True Story: Animals + Robots

MrMunkeepants on 7/3/2007 at 05:54

Taken from SciFi's (http://blog.scifi.com/tech/) Tech Blog:

"Is there anything scarier than the thought of an army of cyborg animals, programmed to rip out your jugular with no fear of death? I say no. Which is why the photo (http://blog.scifi.com/tech/pics/rat_brain_implant.jpg) here keeps me up at night. Look at that rat! He has wires going into his exposed brain! Words don't exist to express that horribleness in that photograph! Augh!

And it gets worse! Apparently this goes way beyond the mere (http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2006/03/17/military_agency.html) cyborg butterflies we've reported on in the past. There is work being done on animals such as pigeons, bugs, and, I'm not kidding, sharks. Sharks! Half-robot sharks! I'm pretty sure DARPA has been recording my nightmares, as it doesn't get much scarier than that. Stay away from me, cyborg animal assassins. — Adam Frucci" (http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/03/02/animals_robots.html) URL

just thought the folks here would get a kick out of this!

Kolya on 7/3/2007 at 07:12

There's only one possible answer to this abomination.

(http://img85.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cyberhandlb2.jpg)

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june gloom on 7/3/2007 at 08:24

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I'm not kidding, sharks. Sharks! Half-robot sharks! I'm pretty sure DARPA has been recording my nightmares, as it doesn't get much scarier than that.

(http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=landsharkdn1.jpg)

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cosmicnut on 7/3/2007 at 10:14

Nah, the brits have got it beat!
Kevin Warrick, a university lecturer, created an implant that allowed him to operate a robotic hand! (to a very basic degree)
He also managed to give himself "bat" like senses by tying it to a sonar array!
Not only can this implant detect nerve signals and translate them, it works the other way round, stimulating nerve cells to allowing 2 way communication!

(http://www.kevinwarwick.com/Cyborg2.htm) Link!

RocketMan on 7/3/2007 at 16:09

Quote Posted by MrMunkeepants

Which is why the photo (http://blog.scifi.com/tech/pics/rat_brain_implant.jpg) here keeps me up at night. Look at that rat! He has wires going into his exposed brain!

WTF is that protruding from its head? A MOuSeFET ? :D

Ken, take note....you have comptetion.

JossiRossi on 7/3/2007 at 16:50

Kevin Warwick is an idiot. Makes people who do the real science look bad.

cosmicnut on 8/3/2007 at 09:04

So the testing of an implant that could mean the creation of artifical limbs that respond to thought patterns is not real science....

Yes, it's probably over dramatic. However, to do REAL science, you need money!

Experiments like this bring the subject to the publics attention as well as showing the people that matter, that the science is viable.

maxmon on 8/3/2007 at 15:29

LoL

That rat is teh funnie.

kodan50 on 8/3/2007 at 16:51

Poor rat. What is that device hooked to him do? That doesnt seem logically resonable. I cant imagine the rat utalizing augmentations properly.

Kolya on 8/3/2007 at 17:29

You mean to throw objects at it's tantalizers by sheer will force?
Seriously the augmentation is most likely there to utilize the mouse not vice versa.