[redsniper]

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1BkmQ6/en.vidivodo.com/188787/first-cyborg-of-the-world

It's a robot controlled by rat neurons. Rats today, terminators tomorrow.

[qazwsx]

[General Battuta]

 

threat down time

[StarSlayer]

Kinda like a Killa Kan minus the buzza saws, rokkit launchas and garish paint job.

[Bobboau]

more like a mini-dalek

[Oddgrim]

 
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[Unknown Target]

That rat's brain must be in a special kind of hell. I wonder why the robot was behaving so erratically and not displaying many rat-like behaviors (like recognizing and running away from movement/people, or not running into objects repeatedly).

[qazwsx]

From what I've previously heard about this sort of thing, I think it's more akin to a collection of rat neurons grown in a petri dish.

[newman]

Experiments on humans > experiments on animals. Also, I'm kinda skeptical about this particular video being legit. For all I know that's just a remote controlled hunk of junk.

[Thaeris]

Nah, this is real. I've seen things like this before in documentaries...

Of course the rat was a living rat in that instance with implants - it was more like a remote-controlled animal.

...For the record, I do find the possible applications of this sort of thing disturbing, depending on the usage of course...

[redsniper]

They didn't take the brain out of a rat, they just grabbed a few brain cells out of a rat embryo and grew them in a dish or something. So all the 'brain' has ever known is the input it gets from the robot.

[Mongoose]

Those bastards...they've doomed us all. 

[Aardwolf]

This is awesome.

@redsniper, are you getting this from a specific source, or are you speculating?

[redsniper]

I read it somewhere. Don't know the veracity.

[Bobboau]

that's what the video said.

[Kosh]

The Technocalyps is coming.........