[funsec] Of Rats and Men

[Drsolly]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Dude VanWinkle wrote:

> Gatech being kind to our furry friends I see ;-)
> 
> from: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,71457-0.html
> 
> Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology figured they could
> learn more from neuron clumps that acted more like real brains, so
> they've developed "neurally controlled animats" -- a few thousand rat
> neurons grown atop a grid of electrodes and connected to a robot body
> or computer-simulated virtual environment.

What, they ran out of lawyers?