A ‘Frankenrobot’ with a biological brain

PARIS (AFP) - Meet Gordon, probably the world’s first robot controlled exclusively by living brain tissue.Stitched together from cultured rat neurons, Gordon’s primitive grey matter was designed at the University of Reading by scientists who unveiled the neuron-powered machine on Wednesday.Related article: ‘Brain’ in a dish flies flight simulatorTheir groundbreaking experiments explore the vanishing boundary [...] continue reading the breaking news