If Life's A Rat Race, Now We Can Steer

Hartford Courant ^ | May 2 2002 | Combined Wire Services

[2Trievers]

Transmitting wireless signals directly into the brain, a group of scientists has produced the ultimate lab rat - an animal that can be guided by remote control over fences, up trees, through pipes and across rubble at distances of up to a third of a mile.

In effect, they have transformed a living animal into a robot.

The researchers, from the State University of New York and Drexel University, say their work with brain implants ultimately could produce controlled rats that could be used for rescue missions, video surveillance or detecting explosives such as land mines.

[BobP]

Remotely piloted rats.... Uhmmmm....

Where's the cheese?

[ghostcat]

I wonder if they can also control hunger pangs. imagine the ultimate Diet where you can lose weight without a twing of hunger.

[2Trievers]