A robot with a real brain
Researchers have introduced the world to Gordon, the first robot that operates on real brain tissue, according to a linkurl:news release;http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/newsandevents/releases/PR16530.asp from University of Reading in the UK yesterday (August 13). The robot moves only under direction from his brain, which is a collection of 50,000-100,000 rat neurons. The researchers separated the neurons from rat fetuses, cultured them, and then spread them on a nutrient-rich array panel with 6

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