I, for one, welcome our rat-brain Overlords

Blogged under Commentary, Media, News, Tech by Kris Kane on Wednesday 13 August 2008 at 8:44 pm

Shit like this always freaks me out, but also fills me with a pale, sickly sort of hope for a better (if creepier) future.

The blob of nerves forming the brain of the robot was taken from the neural cortex in a rat foetus and then treated to dissolve the connections between individual neurons [excerpt taken from here].

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