Step aside Futurama, scientist build robot that’s controlled by a brain in a jar

>Living brain cells wired into a biocomputer could be the future of how robots learn to move.

>Research teams from Tianjin University and Southern University of Science and Technology have controlled the tracking, grasping and obstacle avoidance of a robot via what is known as a ‘mini-brain’.

>This, of course, isn’t a real brain pulled from a human body. Cultured in vitro, these brains are created for the purpose of research – and, apparently, for integration into robots.

>To control the robot, the researchers used the organism to make a so-called ‘brain-on-chip’. While the brain has some of the intelligent functions of a biological brain, it needs a bit of assistance.

>The chip is added to the brain to allow the scientists to debug it, send signals to the outside world and thereby achieve specific functions, such as controlling the robot’s grabbing ability.

>”The brain-computer interface on a chip is a technology that uses an in vitro cultured ‘brain’ (such as brain organoids) coupled with an electrode chip to achieve information interaction with the outside world through encoding and decoding and stimulation-feedback,” said Prof Ming Dong, vice president of Tianjin University.

Unpopular opinion, I’m sure, but i.find this to be twisted and evil.