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Robo-rat

Well there's certainly no disturbing implications regarding that!
 
It's one of those stories I've been eyeing on Google News all week and finally decided to look into a little bit.

At first look it has the senastional implication that they took a rat brain and put it in a robot and now the Rat lives on running around with it's new robo-wheels.

I immediately thought of Dr. Ira Graves from the Schizoid Man (TNG) and was predictably disappointed when I realized (as I knew all along) that they hadn't just transplanted a rat brain into a robot body and let it run riot.

Still a great story though and is obviously a great scientific breakthrough.
 
I'm still somewhat confused about it, really.

So is it basically that the sensors make a high-pitched noise when they get close to a wall, and the glob of brain cells reacts to that sound and makes it go away from the wall?

I'd be kind of curious to see how that works exactly, you know. It says in here that the rat-brains pick forwards or backwards, what's the mechanism for communicating that, you know?
 
Telepathy.
 
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