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Hybrid Robot Uses Rat Brain
CowboyRobot writes "After two recent stories of artificial brains used to control rats and one about MIT doing the reverse, NYTimes now has a piece on similar work done at Georgia Tech From the article:
"...the layer of rat neurons is grown over an array of electrodes that pick up the neurons' electrical activity. A computer analyzes the activity of the several thousand brain cells in real time to detect spikes produced by neurons firing near an electrode." But this time you can buy one for $3,000."
I thought this was a story about Al Gore.
If your bitterest enemies are people who hack the heads off civilians, then I would say you're doing something right.
Then you'd have a stroke, be knocked offline, and if you're lucky you'd be back surfing as Windows XP Home.
Karma whorin' since 1999
Who knew they were transplanting rat brains into aibo robot dogs!
Back in the day, we used to talk about robots. But for us, it was always a frightening thing. Then saturday night live did a commercial about robots stealing our medicine! Believe you me, THAT had me scared for a while! I know it was satire, but it's not hard to imagine robots living off the powerful medicines we old people use!
Not that this isn't cool and all, but:
I don't want to be around when this thing becomes aware enough to take retribution for countless generations of lab rat torture! Someone will stumble into the lab and find a scientist's brain wired into a speak-n-spell, with a rat-bot-shaped hole in the wall and a trail of cheese crumbs...
"Here's another one: 'More brains, and bring back Hawaiian Fridays'"
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I think it'd be perfect (aka simple minded).
Whoa! I know Rat-Fu.
Seems fitting that NYTimes ran a story on this. How long before we start to see these things in NYC subway tunnels?
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
I will wait until i can purchase a ratbrain pci card before I jump on the bandwagon. Imagine the image recognition possibilites :)
Move Zig!
"And then the old man's kids came. The robot remembered them and began to cry. But the tears short circuited the robot and he died and fell onto the kids. And none of them lived..." Hope that doesn't happen!
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Orkin in Very Intrested..... Just think program 3 rats to invade a house. and then just wait for the phone call to get rid of the rats get paid and have the rats move next door.....
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers.
They are only using female rats for this experiment. If they use male rats the report would probably look something like
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Monday morning
Robot tried too shag other robots
Monday afternoon
Robot refused to move from candy vending machine
Monday evening
Robot tried too shag other robots
Tuesday morning
Robot tried too shag other robots
How long before they turn us all into remote control human drones?
Who are "they", and why would they bother spending the money on remote-control when they can just lawsuit- and reality-TV- us into submission?
Robot : "Gee, Brain what do you want to do tonight?" : "The same thing we do every night Pinky. Follow that stupid light around!"
Brain
Plus, the mice own the Earth. Best not to mess with them, right?
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As a scientist, I regret that you are not my animal.
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
At least we'll never run out of politicians now. :-)
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How true! It's far better to experiment on humans! In fact, I'm volunteering you to be the first to have their brain wired to a robot!
Since when does having a better chance at being selected for a science experiment that will probably kill you count as an "advantage?"
The only word I understood in that whole thing was "sandwich." :) Mmmm Subway...
"Wow, you're like some kind of superhero able to ward off happiness and success at every turn."
-- Ryan Stiles
They invade our kitchens, and we fall back. They steal entire cheeses, and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, and no farther. And I will make the mice-borg pay for what they have done!
Repeal the DMCA!
...Beowulf clusters of cheese :)
"So there he is, risen from the dead. Like that fella, E. T." - Father Ted Crilly
******L4M3RZ: w00t
-=[HAXX0R]=-: oh it died
Guess this will bring an all new meaning to the phrase:
"Behold! The power of cheese."
doesn't include the cybernetic rat brain.
:)
You could always use a couple of thousand of your own brain cells
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