Is there anything they can’t do? They fly fighter jets, they paint portraits — they are the Amazing Rat Braaains!
The Animat multi-electrode array consists of 60 electrodes embedded on a glass culture dish on which thousands of cultured rat neurons spontaneously form a neural network. They interface to control a simulator for a pair of pneumatic robot arms which self-creates paintings.
I’ve obviously been reading too much of Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog lately, but a disembodied rat brain controlling robot arms sounds a lot like a Brainiac invention about to go wrong.…
Meh, when they have a fighter jet that can control a rat, Then I will be amazed.