Rat-Brained Robots Take Their First Steps

missb writes "Brain tissue cultured from rats has controlled a wheeled robot around a lab, according to New Scientist this week. Researchers in the UK have harnessed signals from thousands of disembodied rat neurons, and manipulated them to get a robot to respond to instructions. The team at the University of Reading in the UK hope their research will help provide treatments for diseases like Alzheimer's and epilepsy."

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Re:That outcome is very much exaggerated.

[Ngarrang]

That outcome is very much exaggerated, apparently to try to get more attention. Any such result would depend on other huge advancements not yet made.

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