{"id":192998,"date":"2024-07-15T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/scientists-build-a-robot-controlled-by-human-brain-tissue"},"modified":"2024-07-15T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T20:27:07","slug":"scientists-build-a-robot-controlled-by-human-brain-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/scientists-build-a-robot-controlled-by-human-brain-tissue","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Build a Robot Controlled by Human Brain Tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-build-a-robot-controlled-by-human-brain-tissue2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gerard Johnstone and Akela Cooper\u2019s 2022 sci-fi horror <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/topic\/m3gan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>M3GAN<\/em><\/a> (streaming now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/asset\/movies\/m3gan\/f5dac84c-3950-3bb8-a35b-638f0b8a886a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Peacock<\/a>) follows the tragic childhood of Cady, a young girl whose parents are killed in a car accident. In the aftermath, Cady goes to live with her Aunt Gemma, a roboticist who has invented the Model 3 Generative Android, M3GAN for short.<\/p>\n<p>M3GAN is a child-sized anthropomorphic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/topic\/robots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">robot<\/a> with human level intelligence, designed to be the perfect friend. M3GAN\u2019s primary directive is to keep Cady safe and happy, and it\u2019s a job she executes with deadly seriousness. In the real world, scientists in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/topic\/china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China<\/a> recently crafted a less deadly but equally spine-tingling intelligent robot controlled not by a person or by programming, but by a spheroid blob of human <a href=\"https:\/\/www.syfy.com\/syfy-wire\/topic\/brains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">brain<\/a> tissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Johnstone and Akela Cooper\u2019s 2022 sci-fi horror M3GAN (streaming now on Peacock) follows the tragic childhood of Cady, a young girl whose parents are killed in a car accident. In the aftermath, Cady goes to live with her Aunt Gemma, a roboticist who has invented the Model 3 Generative Android, M3GAN for short. M3GAN [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192998","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}