Robot controlled with rat brain cells
An amazing experiment conducted by placing rat brain cells on electrodes in order to control a robotic mechanism. Artificial rat?
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3. ringmaster commented 15 years ago
I don't like animal testing. Put the ethics aside, it illustrates an important point. If we can grow something between our minds and 'lost' parts of our body, we may be able to use them after an accident, birth defect or other causes.
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4. 0m3ga3 commented 15 years ago
Poor little fellow...
I don't like the idea. Will the humans more careless with the environment with each other then with themselves if some or the whole of their body would be 're-placeable'?
Another side of the tale: this robot is contolled by a rat-brain... but how long can a rat brain 'live' (if it can be named life) without a rat? How long a rat can live without a brain?
How many rats died for this one 'walking machine'?
Are we need robo-rats so badly? (don't we have enough 'bio-rats'?)
Plus a human brain and nerve system differs from rat brain and nerve system... will this knowledge ever usefull for human organs?
Will we being a re-programmable 'good worker of the society'?
Have you ever read 1984 from Orwell?
I think we shold not choose that path.
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
— Albert Einstein
I think we should make peace with nature. Without slicing it.
I don't like the idea. Will the humans more careless with the environment with each other then with themselves if some or the whole of their body would be 're-placeable'?
Another side of the tale: this robot is contolled by a rat-brain... but how long can a rat brain 'live' (if it can be named life) without a rat? How long a rat can live without a brain?
How many rats died for this one 'walking machine'?
Are we need robo-rats so badly? (don't we have enough 'bio-rats'?)
Plus a human brain and nerve system differs from rat brain and nerve system... will this knowledge ever usefull for human organs?
Will we being a re-programmable 'good worker of the society'?
Have you ever read 1984 from Orwell?
I think we shold not choose that path.
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
— Albert Einstein
I think we should make peace with nature. Without slicing it.
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9. ezeliel commented 15 years ago
#6 Most of the experiments with rats, you have to anesthetize them before extracting anything from the head. After the extraction, they are killed. The only pain they suffer is from the anesthetic injection.
It's not like I approve killing some animals to save other animals because we are mammalians just like them but I'm not going to protest neither because I may need whatever they discover later
It's not like I approve killing some animals to save other animals because we are mammalians just like them but I'm not going to protest neither because I may need whatever they discover later
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11. drgreeen111 commented 15 years ago
they tried it on Paris Hilton but nothing so they used her dog(the rat) instead and amazing it dose respond to out side stimulation.
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+30 1. Brendans13 commented 15 years ago