Worm ‘Brain’ Uploaded Into Lego Robot | Singularity HUB
▻http://singularityhub.com/2014/12/15/worm-brain-simulation-drives-lego-robot
The worm’s brain contains 302 neurons and 7,000 synapses. The human brain, in comparison, has 86 billion neurons and 100 trillion synapses. Whether we’ll ever fully map the human brain (or should) is a hotly debated topic.
But since we’ve already mapped the C. elegans connectome—the researchers at OpenWorm thought they’d feed it stimuli using a few external sensors and give it a robotic body to carry out whatever motor instructions the brain provided.
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The fascinating thing? The robot behaves much like a real worm would, given similar sensory stimulation—tripping the nose sensor halts forward progress, touching the front and rear sensors makes the robot move forward and back.
#transhumanisme #it_has_begun en tout cas pour les vers
