Scientists Put the Brain of a Worm Into a Robot… and It MOVED
This robot contains the digitized brain of a worm, and without any outside input it just... works! Here's what this could mean for the future of AI. This Is How Your Brain Powers Your Thoughts...
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Worms. They’re weird, primitive creatures that seem to just squirm around senselessly. BUT this simplistic behavior is exactly what we are looking for in our endeavours to digitize a living brain. Now look at this. This..this looks like a robot being controlled by an ewok. But actually, this robot isn’t being controlled AT ALL. What you are looking at is a copy of the brain of a Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans. This is the digital brain of a worm ON a computer chip IN a lego robot. This little guy is a simulated brain navigating on its own. Well, navigating the best way a wormbot can. The scientists put sensors on their robots “noses” and “tails”so if they meet a wall, they know to turn around. Just like the C.elegans. But, as simpl...
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Worms. They’re weird, primitive creatures that seem to just squirm around senselessly. BUT this simplistic behavior is exactly what we are looking for in our endeavours to digitize a living brain. Now look at this. This..this looks like a robot being controlled by an ewok. But actually, this robot isn’t being controlled AT ALL. What you are looking at is a copy of the brain of a Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans. This is the digital brain of a worm ON a computer chip IN a lego robot. This little guy is a simulated brain navigating on its own. Well, navigating the best way a wormbot can. The scientists put sensors on their robots “noses” and “tails”so if they meet a wall, they know to turn around. Just like the C.elegans. But, as simpl...
