Video: A collection of 300,000 rat neurons stops this robot bumping into thing (Footage courtesy Reading University, UK)
(Image: Diem Photography/University of Reading)
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 creator.
This is no ordinary robot control system – a plain…
