{"id":24182,"date":"2016-04-01T10:46:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T17:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/researchers-have-worked-out-how-to-mind-control-cockroaches"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:04:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:04:07","slug":"researchers-have-worked-out-how-to-mind-control-cockroaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/researchers-have-worked-out-how-to-mind-control-cockroaches","title":{"rendered":"Researchers have worked out how to mind control cockroaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-have-worked-out-how-to-mind-control-cockroaches.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a video presented at IEEE Robotics and Automation Society\u2019s annual conference, Chinese engineering students guide a living cockroach along S-shaped and Z-shaped paths using brain-to-brain interface: a bluetooth electroencephalogram (EEG) headset, translated and wirelessly sent to an electronic backpack receiver attached to the cockroach. The electrical impulses then stimulated the antennae nerves of the cockroach through a microelectrode implanted into its head. Watch the video released:<\/p>\n<p>(Announced 16 June 2015 but only just came to our attention. And no, this is not April Fools post.) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-managed-mind-control-cockroaches\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-managed-mind-control-cockroaches<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video presented at IEEE Robotics and Automation Society\u2019s annual conference, Chinese engineering students guide a living cockroach along S-shaped and Z-shaped paths using brain-to-brain interface: a bluetooth electroencephalogram (EEG) headset, translated and wirelessly sent to an electronic backpack receiver attached to the cockroach. The electrical impulses then stimulated the antennae nerves of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24182","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\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67851,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24182\/revisions\/67851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}