Robot with a rat brain

Mark Hammond and colleagues at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom can control this robot with rat brain cells.

This is no ordinary robot control system – a plain old microchip connected to a circuit board. Instead, the controller nestles inside a small pot containing a pink broth of nutrients and antibiotics. Inside that pot, some 300,000 rat neurons have made – and continue to make – connections with each other

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