Working Nerve Chip

poetic writes: "Two scientists from Munich have succeeded in creating a nerve chip with silicon and snail nerves. The cells were hindered from growing away from the silicon with a plastic fence. They managed to get a signal to go from silicon through a neural circuit and back to the chip again. Cute, one step closer to a decent uplink! See the abstract at Nature's site."

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But the only problem is...

[Pig Hogger]

Two scientists from Munich have succeded in creating a nerve chip with silicon and snail nerves.

But the only problem is the slowness of the propagation.

Next year, they are going to try the same experiment with rabbit nerves, to see if there is a speed improvement.