Terminator + Planet of the Apes

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  • Dr Mordrid
    Moderator
    • Apr 2001
    • 26592

    #1

    Terminator + Planet of the Apes





    Robot legs controlled across the planet by a monkey with implanted electrodes.
    Dr. Mordrid
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    An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

    I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps
  • Rakido
    Super MURCer
    • Feb 2000
    • 1313

    #2
    *scnr*

    "Women don't want to hear a man's opinion, they just want to hear their opinion in a deeper voice."

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    • NetSnake
      MURCer
      • Feb 2001
      • 531

      #3
      jaw-dropping!

      even though it was expected

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      • VJ
        Moderator
        • Mar 2001
        • 9733

        #4
        This is still one of the feats I find both disturbing and amazing, offering huge future potential:



        Grow a brain in a petri dish, hook it up, and let it learn how to fly a simulator...
        (that news is over 3 years old... wonder what else the came up with....)

        Jörg
        pixar
        Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. (James Dean)

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        • Dr Mordrid
          Moderator
          • Apr 2001
          • 26592

          #5
          Yup....the whole area of "living computational device" equipped robots is a bit creepy. Kinda reminds me of RoboCop 2 where the crooks brain was put into the combat robot.

          I also find Ted Bergers work at USC on an artificial hippocampus interesting. The hippocampus is involved in long term memory and is one of the regions that goes whack in Alzheimer's. The implication is that a hippocampus prosthesis could partially restore those functions in Alzheimer's patients.
          Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 17 January 2008, 09:22.
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          An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

          I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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