Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 10:21:44 05/02/02
What if you were to wire this into an 8-CPU Fritz 7? : http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/122/nation/Scientists_produce_ratbot_first_radio_controlled_animalP.shtml Would you have a rat that could play GM-level chess? BTW, the link will probably expire in a day or two. So here's a small excerpt: Neuroscientists announced yesterday that they have created the world's first radio-controlled animal by wiring a computer chip directly into the brain of a living rat. The rat wears a small antenna and a backpack that translates a radio signal into electrical pulses applied to the brain. In one experiment at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, a researcher with a laptop was able to guide the rat over a complex three-dimensional maze of ladders, filing cabinets, and thin wooden boards, even though the animal usually prefers to skulk in dark corners. ''It is one of the most amazing demonstrations I have ever seen,'' said Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, a Duke neuroscientist who specializes in brain-machine interfaces and has worked with the scientists on other projects. ''These rats were able to go through mazes that very expensive robots never could.'' The new ''ratbot,'' funded in part by the US military, can be equipped with a miniature video camera and might one day be used to find victims in buildings after an earthquake or bombing, according to the research team.
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