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Robot Has Rat Brain
- j2d2 18y agoHmm... This is a little misleading. It looks like they're using brain matter as a circuit, but not so much a conscious brain making decisions and having circuits interpret that. The researchers aim to get the robot to learn, by applying different signals as it moves into predefined positions. This line speaks most loudly that it's just a circuit. Am I mistaken?
- pavelludiq 18y agoFrom what i understood, the brain doesn't make decisions, it just reacts to stimulation. I think today's xkcd is appropriate :D http://xkcd.com/465/ http://xkcd.com/465/
- gscott 18y agoIt does make decisions, at first it just reacts to stimulation for example it runs it into a wall and they give it a shock, next time when it sees the wall it doesn't run into it! Which is pretty amazing.
- stcredzero 18y agoDidn't Survival Research Labs have a mecha that had 4 legs, each of which was acutated by an electrode attached to a pet hamster's leg? If the writeup in Whole Earth Signals was correct, there was also a microphone that translated the hamster's squeaks into blasts from a flame thrower.