Rat brain flies jet

sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 10:42 am

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/07/rat_brain_flies_jet/

Florida scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish and taught it to fly a fighter plane.

Scientists at the university of Florida taught the 'brain', which was grown from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a rat embryo, to pilot an F-22 jet simulator. It was taught to control the flight path, even in mock hurricane-strength winds.
Click to Visit

"When we first hooked them up, the plane 'crashed' all the time," Dr Thomas DeMarse, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Florida, said. "But over time, the neural network slowly adapts as the brain learns to control the pitch and roll of the aircraft. After a while, it produces a nice straight and level trajectory."

The brain-in-a-dish was DeMarse' idea. To produce it, 25,000 rat neurones were suspended in a specialised liquid to keep them alive and then laid across a grid of 60 electrodes in a small glass dish.

Cool

Archived topic from Anythingforums, old topic ID:1426, old post ID:18095

MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:23 pm

Yeah, that's out there yo! I read that a while back, complete insane. Kinda wierd, but more fascinating.

Archived topic from Anythingforums, old topic ID:1426, old post ID:18101

FloodG8-9595 · Post by **FloodG8-9595** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 1:42 pm

wow rats brains can fly planes even in a hurricane near spain that'll drive you insane with pain in the rain while eating a candy cane pull a little tighter on the chain near the drain of life and let loose with the knife.

in summation.. neato..

Archived topic from Anythingforums, old topic ID:1426, old post ID:18108

sintekk · Post by **sintekk** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:35 pm

I thought it was a cool article! But... what happens if our rat-brained jets get too smart? Will they conquer the earth?

I, for one, welcome our new cyborg rat-jet overlords

Archived topic from Anythingforums, old topic ID:1426, old post ID:18114

FloodG8-9595 · Post by **FloodG8-9595** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 2:56 pm

Hail to queen rat!

Archived topic from Anythingforums, old topic ID:1426, old post ID:18294

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Dec 16, 2004 3:24 pm

Rodent intelligence slowly taking over the world, one infrasctucture at a time. my plan is working, yes!!!

Archived topic from Anythingforums, old topic ID:1426, old post ID:18302

FloodG8-9595 · Post by **FloodG8-9595** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:09 pm

Rats are hethonistic against Christ Red... I thought you'd know that..

j/k

Archived topic from Anythingforums, old topic ID:1426, old post ID:18631