SCIENCEEEE from August but w/e

[blasphemusfish]

Rat Brained Robots?"AFTER buttoning up a lab coat, snapping on surgical gloves and spraying them with alcohol, I am deemed sanitary enough to view a robot's control system up close. Without such precautions, any fungal spores on my skin could infect it. "We've had that happen. They just stop working and die off," says Mark Hammond, the system's

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[blasphemusfish]

"I want a yogurt drop, Dave."

[blasphemusfish]

Oh god bigdog is awesome and terrifying.

Rats don't usually go for wheels though :o they're usually too intelligent to play with them for a long period of time.

[onyxsolare]

I, for one, welcome our new rat neuron overlords.

[trompelol]

On one hand, I am going "SCIENCE FUCK YEAH!" but on the other I am also imagining an outcome similar Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[scythemantis]

They don't mean the material literally, physically "bursts" when bored, they're talking about its electrical signals flaring up. A "mental" burst :)

[jle]