Coming in 2015: Electronic Bee Brains Uploaded into Robot Insects
And coming in 2016: robot overlords taking over the planet!
October 5, 2012 - 12:39 pm
via New project aims to upload a honey bees brain into a flying insectobot by 2015.
Every once in a while, theres news which reminds us that were living in the age of accelerating change. This is one of those times: A new project has been announced in which scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex are hoping to create the first accurate computer simulation of a honey bee brain — and then upload it into an autonomous flying robot.
This is obviously a huge win for science — but it could also save the world. The researchers hope a robotic insect could supplement or replace the shrinking population of honey bees that pollinate essential plant life.
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And next it will be a falcon brain uploaded into an unmanned fighter jet.
Seems bits of a rat brain might suffice: http://news.discovery.com/tech/brain-dish-flies-plane-041022.html. I for one welcome my new Cylon overlords!