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Robot Laboratory Assistants

Sounds like some brits figured out how to make a robot use AI to guide an automated trial and error process. Sort of like giving Igore an full graveyard and telling him to keep trying to electrocute bodies until something cool happens.

The computer would still need monitoring, after all, if he finds something that he wasn’t [...]

Memory Alteration ‘Advance’

Some researchers in Brooklyn have found some chemical that alters the memory storage processes of the brain.

Theoretically, it could be used to someday cure addiction, which is a learned behavior.

It could also be used to turn people into dolls that get rented out for the purposes of paying clients. I so love Joss Whedon.

So if an [...]

Rat brain powered robot

http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg19926696.100-rise-of-the-ratbrained-robots.html

A disembodied rat brain interfaced to a computer chip, interfaced to a robot, which moves around the lab.

‘As they do so, the disembodied neurons are communicating, sending electrical signals to one another just as they do in a living creature. We know this because the network of neurons is connected at the base of the pot [...]