Robots with Biological Brains

Scientists at the University of Reading in England have created a robot that receives input to, and processes responses from, a brain made of rat brain cells. The robot knows how to steer to avoid colliding with objects.

I don’t really understand what all the hoopla is about. Americans did this in the 1980s. Doesn’t anyone remember Ronald Reagan? Regardless, anyone that has watched (the best show on TV) Battlestar Galactica knows that biological melding with machines can’t end well.

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One Comment

  1. Jamie
    Posted August 20, 2008 at 12:11 pm | Permalink

    I’m curious, are there also Universities of Writing and Arithmetic?

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