Robot Controlled By Rat Brain

kkleiner writes "Kevin Warwick, once a cyborg and still a researcher in cybernetics at the University of Reading, has been working on creating biological neural networks that can control machines. He and his team have taken the brain cells from rats, cultured them, and used them as the guidance control circuit for simple wheeled robots. Electrical impulses from the bot enter the batch of neurons, and responses from the cells are turned into commands for the device. The cells can form new connections, making the system a true learning machine."

Comments

Re:Creepy.

[Pharmboy]

Way to creep me the fuck out, slashdot.

Now they just need to connect frickin' laser beams to their heads, because even rat-bots deserve a hot meal.

SingularityHub == public onanism

[benjfowler]

Am I the only impression that the people who write for (and read) SingularityHub are either clueless attention whores like Jon Katz, or basement-dwelling nerds with a tenuous grip on reality (at best) fapping off to science fiction?