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RE: Technology Review - Rat-Brained Robot
by flynn23 at 2:03 pm EST, Dec 18, 2002

Decius wrote:
] ] "In his experiment, Potter places a droplet of solution
] ] containing thousands of rat neuron cells onto a silicon
] ] chip that's embedded with 60 electrodes connected to an
] ] amplifier. The electrical signals that the cells fire at
] ] one another are picked up by the electrodes which then
] ] send the amplified signal into a computer. The computer,
] ] in turn, wirelessly relays the data to the robot.
]
] Yes, you read that correctly.

This is _awesome_!

RE: Technology Review - Rat-Brained Robot


 
 
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