For four days NeurotechEU-UD organized activities focusing on neuroscience and neurotechnology. Visitors at our booth had the chance to learn about the macroscopic organization of the brain using plastinated human brains.
The younger generation could produce their own paper “brain-caps” and they could match the different labeled brain regions to the plastinated real brains.
Enthusiastic volunteers could test their drawing skills, repeating what the great Spanish neuroscientist, Ramon Y Cajal did for decades – reproducing individually labeled neurons on paper from microscope slides.
The Faculty of Pharmacy brought different dried and infused herbs that have an effect on the CNS and volunteers could test their senses to recognize these herbs by smell, taste, and vision.
This year Neurotech EU-UD teamed up with the Social Robotics Research Group. The Faculty of Engineering together with the Hungarian company Enjoy Robotics presented their service humanoid robots and a robot dog.
At the same time, psychologists from the Faculty of Arts asked visitors to fill out questionnaires about their attitude towards service and surgical assistant robots.
On the second day of the event the Rehabilitation Gaming System (Eodyne) was introduced to the public in the form of a short presentation and visitors also had a chance to listen to the participants of the first Hungarian Brain Bee competition, organized with the collaboration of NeurotechEU-UD.
The entire presentation can be found at the following link.
Photos and event video: Geza Sarvari