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RANDY SHAW: Brain Tissue Powers Machine "Frankenbot"

4:41 PM Fri, Jan 23, 2009 |

The news release from the University of Reading shockingly unveils what may be the first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue.

Primitive gray matter is stitched together out of cultured neurons from a rat's brain. Neurons are the cells that relay information across the brain via chemicals called neurotransmitters.

These specialized nerve cells are then laid out in a nutrient-rich medium across a five-by-...