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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 935 Joined: 2-September 10 Member No.: 19,000  |
God Damn Cyborg Rat.
QUOTE Unlike some brain-machine interface, or BMI, devices that rely on noninvasive EEG to detect neural activity, the RatCar works through direct contact with the brain. Other researchers have used this technique in getting rats to control robotic grippers and monkeys to control computer cursors and even advanced robot arms. Essentially, we are talking about proto-DNI here. |
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Oct 7 2010, 09:54 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 9-August 09 From: MD Member No.: 17,486 |
Haha, initially I thought you were talking about this.
This is really cool, but wasn't there an article a couple weeks ago about jarhead rats as well? Screw post-human, post-rat is the way to go. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif) Though it does seem like we're equipping them with pretty much everything they need for the revolution... |
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Oct 17 2010, 08:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 127 Joined: 22-October 08 Member No.: 16,542 |
QUOTE (TheMidnightHobo @ Oct 7 2010, 02:54 PM)  Haha, initially I thought you were talking about this. This is really cool, but wasn't there an article a couple weeks ago about jarhead rats as well? Screw post-human, post-rat is the way to go. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cyber.gif) Though it does seem like we're equipping them with pretty much everything they need for the revolution... That mouse looks like the new movie Batmobile. As for the rodent revolution, don't forget all the gene tweaks in addition to the cyber. Ethics really holds back the transhuman revolution. |
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Oct 17 2010, 10:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 704 Joined: 20-November 06 From: The seemingly unknown area of land between Seattle and Idaho. Member No.: 9,910 |
Ex posteris, Rodentia!
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Oct 17 2010, 11:26 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,679 Joined: 19-September 09 Member No.: 17,652 |
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Oct 17 2010, 11:29 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,479 Joined: 6-May 05 From: Idaho Member No.: 7,377 |
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Oct 17 2010, 11:52 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 202 Joined: 1-November 09 Member No.: 17,826 |
That is freaking looking. Cyber Zombie Rat....
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Oct 18 2010, 12:02 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,000 Joined: 30-May 09 From: Germany Member No.: 17,225 |
Hm... is it REALLY utterly controled by a brain in a jar? No tricks/editing out that he says: "and it WILL be controlled..." etc.? Working cyborg, here and now? How does the brain not die? How long does it last?
Hm... interesting indeed. |
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Oct 18 2010, 03:55 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,679 Joined: 19-September 09 Member No.: 17,652 |
QUOTE (Summerstorm @ Oct 17 2010, 07:02 PM) Hm... is it REALLY utterly controled by a brain in a jar? No tricks/editing out that he says: "and it WILL be controlled..." etc.? Working cyborg, here and now? How does the brain not die? How long does it last? Hm... interesting indeed. Yes, it literally has no motherboard, just some rat brain cells. Not sure what the life support process is, but it only lives for 3 months, so that robot has actually been controlled by several different rat brains over the years that it has existed. |
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Oct 18 2010, 05:47 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 3,009 Joined: 25-September 06 From: Paris, France Member No.: 9,466 |
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Oct 18 2010, 06:02 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,705 Joined: 5-October 09 From: You are in a clearing Member No.: 17,722 |
But not so much this.
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Oct 18 2010, 12:48 PM
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QUOTE (Karoline @ Oct 17 2010, 07:26 PM) And here I thought he was talking about this. Yeah, the jarhead rats! Honestly I thought this was pretty rad. I mean, 3 months is admittedly terrible for an expected lifespan, but as far as I know these guys are the first people to do this kind of thing. Tech still in infancy, will get better, etc. SR IRL is just around the corner... |
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Oct 18 2010, 01:19 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 127 Joined: 22-October 08 Member No.: 16,542 |
I remember reading awhile back where they used similar tech wirelessly to control a painting "robot" of sorts, so that the rat brain cells could paint. The paint-bot was in Oz and the rat brain was in the US.
I'm just waiting for a time when a tiny bit of the rat's mental processes will get taken up by a piece of tech in its network, slightly amplifying its brainpower, and then it'll grow exponentially to every processor in the wireless web and we'll have an organism that surpasses human intelligence in every way and is completely contained in the cloud with a bit of its "mind" or "code" in every computer type system on Earth, and then it won't need its biological brain cells anymore. A god created by our own hands! *Maniacal laughter* Ahem. |
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Oct 18 2010, 05:12 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,679 Joined: 19-September 09 Member No.: 17,652 |
QUOTE (Rayzorblades @ Oct 18 2010, 08:19 AM) I remember reading awhile back where they used similar tech wirelessly to control a painting "robot" of sorts, so that the rat brain cells could paint. The paint-bot was in Oz and the rat brain was in the US. I'm just waiting for a time when a tiny bit of the rat's mental processes will get taken up by a piece of tech in its network, slightly amplifying its brainpower, and then it'll grow exponentially to every processor in the wireless web and we'll have an organism that surpasses human intelligence in every way and is completely contained in the cloud with a bit of its "mind" or "code" in every computer type system on Earth, and then it won't need its biological brain cells anymore. A god created by our own hands! *Maniacal laughter* Ahem. And this new god's one commandment? "BRING ME CHEESE!" |
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