Sort by Neatorama (Free subscription) - 08/18/2008 - YouTube
Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19926696.100 This robot steers clear of obstacles thanks to a pile of rat brain cells. Footage...
Sort by Neatorama (Free subscription) - 08/18/2008
[YouTube Link] Following the Terminator story, we go to this groundbreaking invention by professor Kevin Warwick of the University of Reading: a robot with a living brain! Meet Gordon, probably the world’s first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue. Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon’s primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading by [...]
Sort by CrunchGear (Free subscription) - 08/14/2008
Scientists in the UK (well, Reading) have developed a robot that has an actual brain. Like, the brain is made out of rat neurons. So already this robot is smarter than Biggs. The scientists, from the University of Reading, put together the robot so they can better study “how memories are actually stored in a biological [...]
Sort by Wired Science (Free subscription) - 08/14/2008
Rat neurons can be used to control simple robots, researchers report. By hooking up hundreds of thousands of fetal rat brain cells to a wheeled machine via an array of electrodes, the neurons' random can direct its motion, University of...
Sort by MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) - 08/15/2008
Scientists from the university of Reading have created a simple wheeled robot with distance sensors that is controlled wirelessly by a network of cells from a rat's brain. The sensor data is fed to the neurons which reside in a nutrient/antibiotic solution - the cells output is then transmitted to the 'body' as control commands. The images in the above video make it all look surprisingly simple -...
Sort by OhGizmo! (Free subscription) - 08/18/2008
By Jonathan Kimak Maybe it’s because I’m a big Simpsons fan that I keep on seeing their influence on technology whether it’s there or not. In this case I see this next story as a precursor to a halloween episode where Homer has his brain transplanted into the body of a robot, with sexy results. Researchers at [...]
Sort by Hack A Day (Free subscription) - 08/15/2008
Scientists at the University of Reading have created a robot that runs not on microprocessors, but on brain cells extracted from a rat fetus. The robot is equipped with several sensors which stimulate the rat neurons whenever the robot approaches a wall; the response of the neurons then determines whether the robot avoids the wall or crashes into it. The truly fascinating bit is that the rat brain...
Sort by Medgadget (Free subscription) - 08/14/2008
Scientists from the University of Reading have cultured cells from rat brains and used the matrix to control a robot's movement, keeping it from hitting the wall. The robot's biological brain is made up of cultured neurons which are placed onto a multi electrode array (MEA). The MEA is a dish with approximately 60 electrodes which pick up the electrical signals generated by the cells. This is then...
Sort by Hacked Gadgets (Free subscription) - 11/01/2008
I hope this article doesn’t creep out as many people as the Remote Controlled Pigeon article did. It looks like researchers have found a way to take some brain cells and repourposed them to operate a robot. Have a look at this New Scientist article for more information. "It’s these spontaneous electrical patterns that researchers at [...]
Sort by Fashionfunky (Free subscription) - 08/22/2008
I dont know whose brains are worse , that of the rodents or the scientists who actually gave a robotic body to be controlled by the brains of this pest to mankind. What else can one call this Frankensteinish display...
Sort by A.E.Brain (Free subscription) - 08/15/2008
Well, close enough. It's a Hybrot controlled by cultured rat braincells. More over at New Scientist , though regular readers of this blog will already know the basic theory, as I posted about it 2 years ago, and indeed, as far back as 2003 . " Laminated Mouse Brains " are a reference to Cordwainer Smith's Think Blue, Count Two , from Galaxy Magazine, Feb 1963. ...Tiga-belax came in, very cheerful indeed...
Sort by Smart Economy (Free subscription) - 08/14/2008
Robot with 300,000 rat neurons and brain functions According to New Scientist this week "..... the disembodied neurons are communicating, sending electrical signals to one another just as they do in a living creature. We know this because the network...
