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At last the scientific world has pushed me a few feet closer to living my dream of being a brain inside a robot ninja body. A team of British researchers took a blob of neurons from an embryonic rat's brain, hooked it up to a robot controller, and used the resulting brain-computer mashup to make a small robot (pictured). The brain cells help the robot navigate around a room, and damn if it isn't a little squicky to imagine that a rat brain peers out of those robot eyes. More »
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