{"id":106341,"date":"2020-05-01T13:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-put-the-brain-of-a-worm-into-a-robot-and-it-moved"},"modified":"2020-05-01T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:08:17","slug":"scientists-put-the-brain-of-a-worm-into-a-robot-and-it-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-put-the-brain-of-a-worm-into-a-robot-and-it-moved","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Put the Brain of a Worm Into a Robot\u2026 and It MOVED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eYS7UIUM_SQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This robot contains the digitized brain of a worm, and without any outside input it just\u2026 works! Here\u2019s what this could mean for the future of AI.<\/p>\n<p>This Is How Your Brain Powers Your Thoughts \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/yxUkUaV2VPs\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/yxUkUaV2VPs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thumbnail image courtesy of OpenWorm, Wormbase, and Caltech.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists Put a Worm Brain in a Lego Robot Body \u2014 And It Worked<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-put-worm-brain-in-lego-robot-openworm-connectome\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-put-worm-brain-in-leg\u2026connectome<\/a><br \/> \u201cThe ultimate goal of the project was to completely replicate C. elegans as a virtual organism. But as an amazing starting point, they managed to simulate its brain, and then they uploaded that into a simple Lego robot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These Robots Merge Their Nervous Systems Into a Single Megabot<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/tech\/robotics\/these-robots-merge-their-nervous-systems-into-a-single-megabot\">https:\/\/www.seeker.com\/tech\/robotics\/these-robots-merge-thei\u2026le-megabot<\/a><br \/> \u201cA group of small robots have taken teamwork to the next level, physically connecting and merging their nervous systems to become a single megabot with one \u201cbrain.\u201d Researchers describe the robots and their \u201cmergeable nervous system\u201d in a paper published in the latest issue of Nature Communications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Will AI Destroy All Humans, or Help Us Build a Better Future?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-put-the-brain-of-a-worm-into-a-robot-and-it-moved\">Continue reading \u201cScientists Put the Brain of a Worm Into a Robot\u2026 and It MOVED\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This robot contains the digitized brain of a worm, and without any outside input it just\u2026 works! Here\u2019s what this could mean for the future of AI. This Is How Your Brain Powers Your Thoughts \u2014 https:\/\/youtu.be\/yxUkUaV2VPs Thumbnail image courtesy of OpenWorm, Wormbase, and Caltech. Scientists Put a Worm Brain in a Lego Robot Body [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}