – a new species of animal – M. speculatrix

 NERISSA – Grey Walter

 1950-  J.J. Coupling (John Pierce) 

1951- "SNARC" – Marvin Minsky / Dean Edmonds 

 1955-59 – Raymond Auger's Painting Machine inc Artificial Nerves

 1958- Uttley / Andrew Conditional Probability Computer with trolley

 1962- MELPAR Bionic Maze using ARTRONs

 1957 – Perceptron – Frank Rosenblatt

1960c – Lernmatrix – Karl Steinbuch

 196x – ADALINE / MADALINE – Bernard Widrow (Stanford)

 196x – MINOS I,II & III

1963 – Cynthia – Lesti (Andromeda)

1962 – Conflex 1 – Dr. Malcolm Uffelman (Scope)

196x – SOCRATES

 1962 – MIND – Ford

 19xx – Electronic Frog's Eye – RCA

 1961 Cybertron – Raytheon

 196x – Sceptron – Sperry

 196x – Artificial Neuron – Bell Labs

 1961 – Numa-Rete – Weston / Foerster

1963 – Artificial Neuron – Chubbuck / Bittner

 1971 – SOPHIA

 

Early Brain Control and Animal Control Technologies