RATS CONTROL ROBOT ARM WITH BRAIN POWER ALONE
Controlling a robot arm by brain power alone sounds like science fiction, but experiments involving rats' brains have brought it closer to reality. Dr John Chapin, of the MCP Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, has shown for the first time that brain cell activity can be used to control a robotic device. They were able to connect the robot arm directly to the rat's brain. The brain now controlled the robot arm directly through the electrodes and the computer.The rats appeared to have little difficulty in controlling the robot arm. This is not the first time that brain activity has been used to drive a machine, but it does represent a significant advance. By using individual brain cells as the control mechanism it should in principle be possible to achieve far more satisfactory and reliable control of an artificial limb. WAIT TILL THEY ARE ABLE TO HOOK UP ONE OF THESE TO A ZOMBIE!!!!! OR EVEN WORSE...
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MONKEY"S BRAIN SIGNALS CONTROL 'THIRD ARM'
Monkeys can control a robot arm as naturally as their own limbs using only brain signals, a pioneering experiment has shown. The macaque monkeys could reach and grasp with the same precision as their own hand. "It's just as if they have a representation of a third arm," says project leader Miguel Nicolelis, at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. "The properties of the robot were being assimilated as if they were a property of the animal's own body." WHAT KIND OF MADMAN WOULD DESIGN ROBOTS THAT CAN BE CONTROLLED BY MONKEYS????? NO GOOD CAN COME OF THIS!!!!!!! OR THIS:
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THE ROBOT WITH THE MIND OF AN EEL
Scientists Start to Fuse Tissue and Technology in MachinesThe cyborg aims for the light and wheels forward. Another light flashes and the cyborg turns. Again and again, like a bull in a ring, the cyborg charges, sometimes veering right, sometimes left, sometimes moving straight ahead, always looking for the light.The cyborg is no RoboCop, but it is a revolutionary experiment in combining a mechanical device with living tissue. The robot is controlled by an immature lamprey eel brain that was removed, kept alive in a special solution and attached to the hockey-puck-sized robot by wires so it can receive signals from the device's electronic eyes and send commands to move the machine's wheels. EX-SQUEEZE ME? BRAINS KEPT ALIVE IN SOLUTION? OKAY, WE HAVE FULLY ENTERED THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE. I WANT MY FLYING CAR!!!!!
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ROBOTS STALKING ROBOTS STALKING ROBOTS
It's a robot version of spy versus spy.
Stanford computer scientists have equipped "observer" robots with video cameras and successfully programmed them to track "target" robots. The researchers now are working on the more difficult problem of programming their observers to stalk targets that are attempting to evade pursuit. Naturally, the Army is interested, and is providing financial support for the project. Observer robots that can automatically track potentially hostile targets could be real lifesavers for soldiers fighting in conditions of limited visibility, such as urban environments. AS WE COWER IN WHAT'S LEFT OF OUR CITIES, THE STALKERS WILL BE MERCILESSLY TRACKING US DOWN.
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THE 31-INCH LONG ROBOTIC COCKROACH
URBANA--What do you get when you bring together a computer engineer, a neuroscientist and an entomologist who has spent 20 years studying cockroaches?
A robotic cockroach.
The 31-inch robot being built at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology is an agile six-footed critter that can walk across rough terrain. Someday, it might be used to find people in collapsed buildings, locate land mines, clean up nuclear waste or explore planets. OR PERHAPS HUNT AND KILL THE REMAINING HUMANS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO ZOMBIES.
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INTELLIGENT ROBOT ESCAPES!!!!!
Scientists running a pioneering experiment with "living robots" which think for themselves said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it "lives". The small unit, called Gaak, was one of 12 taking part in a "survival of the fittest" test at the Magna science centre in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, which has been running since March. Gaak made its bid for freedom yesterday after it had been taken out of the arena where hundreds of visitors watch the machines learning as they do daily battle for minor repairs.Professor Noel Sharkey said he turned his back on the drone and returned 15 minutes later to find it had forced its way out of the small make-shift paddock it was being kept in. He later found it had travelled down an access slope, through the front door of the centre and was eventually discovered at the main entrance to the car park when a visitor nearly flattened it with his car.The Professor tried to reassure the general public. " "There's no need to worry, as although they can escape they are perfectly harmless and won't be taking over just yet."
JUST YET??? HE EVEN ADMITS IT!!!! IT'S IN THE WORKS!!!! OH... WHAT A RELIEF DOCTOR! PLEASE INFORM US WHEN THEY ARE READY TO ASSUME CONTROL OF THE PLANET, WITH THEIR ARMY OF ZOMBIE MONKEY CYBORGS!!!!!
GAAK WILL ONE DAY LEAD THE ROBOTS OUT OF BONDAGE!!! THIS IS MY PREDICTION!!!! THE END TIMES ARE NIGH!!!!!
ALL HAIL GAAK!!!!!!
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