Rat-Powered Robots?
Robots frighten me to the core but rats give me the willies. Put them together and what to you get? A good reason to head for the bunker. From io9:
A robot controlled by a simulated rat brain has proved itself to be a remarkable mimic of rodent behaviour in series of classic animal experiments. The robot’s biologically-inspired control software uses a functional model of “place cells”. These are neurons in an area of the brain called the hippocampus that help real rats to map their environment. They fire when an animal is in a familiar location.
I hope everyone is looking forward to the day when a robotic-age Willard takes over the world with his army of ratbots.
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