blogs.zdnet.com — It’s interesting to note that this project is being led by Professor Kevin Warwick, who became famous in 1998 when a silicon chip was implanted in his arm to allow a computer to monitor him in order to assess the latest technology for use with the disabled.
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pukgreenuniformAug 15, 2008
Evangelion?
dagoohAug 15, 2008
That robot really likes cheese now.
mcclaytonrollsAug 15, 2008
have you ever seen the show futurorama? thats how the robots get their sustance.
libertyforeverAug 15, 2008
Fantastic. This sounds like a self-learning, self-organizing system - no programming involved. Maybe Kurtzweil got it right - the singularity is near!“This new research is tremendously exciting as firstly the biological brain controls its own moving robot body, and secondly it will enable us to investigate how the brain learns and memorises its experiences. This research will move our understanding forward of how brains work, and could have a profound effect on many areas of science and medicine.”
tetracaAug 15, 2008
<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayflick_limit</a>The neurons will only be able to regenerate themselves so much before they begin to permanantly die off due to the hayflick limit. Of course, if you could remove the hayflick limit through a little genetic engineering you could produce a biologically immortal brain, but without the limit there is a greater risk of a tumor forming.
gn0stikAug 15, 2008
Is this the first man made life form? Can it be considered a life form? Or no, just because it's body is purely mechanical? Fascinating and scary indeed, would a sufficiently large bio brained robot be able to feel emotion? I would think so, so then what would moral implications be of experimenting on something with said biological brain? Amazing.