London.

Oxford Faculty School, Centre for Brain Science Research.

Professor Adams, 43, sits in front of his computer and watches a public briefing from his colleagues from the Far East.

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

He was going to ask his partner, Mister Ezio, when the system for motor anastomosis would be ready.

After the email was sent, he began to wait, and after waiting for five minutes, he glanced at the time again, and couldn't be sure that the other party was in front of or behind the computer, so he thought about it and picked up the phone directly.

The phone rang and then answered: "Man, right now, I'm almost at your door." ”

Professor Adams was stunned for a moment, then stood up and walked to the coffee machine.

In a few moments, the office door opened.

……

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

"See—there's one less piece of candy." Professor Ezio took a sip of his coffee and put down his cup, exhaling softly, "The progress of the Joint Brain Science Center between West China and the Provincial Government is indeed a bit fast. ”

"I remember they've only been around for half a year, right?" Professor Adams pointed to his computer monitor, and the brief was clear – "a bumper harvest in six months."

"Yes, but half a year does not mean that there is no ability."

Professor Adams looked a little disbelieving.

How can there be so many shortcuts in cranial nerve research? What's more, although the hospital is still famous, it is also clinical and dental, and brain science is purely at the level of students in front of their own people.

Seeing his old friend's expression, Professor Ezio knew that the fellow might have a misconception of the "mysterious forces of the East".

However, he thought about it, 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 quickly and was too "magical".

- It took less than ten days for them to announce the completion of the motor nerve anastomosis of the mouse to the announcement of the realization of the sight of a blind dog!

This rate of progress is terrifying!

For ordinary people, especially ordinary people who have paid attention to new materials and neuroscience in the past six months, they may think that this is nothing-because under the propaganda of bad media, this GTRGD material has become a universal neural material, as if the world can enter cyberpunk in the next second.

But in the industry, we know that there are still too many problems to solve before we can actually use them - for example, signal conversion is a big problem that takes time to accumulate.

For countless years, the scientific community has been able to achieve a completely inflexible arm driven by the continuous advancement of experimental equipment, such as electrodes, signal analysis, and various algorithms.

For vision, only the mosaic-like light signal expression is realized.

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

In short, brain science was a thorny road that would have allowed the scientific community to go through decades or even hundreds of years before half a year.

But now, the brain science center across the street...... It's as if you're on a bulldozer, and whatever is in front of it, you just rush to play with it.

All the thorns were crushed by them in an instant.

Miracles - this is a description given to himself by the inventor of the GTRGD material opposite.

Ezio felt that it was a good fit.

"Man, don't worry, their optic nerve progress this time is just a tentative experiment, and 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 this: "Are they going to do cyborgs?" ”

“…… Having said that, don't worry. As he spoke, Ezio pulled out a USB drive, "This is the direct decoding of the motor nerve signals of the mice I wanted, with it......"

Professor Adams was stunned, then stood up and stared at the USB drive in Ezio's hand, "Where did it come from?" Is it accurate? ”

"Of course, I got it through the back door." Professor Ezio triumphed: "My system is right, and my materials are not wrong, it's just missing this." Then, don't look at me like that, and don't ask me too much – I probably won't have time for the next month, so don't bother me. ”

Professor Adams snatched the USB drive: "What are you going to do?" ”

"I'm going to complete a new material test on the basis of the driver chip."

Ezio stood up and stared at his old friend before turning around, "Man, when I'm done, let's go over there, we're two isolated and can discuss academic issues." ”

……

United Brain Science Center.

Professor Tang Zhigao and others, who are not usually seen, accompanied a doctor in a white coat to chat and walk into the conference room.

As several professors sat down easily, Ye Ming and Mo Gu sat at the back.

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

"That's right!" Dean Qi smiled and nodded, and his gaze was withdrawn from Mo Gu and Ye Ming: "I don't understand the chip design, but I can probably think of the operating principle - let's take the optic nerve as an example, now we let the experimental dog have a perception of vision, but I think it is a very large and cumbersome collection of systems, can the integrated chip completely integrate it into the artificial eyeball?" ”

"Theoretically, yes." Professor Tang smiled, and then looked at Ye Ming: "Ye Ming, you come." ”

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

Dean Qi nodded.

"But there is a problem with this design, which is that you have to pick out your eyes every day to recharge."

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

Dean Qi was stunned, and then laughed.

Everyone laughed.

Indeed, if you install a sci-fi "fake eye", although it is a little difficult, it is not impossible, after all, whether it is a camera, a chip, or a battery, it can be highly integrated.

But the camera, it consumes power!

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

"So, under the existing conditions, our intention is to use head-mounted glasses to integrate natural light by collecting and integrating the light field and integrating the calculations, and of course, to virtualize the light – so that the computing functions can be put externally, rather than integrated in a hybrid chip."

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

Ye Ming smiled as he spoke.

"And we're able to do both visual restoration and holographic simulation in one step!"