Open technology for Continuity
Artificial Brain Life Support
A project to sustain a living brain when the body cannot.
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THE OPPORTUNITY
When the body fails first
UP TO
of adult deaths may arise from causes outside the brain as the primary source.
RTL analysis of WHO global Health Estimates 2021;
adult proxy age 15+. Mortality envelope, not clinical eligibilty.
A body's vital systems can fail while the question of a viable brain remains. ABLS investigates whether artificial support could preserve a person's continuity when those systems can no longer do so.
This is a wide research opportunity, not a claim that 80% of people could receive ABLS to survive.
Heart disease
Cancer outside the brain
Respiratory disease
Kidney disease
Liver disease
Diabetes
THE CONCEPT
Three connected layers of continuity
The support system is the foundation. Software and connected devices are how a person might participate in life.
01 / SUPPORT
An automated ABLS appliance is envisioned to sustain a living biological brain when the body cannot. Senses and control are facilitated by brain-computer interface.
01 / EXPERIENCE
A brain-native 3D Home could host communication, apps, media and virtual worlds people inhabit directly.
03 / PRESENCE
Optional AI-assisted humanoid robots and other connected devices could extend agency into physical places.
OPEN SOURCE FOUNDATION
Publish designs and, eventually, produce a market reference product so other companies can inspect, adapt, and build a new industry.
Reference images are concepts, not functioning products.
COMMUNICATE
Video and audio calls, messages, networks and shared rooms.
A LIFE IN THE CONCEPT
The world could become navigable again
Home is conceived as a 3D place for a person to inhabit - not a flat screen they must watch.
A brain-native interface could make calls, social spaces, media, learning, work and services available from within one environment. Games and virtual worlds could let a person participate as the character, then return to the same Home and relationships.
PARTICIPATE
Video and audio calls, messages, networks and shared rooms.
CONTROL
Video and audio calls, messages, networks and shared rooms.
3D Home software concept, not a working product.
This experience depends on capabilities that are not yet demonstrated for ABLS.
ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES
Key technologies that make ABLS possible
ABLS would depend on multiple existing and emerging fields working together.
Some help sustain the brain biologically. Others help restore communication, control and participation.
Brain-Computer Interface
A future Brain-Computer Interface could provide audio-in, video-in and communication out through the brain's speech centers.
Machine Learning and AI
Machine learning and AI could help interpret brain signals into speech, communication intent, and interface control intent, and over time richer forms of motor control.
Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN)
Nutrition can be delivered through the bloodstream rather than through the digestive system.
Perfusion Technology
Perfusion systems would circulate oxygen- and nutrient-rich synthetic blood through the brain.
These are enabling fields, not proof that an integrated system works. The public reference design remains a concept.
PHYSICAL PRESENCE
A way to be there
An ABLS-enabled person could guide an optional AI-assisted humanoid robot over a wireless link, using natural-language intent rather than operating every joint. A live video and audio stream could connect them with places and people outside the support unit.
Other connected devices—from mobile cameras to drones—could offer different kinds of reach. Touch and additional senses are longer term possibilities, not established first-generation features.
SEE & HEAR
Live video and audio would anchor remote presence
GUIDE
Intent-based piloting could support autonomy.
EXPLORE
Connected devices could extend participation
The robot is an wireless interface; the proposed life-support appliance remains a separate unit.
From an If to a When.
From a When to a Right Now.
OpenABLS is deliberately designed to make the technology real and help an industry grow around it.
We will release useful work, build an inspectable reference unit, and steward the shared foundation for the right to live for all.
PROVEN STRATEGIES
STRATEGY: REPRAP
An open 3D printer project inadvertently created today's consumer 3D printing industry.
We intend to pursue that effect on purpose.
STRATEGY: NVIDIA
NVIDIA's physical reference card matches its base GPU design; licensed vendors adapt that design. An ABLS reference can set the same kind of starting standard.
STRATEGY: MOZILLA
The Mozilla Foundation stewards an open project without shareholders. RTL can direct OpenABLS towards its mission, not profit.
Illustrative precedents, not partners.
A PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT PATH
Build it openly. Make it real.
Each stage is designed to build the foundation for the next one.
01
OPEN
WORKBENCH
02
INTEGRATED
DEVELOPMENT
PLATFORM
03
COMMERCIAL
REFERENCE
PLATFORM
OPEN INDUSTRY
BUILD
A documented, reproducible starting platform.
UNLOCKS
The snowball starts.
BUILD
A prototype for rapid iteration
UNLOCKS
The global race begins.
BUILD
A future unit plus published design documents.
UNLOCKS
Competition serves continuity
Illustrative concepts, not patient-ready. Current work uses no live human or animal brains.
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This webpage is a first look. The three-page brief goes deeper into the physical concept, a life through connected software, and the open strategy for making a new industry inevitable.
12-Page In-Depth Vision Doc
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