Robot controlled by rat brain

[hoolaman]

Came across this interesting video. They have hooked up electrodes to brain cells.

I got a bit of a chill like this video could roll under the opening credits for some terminator style armageddon movie.

Step 1. Rat robot

Step 2. Cyberdyne systems Inc.

Step 3. Nuclear Annihilation

Very interesting if you think of the moral and scientific progression of this tech.

[Stalins Organ]

Beeb article - Cyberdyne might be a wee while off yet, and maybe some insight into how Alzheimer's disease works will come first......

[argie]

"The Game of Rat and Dragon" reminiscences anyone?

[Michael Emrys]

The Word for World is Forest.

Argie, there is something wrong with your blog. It's all in some kind of foreign language. Please fix or etc.

Michael

[argie]

Yeah... And you already know almost everything that is in English...

I suppose that I should make a bilingual version some day.

[John Kettler]

hoolaman,

The SF community foresaw it long ago. Or maybe I should say RVed it. Ingo Swann, the artist and psychic who systematized the work of Rene Warcollier (left out accents) into the RV protocols wrote a book in which living brain slices from psychics were placed into orbit and forced to use their now amplified powers to wreak havoc. The book was called STAR FIRE and was published by DELL in 1978.

Regards,

John Kettler

[Wicky]

As far as I know Anne McCaffrey, without using Time travel or RV, wrote a short story in 1961 'The Ship Who Sang' and a collection of stories published as a book 'The Ship Who Sang' in 1969 .

The Brain & Brawn Ship series takes place in the distant future, when parents of children who are born with severe physical handicaps but highly developed minds are given the option of allowing them to become "shell people"; encapsulated as children in a titanium life-support shell and specially trained for tasks that a "normal" human would be unable to do. These children, after coming of age, are employed in various manners (in the books, mostly as interstellar spacecraft brainships or as the "brains" of cities) to work off the debt of their creation and training. They are all partnered with "Scouts" or "Brawns", humans specially trained to act as a companion or helper. The title derives from the fact that they are the mobile half of the partnership; their inability to go where "soft-shells" can is occasionally annoying to shell people, but not something they would exchange for the added abilities they are granted.

The Ship Who Sang (1969) collection (ISBN 0-345-33431-0) follows the adventures of one of these children, Helva, who when installed in her ship becomes XH-834. The stories recount her early infatuation with her first Brawn, Jennan, her period of mourning after his death, and her mature relationship with another Brawn, Niall.

[Affentitten]

I did a story years ago about a boffin called Srinivasan who had:

1) Wired a living chimp up so that it could control the movments of a robot arm through thoughts.

2) Was using bee brains to develop flight control for UAVs.