Robot with a rat brain - General

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-0eZytv6Qk&feature=channel[/media] MADNESS I TELL YOU!

Create a Robo-rat army. Accomplish nothing.

[img]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090529204420/fallout/de/images/d/d7/Robobrain.png[/img] only a matter of time...

so let me get this straight. they are using a rat brain to program the commands to the robot? or the brain is really thinking about where it is going?

Put some cheese at the end of a maze and see what the robot does.

Wireless brain control and robots... CORTEX COMMAND ANYONE?

Now let's do this with humans.

[QUOTE=legolover122;25533677]so let me get this straight. they are using a rat brain to program the commands to the robot? or the brain is really thinking about where it is going?[/QUOTE] The robot is controlled by the brain which is operating as it would in the rat. Say the nerves for each eye is wired to a light sensor so instead of images the brain sees two brightnesses and the brain instinctively goes to the darker one (You could emulate this by cutting ping pong balls in half the taping one half over each eye), The motors are wired up to the nerves that would control things like leg movement and touch sensors would be wired up to the nerves for lets say the whiskers. Obviously this is a turbo simplification but that's the concept behind it. It is a terrible and short existence for the brain (rat) though because say you have five senses (you do) suddenly you only had two senses ,they were oversimplified, you have no idea what's going on and your brain is now going to begin to die soon (because it needs a constant supply of oxygen and nutrients), seems like a shitty existence. But I am still all for this sort of thing.

Well, it was brain CELLS, not the jiggely piece of grey jello you might immagine. But still, I WANT A ROBOBRAIN from fallout!

[QUOTE=Aw_Hell;25535306]The robot is controlled by the brain which is operating as it would in the rat. Say the nerves for each eye is wired to a light sensor so instead of images the brain sees two brightnesses and the brain instinctively goes to the darker one (You could emulate this by cutting ping pong balls in half the taping one half over each eye), The motors are wired up to the nerves that would control things like leg movement and touch sensors would be wired up to the nerves for lets say the whiskers. Obviously this is a turbo simplification but that's the concept behind it. It is a terrible and short existence for the brain (rat) though because say you have five senses (you do) suddenly you only had two senses ,they were oversimplified, you have no idea what's going on and your brain is now going to begin to die soon (because it needs a constant supply of oxygen and nutrients), seems like a shitty existence. But I am still all for this sort of thing.[/QUOTE] Except the brain hasn't been transplanted from a living rat's head, and has no memories like that. I wouldn't exactly call it conscious, and not really 'living' in the same sense that a rat lives. They've [b]grown[/b] an array of rat neurons in the lab. They haven't connected different parts of rat-brain to perform certain tasks, either - they start with a blank canvas of brain cells, feed it input from everywhere, the cells process the signal and give an output. It's kinda' like an organic neural network, unless I'm corrected.