Rat brain runs robot

marcus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...1022104658.htm

a few thousand individual cells, rat neurons, placed on a Petri dish with 60 built-in electrodes, spontaneously connect themselves to form a neural network which is capable of controling things*
and modifying its behavior as a result of feedback.

*controling things means controling an aircraft flight simulator (T. DeMarse at U. Florida) or a small mobile robot (S. Potter at Georgia Tech).

There may already be thread about this, since there was a Georgia Tech release about it over a year ago. Anybody remember?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0428082503.htm

NoTime

Once more science fiction becomes reality

Ivan Seeking

Oh great. The next thing you know we will have robots digging through the garbage and crawling through the walls.

Really though, quite amazing; and a little scary.