Beware the ratbots

[Edric O]

So, apparently, scientists have figured out a way to make a neural network (using rat neurons) that will interface with - and command - a simple robot body:

Click here for the full story.

Now we may all look forward to the day when we have squishy gray matter inside our computers.

[Tatar Khan]

Cool, I can see the next Japanese Furby having a rat brain inside of it.

[Caid Ivik]

Cool, I can see the next Japanese Furby having a rat brain inside of it.

how creepy...

[gryphon]

Now we may all look forward to the day when we have squishy gray matter inside our computers.

Think it is the other way around. Who want's an XboX with a brain or a computer who's smarter then you are on the kitchen table while the first humans who have memory chips in their brains, electronic equipment to see, hear and walk integrated in their bodies.

When you got the change visit Germany where you can play pong just by thinking if the right direction. :-)

[Egeides]

I don't know if that's a positive or negative development.... creepy yes. Might you add a poll for that?