{"id":240529,"date":"2026-07-09T11:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-used-post-mortem-brain-tissue-to-control-a-robot"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:03:10","slug":"scientists-used-post-mortem-brain-tissue-to-control-a-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-used-post-mortem-brain-tissue-to-control-a-robot","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Used Post-Mortem Brain Tissue to Control a Robot"},"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\/i2YQUXykYM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Further reading.<\/p>\n<p>Thumbnail image credit: Paper cited in video.<\/p>\n<p>Unsupervised sensory-motor associative learning by human brain explant in-a-dish enables movement imitation by robot.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchsquare.com\/articl\">https:\/\/www.researchsquare.com\/articl<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The lab.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"XYoeRdCDeq\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lirmm.fr\/lirmm-en\/\">LIRMM<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00ab\u00a0LIRMM\u00a0\u00bb \u2014 LIRMM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lirmm.fr\/lirmm-en\/embed\/#?secret=JSg4wEg7yk#?secret=XYoeRdCDeq\" data-secret=\"XYoeRdCDeq\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Not alive. but not dea: disembodied human brains used for drug testing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/artic\">https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/artic<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>#science #brain #technology #news #explained<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-used-post-mortem-brain-tissue-to-control-a-robot\">Continue reading \u201cScientists Used Post-Mortem Brain Tissue to Control a Robot\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further reading. Thumbnail image credit: Paper cited in video. Unsupervised sensory-motor associative learning by human brain explant in-a-dish enables movement imitation by robot. https:\/\/www.researchsquare.com\/articl\u2026 The lab. LIRMM Not alive. but not dea: disembodied human brains used for drug testing. https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/artic\u2026 #science #brain #technology #news #explained Continue reading \u201cScientists Used Post-Mortem Brain Tissue to Control a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240529","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=240529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}