08-14-2008, 01:12 AM
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Mr. Ganja
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Definitely NOT in Baz Luhrmann's Australia...
Posts: 1,213
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Trippy News of the Day-Rat Brained Robots
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Found this on /. today:
Rise of the rat-brained robots - tech - 13 August 2008 - New Scientist Tech
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AFTER buttoning up a lab coat, snapping on surgical gloves and spraying them with alcohol, I am deemed sanitary enough to view a robot's control system up close. Without such precautions, any fungal spores on my skin could infect it. "We've had that happen. They just stop working and die off," says Mark Hammond, the system's creator.
This is no ordinary robot control system - a plain old microchip connected to a circuit board. Instead, the controller nestles inside a small pot containing a pink broth of nutrients and antibiotics. Inside that pot, some 300,000 rat neurons have made - and continue to make - connections with each other.
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It's a pretty trippy article. Well worth the read.
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