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Remote Controlled Rats

sclatter writes: "They aren't precisely robot rats, but these little rodents can be cued to perform different actions through electrodes implanted in their brains. Could be a boon for search and rescue in collapsed buildings!" As one skeptic in the article says, though, "Without the gee-whizery, without the remote-control and so on, that this kind of thing was possible has been obvious for decades."

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  1. Re:Barbaric! by sisukapalli1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    Animals, like plants are a resource to be used. They are not people.


    Funny, they think of employees like that in many of the sweat shops!

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